Änne Söll

Petra Löffler

Antje Krause-Wahl

Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and excess. Since the early twentieth century the mass production, dissemination and popularization of synthetic materials that produce heretofore-unknown effects of shine have increased. At the same time, shine is subjectified as “glamor” and made into a token of performative self-empowerment. The volume illuminates genealogical as well as systematic relationships between material phenomena of shine and cultural-philosophical concepts of appearance, illusion, distraction and glare in bringing together renowned scholars from various disciplines.

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

Joanna Barck

Gesichter des Films

Réka Patrícia Gál

Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times offers a critical exploration of the Anthropocene concept. It addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch. How are we to rethink landscapes, such as river deltas, oceans, or outer space? How can we create spaces for resistance and utopic dreaming? This volume confronts these questions by charting how space and place are constructed, deconstructed, and negotiated by humans and non-humans under conditions of globally entangled consumption, movement, and contamination. The essays in this volume are complemented by artistic interventions that offer a poetics for a harmed planet and the numerous worlds it contains. Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times is part of the series Future Ecologies dedicated to rethink the multiple ecologies that flourish and struggle on Earth and beyond.

Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times

Leander Scholz

Das Gesicht ist eine starke Organisation

Winfried Gerling

Susanne Holschbach

Digitale Fotografien sind allgegenwärtig: Sie werden täglich milliardenfach erzeugt, verbreitet, kommentiert und gespeichert. Im Zusammenspiel mit digitalen Technologien und sozialen Netzwerken sind Praktiken entstanden, die Produktion und Rezeption, Distribution und Archivierung fotografischer Bilder radikal verändert haben. Sie werden dabei ebenso von ihren Prosumer/innen verteilt, geordnet und bewertet wie von Maschinen, Software und Algorithmen. Wie verschieben sich dadurch fotografische Konzepte von Autorschaft, Referenz und Relevanz? Welche Ästhetiken, Wissensordnungen und Archive entstehen in digitalen Kulturen? Dieser Band erschließt erstmals systematisch die neuen Technologien und kulturellen Praktiken, durch die fotografische Bilder gegenwärtig verteilt und wirksam werden.

Fotografische Praktiken in der digitalen Kultur

Bilder verteilen

Petra Löffler

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