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The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization
The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Mathias Denecke (Hg.), Holger Kuhn (Hg.), ...

Liquidity, Flows, Circulation

Today, it has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity. These terms appear crucial for any description of our contemporary situation, whether in economics, media studies, or contemporary art. This book asks whether the preponderance of talk of flow, liquidity, and circulation is an expression of the cultural logic of today’s environmental capitalism.
  • Kulturkritik
  • Kapitalismus
  • Digitale Kultur
  • Digitale Medien
  • Kunst
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Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

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  • Afrika
  • Ritual
  • Kolonialismus
  • Zeremonie
  • Performance
  • Feminismus
  • Spiritismus
  • Körper

 

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Saturnaaaaalien
Saturnaaaaalien

Sina Dell’Anno

Oratio Soluta

Löwengleich ist Saturn in unser Denken eingegangen; als wilde Bestie der Revolution, im aufgerissenen Maul noch die Glieder eines halbverzehrten Kindes. Goyas Danton: das blutige Gesicht der unzähmbaren Angst, dass der menschliche Freiheitshunger außer Rand und Band geraten könnte. Im Aufreißen des Mauls kündigt sich ein aufbegehrender Appetit an. Diese Physiognomie der Revolution, bei Goya ins Fürchterliche gesteigert, begegnet uns bereits dort, wo Saturn noch nicht zur Fratze eines weltgeschichtlichen Ungeheuers erstarrt war, sondern als goldzeitalterliche Gottheit des Ackerbaus und Kulturstifter...
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  • Rom
  • Freiheit
  • Antike
  • Diskursgeschichte
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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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