Jussi Parikka

Wolfgang Ernst

"Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist's work, brings together essays that present Wolfgang Ernst's controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society."--pub. desc.

Digital Memory and the Archive

David Fox

Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American common law legal systems from the High Middle Ages up to the middle of the 20th century. Weaving a detailed tapestry of the changing concepts of money and private transactions throughout the ages, the contributors investigate the special contribution made by legal scholars and practitioners to our understanding of money and the laws that govern it. Divided in five parts, the book begins with the coin currency of the Middle Ages, moving through the invention of nominalism in the early modern period to cashless payment and the rise of the banking system and paper money, then charting the progression to fiat money in the modern era. Each part commences with an overview of the monetary environment for the historical period written by an economic historian or numismatist. These are followed by chapters describing the legal doctrines of each period in civil and common law. Each section contains examples of contemporary litigation or statute law which engages with the distinctive issues affecting the monetary law of the period. This interdisciplinary approach reveals the distinctive conception of money prevalent in each period, which either facilitated or hampered the implementation of economic policy and the operation of private transactions.

Middle Ages to Bretton Woods

Money in the Western Legal Tradition

An examination of the legal responses across Western Europe to the problems of rail and road accidents from 1850-2000.

The Development of Traffic Liability

Die Studentin Sophie aus Deutschland möchte zusammen mit ihrem englischen Freund Patrick, den sie während des Austauschstudiums an der Londoner Metropolitan University kennengelernt hat, einen sorglosen Urlaub an der Ostküste Australiens verbringen. Im Hotel werden beide von einem Reiseverkäufer angesprochen, ob sie nicht Lust hätten, einen zweitägigen Ausflug nach Papua Neuguinea zu unternehmen. Was sie nicht ahnen: Die Reise ist eine raffiniert ausgeklügelte Falle. Schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft geraten sie in die Fänge einer illegal operierenden Bande, die in der Abgeschiedenheit des tiefen Dschungels unglaubliche Verbrechen verübt. Für Sophie beginnt ein Kampf ums Überleben, der kaum Aussicht auf Erfolg verspricht. Wird es Detective Inspector Ritphat von der englischen Polizei zusammen mit seinem australischen Berufskollegen gelingen, den Fall zu lösen? Und auch als DI Ritphat persönlich nach Papua Neuguinea reist und sich mit der Polizei in Port Moresby verbündet, ist der Erfolg keineswegs sicher.

Wolfgang Ernst

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