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...