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SEX CULTURE
What is sex? Or: why don't we just let it be?
by Bettina Stangneth
Above all else, and despite all the enlightenment of the age, sex in the 21st century seems to be a problem. Abuse, MeToo, human trafficking, circumcision, role-playing, body cult... But if sex is a mere abyss for modern humans, then why not just let it be? We are the first generation that could actually do it without endangering the survival of the species. And voices are getting louder that once again call for abstinence in a supposedly over-sexualised society. Artificial insemination and artificially intelligent technology for the safe removal of instincts should finally pacify what humans cannot control: instinctive nature. Sex is not the epitome of our animal nature. Every attempt to control the animal in us, either by taming it or by freeing it from tamers in a sexual revolution, inevitably misses the point. Bettina Stangneth asks the quite simple question: what is sex? If every culture of prohibition has failed so far, clearer ideas are obviously needed. Even if we prefer to ignore it, attempts to establish a culture through desire instead of the cultivation of desire have been around for a long time. After all, if you don't want to learn to talk positively about sex, you can't talk meaningfully about coercion and violence.
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January 1981Wirtschaftliche und außerwirtschaftliche Beweggründe mittelständischer Genossenschaftspioniere des landwirtschaftlichen Bereichs
am Beispiel von F. W. Raiffeisen und W. Haas. Zur Integration der Beweggründe in eine empirische Genossenschaftstheorie und in Theorien der Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik.
by Finis, Beate
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2026Tainted tools
New materialisms as a decolonial project
by Angela Last
Tainted Tools makes a provocative intervention into the fraught intersection between new materialist and decolonial approaches. Despite a common project of challenging European philosophical and social categories and hierarchies, the discourses are considered incompatible. Most prominently, new materialisms have been accused of harbouring a White vision of the human while disregarding the racist resonances of the 'nonhuman'. The book traces this conflict to an earlier meeting point of new materialist and decolonial projects, which came about through the experimental combination of Marx and Nietzsche. Used to fight fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, this politically contentious fusion gradually became depoliticised, leading to unaddressed tensions today. While the book does not argue for a revival of these early 'new materialisms', it brings their strategies into dialogue with today's new materialisms and decolonial approaches to develop greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis.
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September 1975Die Aussperrung nach dem Grundgesetz.
Unter welchen Voraussetzungen kann die Aussperrung durch Bundesgesetz für sich allein oder im Zusammenhang mit einer allgemeinen gesetzlichen Regelung des Arbeitskampfrechts verboten oder eingeschränkt werden?
by Raiser, Thomas
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March 1979Die Dynastie
Ein Handelshaus in Hongkong. Roman
by Elegant, Robert S / Übersetzt von Carroux, Margaret
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