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Operatic Pasticcios in Eighteenth–Century Europe – Contexts, Materials, and Aesthetics
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of …
Unlocking Luhmann – A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory
Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high …
Functional Differentiation of Society
The radical novelty of modern society consists of the global autonomy and dynamics of communication systems such as the economy, polity, science, law, health, the arts, sport, and …
Shifts in Mapping
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to …
Art and Economics in the City – New Cultural Maps
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the …
Urban Appropriation Strategies – Exploring Space–Making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes
In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those …
Germany 1916-23
During the last four decades the German Revolution 1918/19 has only attracted little scholarly attention. This volume offers new cultural historical perspectives, puts this …
Understanding the Rights of Nature
Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But …
Translocations – Histories of Dislocated Cultural Assets
Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution? Discussions …
Germany's Conscience – Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism
Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not only crucial to our time, they were …
Thinking the Problematic – Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences
The notion of "the problematic" has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic …
Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the …