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The Scandal of Self-contradiction
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was both a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as an intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities and positions. Early on he looked to Africa and Asia for possible alternatives to the hegemony of Western Neocapitalism and Consumerism, and in his hands the Greek and Judeo-Christian Classics morphed into unsettling multistable figures constantly shifting between West and East, North and South, the present and the past, rationality and myth, identity and otherness. The contributions in this volume, which belong to different intellectual and disciplinary fields, are bound together by a fascination for Pasolini's ability to recognize contradictions, to intensify and multiply them, as well as to make them aesthetically and politically productive. What emerges is a "euro-eccentric" and multifaceted Pasolini of great interest for the present.
The Case for Reduction
Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today. This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?
Weathering
Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?
Albrecht Dürer
"A comprehensive catalogue covering all aspects of Albrecht Dürer’s extensive oeuvre has been published in conjunction with the exhibition. As a means of elucidating the suspenseful interplay between Dürer and his contemporaries, the catalogue places Dürer’s works in their historical context and deliberately juxtaposes them with works by artists of the same period. The reader thus gains very direct insight into the superior technical mastery as well as the intensity of Dürer’s art."--Publisher's description.
Breaking and Making Models
Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.
Erfolgsfaktoren von Online-Dating-Plattformen
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medienökonomie, -management, Note: 1,4, Universität der Künste Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Buchhandel findet sich zahlreich Ratgeberliteratur für Nutzer von Online-Dating-Plattformen (ODP). Schon jeder fünfte in Deutschland hat neue Kontakte im Internet geschlossen. Diese Tatsachen sprechen zum einen für die Validität des Geschäftsmodells ‚Online-Dating’ und zum anderen für eine Entwicklung der Online-Dating-Plattformen (ODPs) zu einem freizeitlichen Aufenthaltsort oder sogar zur „Ersatzkneipe im Netz“ für fast 70% der Bundesbürger, die einen Internetanschluss zur Verfügung haben. Diese ‚E...
