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1. Knowledge of the form
Culture can be understood not only as special institutions, objects, and specific actions, but also as social practices. For theoretical explanations, this presents a dual challenge: alongside the insights of various scientific disciplines, the cultural specificity of one's own research perspective must always be reflected upon. The contributors to this volume analyze the relevant formative conditions of cultural practices from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, linguistics, musicology, and movement science. In doing so, they clarify what prerequisites should be in place for the formation of cultural theory.
2. Expanded Choreographies-Choreographic Histories
Anna Leon is a dance historian and theorist based in Vienna. She is theory curator at Tanzquartier Wien and postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she researches peripheralised dance modernities through a focus on ballet in early 20th century Greece. She holds a BSc from the University of Bristol, an MA from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a PhD from the University of Salzburg. Her first book, Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories. Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion was published in 2022 by transcript. She is curatorially engaged in the ongoing projects Radio (non-)conference with Netta Weiser and Choreography+ with Johanna Hilari. She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Bern as well as SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and the Institut Français. She occasionally collaborates, as a dramaturg or historiographic adviser, with choreographers including Julia Schwarzbach, Florentina Holzinger and Netta Weiser.
3. Democratic Citizenship in Flux
Traditionally, citizenship has been defined as the legal and political link between individuals and their democratic political community. However, traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are currently challenged by various developments like migration, the rise of populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and the challenging of representative democracy as well as developments in digital communication technology. Against this background, this peer reviewed book reflects recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, economics, law, and history.
4. Poetic Resurrection
While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
5. Fresh fruit, broken bodies
Winner of several awards in English and now finally available in German, Seth M. Holmes offers an in-depth examination of the daily lives and suffering of Mexican migrants who work in modern US agriculture as harvest workers. The anthropologist and physician shows how health and health care suffer due to the dark side of consumer society, resentment against immigrants and racism. Holmes' material is harrowing and powerful: he and his companions trekked illegally through the desert to Arizona and were detained with them until they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labour camps in the USA, grew corn and strawberries and accompanied sick workers to hospitals. This embodied anthropology deepens our theoretical understanding of how quickly social inequalities in society - and especially in health care - are perceived as normal and natural.
6. Sexualised Nazis
Sexualised Nazi figures are part of a continually expanding cultural repertoire of images used in (audio-)visual representations of National Socialism and the Shoah. Julia Noah Munier traces this pattern, which has been neglected in research until now, back to the 1930s and shows how it has been used again and again after 1945 until today. She directs attention to a condensation of similarly structured figures across medial boundaries into specific patterns of interpretation. The focus is on the subjectivising effects of these patterns of representation, in which perpetrators of the Nazi regime and of Italian fascism appear as completely different, as deviant.
7. Dynamis
Since time immemorial, "dynamis" and "energeia" have formed what is probably the most dazzling pair of concepts in the history of philosophy: in their tense interplay, materialism and metaphysics, capability and realisation come together. But can they also be understood as historical-political categories? As such, it is precisely the turning points and differences in their conceptual history that reveal a change in historical thinking and new possibilities for political action. From Aristotle to Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida, Nassima Sahraoui shows in her penetrating reading that a new understanding of the ancient "dynamis" is more current and necessary than ever, because it holds a critical potential through which moments of freedom are made possible for us and our thinking, also and especially today.
8. Musik ausstellen
"With its reflective descriptions of exhibition concepts, the colourfully illustrated synopsis of numerous examples, the presentation of state-of-the-art possibilities for interaction and participation, as well as the contributions on diverse genres and the recording of reception experiences in the museum, this volume [offers] a valuable practical report for (future) museum curators:The book is a valuable practical report for (future) museum curators and for people interested in a wide range of artistic disciplines."Martina Kalser-Gruber, neuesmuseum, 1 (2022) "A comprehensive overview of this museum genre. Anyone planning an exhibition on music-related topics themselves will find a compilation of the status quo." museum heute, 60 (2021) Reviewed in: https://muwimuc.hypotheses.org, 30.07.2021, Anna Schamberger.
Reference books
EUR38,–
Musik ausstellen
German, Andreas Meyer, María Del Mar Alonso Amat, Elisabeth Magesacher, 2021
9. Gesundheit in der Postmoderne
In a new postmodern and transdisciplinary understanding of public health, the previously defined boundaries of the discipline are seen as ones that proliferate, invite crossing, and constantly assign themselves a new expiration date. The narrow framework that is artificially imposed around the currently very modest spectrum of subjects unnecessarily restricts the view of health. In doing so, it even obstructs the universally required concern for the health of the population, as called for by the WHO in 1986. In an innovative initiative, the contributors gather those disciplines that have so far not been adequately considered in health science discussions. In this way, they open the academic discourse and provide a glimpse into a health science without borders.
Reference books
EUR44,–
Gesundheit in der Postmoderne
German, Sandraua, Eckart/Bruns, KurtW/Altenmüller, 2025
10. The Production of Consumer Society
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic system of society and analyses their encounters. Rigorously derived, the approach casts fresh light on the cultural and social evolution as well as the business models of the consumer industry. It provides a coherent interdisciplinary access to the aesthetic turn of society that has so far been treated with contradictory paradigms.
