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

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 ...

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 ...