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From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious
What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage. Instead one finds Rostropovich playing Bach at Checkpoint Charlie; or Bernstein changing “Joy” to “Freedom” in Beethoven’s Ninth; or David Hasselhoff lip-synching “Looking for Freedom” to thousands on New Year’s Eve. But if such spectacles claim to master their historical moment, New Music unconsciously takes the role of analyst. In so doing, it restages earlier scenes of modernism. As world politics witnesses a turning away from the possibility of revolution, musical modernism revolves in place, performing century-old tasks of losing, failing, and beginning again, in preparation for a revolution to come.
Critical Ecologies
Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers--Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, among others--by applying them to contemporary environmental crises. Critical Ecologies argues that sustainability and critical social theory have many similar goals, including resistance to different forms of domination. Like the Frankfurt School itself, the essays in this volume reflect a spirit of interdisciplinarity and draw attention to intersections between environmental, socio-political, and philosophical issues. Offering textual analyses by leading scholars in both critical theory and environmental politics, Critical Ecologies underscores the continued relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas for addressing contemporary issues.
Envisioning Sustainabilities
This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’ in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster studies. As such, this is a book which ultimately argues for the value of the social sciences in considering one of the more urgent and complex topics of our time – that of sustainability.
Deutsch Als Fremdsprache
To initiate its new Ph.D. Program in Transcultural German Studies, jointly offered by the University of Arizona and the University of Leipzig, the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona organized an international conference on Transcultural German Studies in Tucson from March 29-31, 2007. Conference participants sought to define the nature of Transcultural German Studies. This new, interdisciplinary field of inquiry investigates the cultural landscapes of the German-speaking world in the light of globalization and inter- and transcultural contact. The contributions that comprise the volume are by scholars who work in a number of related fields, exploring transcultural phen...
Descendants of William and Margaret Archibald Turk
Descendants located in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas and elsewhere.
The Ben Horch Story
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Keine Gesellschaft ohne Natur
Die Beziehungen zwischen Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Interessen und Bedürfnissen, technisierten Gesellschaften und der Natur bilden einen globalen Krisenzusammenhang. Was zeichnet diese Bedürfnisse aus und warum haben sich die Verhältnisse weltweit so verändert, dass inzwischen von einer neuen geologischen Epoche gesprochen wird, dem Anthropozän? Der Autor fragt, wie die Wissenschaft ihre Erkenntnisblockaden überwinden kann, um die krisenhaften Beziehungen zu begreifen und praktisch gestalten zu können. Aus dieser Perspektive skizziert er einen Weg in ein neues transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld – und begründet darin das Programm einer Sozialen Ökologie als kritischer Wissenschaft von den gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen.
