Curating the Future

Curating the Future
Author: Jennifer Newell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317217969

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change. Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming. There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.

The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa

The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa
Author: Yvonne Zivkovic
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1640140883

Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction
Author: Lars Schmeink
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030959635

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and local—the genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germany’s reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses.

Writing the Good Fight

Writing the Good Fight
Author: Peter Monteath
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A detailed re-examination of the literature of the Spanish Civil War era.

Contemporary German Fiction Writers

Contemporary German Fiction Writers
Author: Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on West German, East German and Swiss-German authors who experienced Nazi rule and World War II as adults. Entries examine these writers coming to terms with the experience of fascism, and how they were often the conscience of a society that wasinclined to forget it recent past. The lives and works of these writers provide an insight not only into German literature but also into several decades of German history.

The Tonearm

The Tonearm
Author: Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1917
Genre:
ISBN:

On Desire

On Desire
Author: Bernd Kracke
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839442850

Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships to the social body, to sexuality and gender questions, to ownership, and to the production, perception, and appropriation of moving images. This book brings together a broad spectrum of international positions relating to the time-based, immersive arts presented at the third B3 - the Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt/Main 2017 - which focuses on desire in the contemporary world. An extensive essay by Marc Ries develops a theoretical framework relating the moving image to desire. Contributions by Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic, and Frederico Solmi. Desire/Begehren benennt Phänomene, die in eine produktive Ambivalenz eingeschrieben sind. Sie assoziieren Grundelemente menschlichen Zusammenlebens, verweisen aber zugleich auf komplexe gesellschaftliche Prozesse und Institutionen. Mit den gegenwärtigen Medien erleben und erfahren wir ein Gefüge des Begehrens, das neue Verhältnisse zum sozialen Körper, zur Sexualität und Geschlechterfrage, zum Eigentum und auch zur Produktion, Wahrnehmung und Aneignung von Bewegtbildern entwirft. Der Band versammelt ein Spektrum an internationalen Positionen zeitbasierter und immersiver Künste der dritten B3 - Biennale des Bewegten Bildes Frankfurt/Main 2017 - zum Begehren in der Gegenwart. Ein umfassender Essay von Marc Ries entwickelt einen theoretischen Rahmen der Beziehung des bewegten Bildes zum Begehren. Beiträge von Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic und Frederico Solmi.