Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market a...

As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doin...

What can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on – or even unsettle – existing a...

Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectiv...

Technologies designed to »assist« users with and without disabilities, such as computer interfaces, act as mediators of barriers in Digital Culture...

How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler...

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through mult...

We live in a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs...

Post-digital art suggests a form of embodiment of digital technologies that unfolds in physical space through hands-on material approaches, and eve...

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of c...

In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of au...

Autosociobiography, a term coined by nobel-prize winner Annie Ernaux, is recognized as a productive literary phenomenon at the intersection of lite...

Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed »movement systems«, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-à-vis th...

Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-qual...

Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an a...

High-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthink...

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Bauma...

Why do young Israelis choose to come to Berlin and how does this impact Jewish life? With this ethnography, Vanessa Rau provides a captivating port...

In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the premises for and consequences of a major change in his compositional practice: this change...

How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge?Based on regionally and th...

In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I a...

Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the ...

The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movem...

How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? To explore this matter, Ra...

Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings t...

This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of na...

In many countries, the political backlash against neoliberalism has mainly been a retreat from democracy, with a decline in independence of the jud...

How do artificial neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence interfere with methods and practices in the sciences? Which interdisci...

Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural produc...

Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual ...

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? The recent developments in AI present a timely opportunity to look at the concept of literary translat...

We witness an era with more screens than ever before, and within each screen, a multitude of visual varieties. Lisa Gotto investigates this medial ...

In the face of climate change, the destruction of biodiversity or genetic experimentation, Bio Art appears as a form that is most directly grapplin...

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles – biohacking...

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Br...

Contemporary Afro-diasporic post-cinematic practices should be considered to be genealogically linked with those established in militant African ci...

Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into...

What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autob...

Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. ...

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And y...

Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical r...

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The fa...

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in...

Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of b...

This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late i...

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses...

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment...