Christian Kühne

Mario Schmidt

Hannes Spieth

Christian Haubach

The book presents about 100 current examples of how energy and materials can be saved in manufacturing companies. They serve to show which measures can be used in modern companies to exploit the potential for resource efficiency. The book is aimed at practitioners in companies and consulting firms, but is also suitable for the university sector as a practical introduction to the topic of resource efficiency. The materials used account for almost 43 percent of the costs of an average industrial company in Germany. Personnel costs, on the other hand, are only 22 percent, while energy costs are as low as 2 percent. If a company wants to save costs, above all it must consider the use of materials and produce in a resource-efficient manner. This simultaneously relieves the environment and reduces dependence on scarce raw materials. The implementation of resource efficiency is not easy. There are indeed numerous starting points in production, often in process innovations or in product development. However, only a few companies publish their measures and savings potentials. In practice, this means that there are often no learning examples in practice, but some of them are explicitly listed in this work. As you can see, resource efficiency in production and products can also be seen as a success factor for many companies. In the project 100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management, committed companies from Baden-Wuerttemberg are showing their solutions. The project was carried out by a competent team from the Pforzheim University and the State Agency for Environmental Technology. Leading trade associations in Baden-Württemberg have supported it.

Best practice cases from producing companies

100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management

Sandy Ross

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Money Counts

Johannes F.M. Schick

Martin Zillinger

By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

The Social Origins of Thought

Ulrich van Loyen

Die Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften dient als kritisches Medium für Diskussionen über »Kultur«, die Kulturwissenschaften und deren methodische Verfahren. Ausgehend vom internationalen Stand der Forschung sollen kulturelle Phänomene gleichermaßen empirisch konzis wie theoretisch avanciert betrachtet werden. Auch jüngste Wechselwirkungen von Human- und Naturwissenschaften werden reflektiert. Dieses Heft widmet sich der wirkmächtigen Debatte um den »Homo Faber«. Lebhaft in der französischen Archäologie und Anthropologie diskutiert, ist die Diskussion um den Anteil des Sozialen und des Technischen am sich selbst hervorbringenden und reflektierenden Menschen heute weitgehend vergessen. Zum ersten Mal werden in dieser Ausgabe der ZfK zentrale Texte der französischen Technikanthropologie einer deutschsprachigen Leserschaft vorgestellt und in den Beiträgen die Lehren dieser Auseinandersetzung für eine Anthropologie der Technik und der Medien reflektiert - auch im Hinblick auf die rezenten Fragestellungen der Science-and-Technology-Studies. Die Debatte reflektiert den Streit um das Firmenlogo des Mainzer Dachdeckerbetriebs Neger. Mit Beiträgen von Guillaume Carnino, Marcel Mauss, Francois Sigaut und Erhard Schüttpelz.

Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften

Homo Faber

Mario Schmidt

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