Archiv für Dezember 2018

From Smart City to Urban Digi-Doomsaying

Creating a counterpoint to commonplace imaginaries of the smart city as a utopian space where all prob-lems are solved through digital optimization of the socio-cultural status-quo, Dani Ploeger’s public artwork Post-Apocalypse Smart City Lagoon uses an icon of smart city ideology – the QR code – to invoke visions beyond the impending catastrophe of techno-consumer culture. Drawing from Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of enlightened doomsaying, QR codes on public trash cans across Venice lead to immersive digital videos that show the Venetian Lagoon after the water has risen and only floating trash cans remain.

Book review

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Small states and the ‘throughput’ legitimacy of international organizations

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Open Spaces in Time: Kairos as Design for Rebuilding Memory Sites

Amphibia, the 2012 proposal by AGC Concepts Architects to repurpose the site of the former Tejas Verdes prison camp in Chile, is a hybrid and fluid memorial space that allows for a kairotic ecoethics in the country’s postdictatorial landscape.

The Transnational Activities of German Trade Unions and Works Councils: From Foreign Policy to Active Engagement

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The Transnational Activities of German Trade Unions and Works Councils: From Foreign Policy to Active Engagement

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Holocaustleugnung auf der Bühne

#Antisemitismus

Aufmärsche der extremen Rechten in Chemnitz, bei denen der Hitlergruß gezeigt wird. RechtsRock-Konzerte, bei denen das Publikum unter »Heil«-Rufen den rechten Arm reckt. Nicht nur in der Anonymität des Internets bekennen sich Rechte zum Nationalsozialismus; die Hemmschwelle, das auch in der Öffentlichkeit mit Gesten und Worten zu machen, scheint zu sinken.

Der Beitrag Holocaustleugnung auf der Bühne erschien zuerst auf der rechte rand.

The legacy of Cold War anti-racism: a genealogy of cultural distance in the internationalisation of higher education

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Legacies of empire: from the “religions of China” to the “Confucian heritage” learner

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Transnationalising American progressivism and emancipation: Frances B. Johnston and progressive education at the 1900 Paris universal exposition

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