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        September 2006

        Buch der Dinge

        Gedichte

        by Aleš Šteger, Urška P. Cerne, Matthias Göritz, Matthias Göritz

        »Nicht für jedes Ding gibt es ein Wort«, vermeldet das Große Wörterbuch der slowenischen Sprache. Aleš Šteger, als Reisender in vielen Sprachen und Ländern zu Hause, Autor mehrerer Gedichtbände und einer Reiseprosa über Peru und César Vallejo, stellt diese Einsicht seinem neuen Lyrikband als Motto voran. Doch es fehlt nicht nur an Worten. Wie seine streng gebauten, leichtfüßigen Texte, 50 Gedichte, zeigen, haben wir schon das Selbstverständliche nie richtig kennengelernt: Büroklammer, Seife, Zahnstocher (»dieser kleine Robespierre im Maul des Polyphem «), Regenschirm, Hut und Fußmatte. In Štegers Gedichten werden sie aufgerufen und treten uns, dem Allgemeinbegriff entschlüpft, entgegen; sie stellen Fragen, die zu groß sind für so kleine Dinge. Unklare, sich verwandelnde Seinsformen wie Ei, Wurst und Schokolade machen stutzig. Das Brot offenbart seinen sadomasochistischen Charakter: »Ja, ja, es liebt dich, deshalb nimmt es jetzt dein Messer in sich auf. / Es weiß, daß sich all seine Wunden in deiner Hand verkrümeln. « – Nicht zur Benennung der Dinge fehlen uns die Worte, sondern für die Antworten, die wir ihnen schuldig sind.

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        October 2006

        Experimentalsysteme und epistemische Dinge

        Eine Geschichte der Proteinsynthese im Reagenzglas

        by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

        Dieses Buch ist binnen weniger Jahre zum Klassiker der modernen Wissenschaftsgeschichte geworden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht eine Beschreibung der materiellen Anordnungen, die Laborwissenschaftler im 20. Jahrhundert als 'Experimentalsysteme ' bezeichneten. Rheinberger entwirft eine umfassende, materialreiche wie pointierte Epistemologie des modernen Experimentierens. Die Dynamik der Forschung erweist sich dabei als Prozeß der Herausbildung 'epistemischer Dinge': Die empirischen Wissenschaften entwickeln sich in der Auseinandersetzung mit ihren Gegenständen. Dies bedeutet eine radikale Verschiebung der Perspektive weg von den Ideen und Absichten der Handelnden und hin zu den Objekten, auf die sich Handeln und Begehren richten. Es sind die Dinge, an denen die Handlungen entzifferbar werden. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ist Direktor am Max- Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin.

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        February 1991

        Theorien und Dinge

        by Willard Van Orman Quine, Joachim Schulte, Willard Van Orman Quine

        W. V. O. Quine war einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es gelang ihm, die vielfach trocken wirkenden Probleme der Sprachphilosophie und Logik mit anschaulichen Formulierungen, treffenden Beispielen und verblüffenden Bildern lebendig zu machen. Darüber hinaus war er imstande, längst gesichert geglaubten Themen unvorhergesehene Aspekte abzugewinnen. Theorien und Dinge gibt einen überblick über sein Denken zu Fragen der Logik, der Mathematik, der Ethik, des Empirismus und dokumentiert seine Auseinandersetzung mit Russell, Austin, Goodman, Gödel, Smart und Lewis Carroll.

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        April 2007

        Der Wandlungsleib des Dong Yuan

        Die Geschichte eines malerischen Oeuvres

        by Unverzagt, Christian

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        The Arts
        February 2015

        Networks of sound, style and subversion

        The punk and post–punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80

        by Nick Crossley, Peter Martin

        This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of 'critical mass', 'social networks' and 'music worlds', and using sophisticated techniques of 'social network analysis', it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk's 'micro-mobilisation', its diffusion across the UK and its transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area, a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of 'music worlds'. Written in an accessible style, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in either UK punk and post-punk or the impact of social networks on cultural life and the potential of social network analysis to explore this impact. ;

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        September 2016

        Mein Hirn hat seinen eigenen Kopf

        Wie wir andere und uns selbst wahrnehmen

        by Chang, Dong-Seon

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        Non-graphic art forms
        May 2012

        The 'do-it-yourself' artwork

        Participation from Fluxus to New Media

        by Edited by Anna Dezeuze

        Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does active participation affect the viewer's experience and the status of the artwork? Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself.' Rather than a specialist topic in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first century art, the 'do-it-yourself' artwork raises broader issues concerning the role of the viewer in art, the status of the artwork and the socio-political relations between art and its contexts.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2007

        Videogame, player, text

        by Edited by Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska

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        Plays, playscripts
        November 2016

        The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse

        by Thomas May

        by Edited by Matteo Pangallo. Series edited by Paul Dean

        Thomas May's The Tragedy of Antigone (1631), edited by Matteo Pangallo, is the first English treatment of the story made famous by Sophocles. This edition contains a facsimile of the copy held at the Beinecke Library of Yale University, making the play commercially available for the first time since its original publication. The extensive introduction discusses, among other things, the ownership history of existing copies and their marginal annotations, and of the play's topical political implications in the light of May's wavering between royalist and republican sympathies. Writing during the contentious early years of Charles I's reign, May used Sophocles' Antigone to explore the problems of just rule and justified rebellion. He also went beyond the scope of the original, adding content from a wide range of other classical and contemporary plays, poems and other sources, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. This volume will be essential reading for advanced students, researchers and teachers of early English drama and seventeenth-century political history.

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        Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
        November 2011

        The Humorous Magistrate (Arbury)

        by Edited by Margaret Jane Kidnie

        The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone Society in 2010) in a volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The second version, showing yet another stage of revision not found in the Arbury manuscript and orientated towards performance, was purchased by the University of Calgary from the English antiquarian Edgar Osborne in 1972. The relationship between the manuscripts was discovered in 2005. The anonymous play has been attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642). Like The Emperor's Favourite, it takes aim at the court; its particular object of satire is governmental strategies under the Personal Rule of Charles I. The play appears in print for the first time in these separate editions. The volumes are illustrated with several plates, some provided for comparative purposes.

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        Museums & museology
        November 2017

        Disturbing pasts

        Memories, controversies and creativity

        by Edited by Leon Wainwright

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        September 2008

        Der Feng-Shui-Doktor

        Ganzheitlich gesund mit dem traditionellen chinesischen Heilwissen

        by Weidner, Christopher A.; Xiang Dong, Sui

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        Film theory & criticism
        February 2014

        The Encyclopedia of British Film

        Fourth edition

        by Edited by Brian McFarlane

        With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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        September 2018

        Tanzen ist die beste Medizin

        Warum es uns gesünder, klüger und glücklicher macht

        by Christensen, Julia F.; Chang, Dong-Seon / Illustriert von Christensen, Julia F.

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        Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
        March 2011

        Mary Kelly

        Projects, 1973–2010

        by Edited by Dominique Heyes-Moore

        Mary Kelly, we are told, was not a feminist artist, but a feminist who made art. Designed to accompany a major retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery, this book contains essays and interviews which show the implications of that distinction and also the legacy of feminists and feminism in relation to art. Challenging and beautiful, Kelly's artworks address questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory in the form of large-scale narrative installations. The works are agilely discussed in contributions by some of the luminary feminist art scholars of our time, including Janet Wolff, Laura Mulvey, Carol Mavor and Amelia Jones, making this collection an essential new text in the discourse on art, feminism, psychoanalysis and representation.

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