Publications
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Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia An Introductory Reader
(2019)
In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that ...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
(2019)
The everyday use of texts in the ancient world relates in many ways to contemporary practice. Besides inscribed artifacts, the self-reflection of Greek and Roman authors demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ...
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
(2019)
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The ...
Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe
(2019)
Dress constitutes one of the most obvious and indeed most visual and visible markers of difference. Being very close to the body it becomes part of the daily habitus and an unavoidable means of communication with others. ...
COMPANY
(2019-11)
The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise.
In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search ...
Holocaust Denial
(2012-09-14)
Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist ...
Fictionalizing heterodoxy Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán
(2019)
The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of ...
Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious
(2012-04-16)
In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant`s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. ...
Schauplatz Archiv Objekt – Narrativ – Performanz
(2019)
While archives have traditionally attracted little publicity, this situation is in flux: things that were hidden away – from precious objects to curiosities – are now being made available not only to scholars but to a ...