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Aby Warburg und Georges Bataille
Aby Warburg und Georges Bataille

Michel Mettler (Hg.), Basil Rogger (Hg.), ...

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1929 ist ein reiches Jahr in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Spannungsfelder der Globalisierung in der Kultur zeigen sich darin wie in einem Prisma: 
Bronislaw Malinowski veröffentlicht seine Untersuchung über die Trobriand-
Indianer, Ernst Jünger »Das abenteuerliche Herz«, Kurt Kläber sein 
pazifistisches Manifest »Krieg«, Robert Byron »The Byzantine Achieve­ment«, Erika Mann zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Klaus »Rundherum. Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise«, Winston Churchill den vierten Band von »The World Crisis«. Kemal Atatürk gibt eine türkische Version des Korans in Auftrag, die Londoner...
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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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Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

Mário Gomes

Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

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Political Reflections on Choreography, Dance and Protest

Political Reflections on Choreography, Dance and Protest


Oliver Marchart

Dancing Politics

The human body is the most important medium through which a public space is curved out of the social. Of course, this does not always have to occur in form of a militarized collective marching in-sync through the streets. Very often it is precisely the vulnerability of bodies which is used as a ­performative medium of protest (up to the extreme point where people decide to publicly set themselves on fire). Taking this word of caution into account, we may...
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Courbets Gesicht, erfunden von Baudelaire

Michael F. Zimmermann

Courbets Gesicht, erfunden von Baudelaire

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60 Billiarden Moleküle

Thomas Huber

60 Billiarden Moleküle

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