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Vanitas und Gesellschaft

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Gegenwärtig lässt sich in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Diskursfeldern eine Bezugnahme auf das Motiv der ,Vanitas' (Vergänglichkeit) feststellen.Die Beiträge dieses Band widmen sich der überraschenden Virulenz eines ursprünglich christlichen und in der Frühen Neuzeit wirkmächtigen Konzeptes in Popkultur, Literatur, Musik und bildender Kunst und verdeutlichen ferner seine Relevanz für Soziologie, Theologie, Philosophie, Psychologie und Medizin. Bedeutung erlangt Vanitas sowohl mit traditionell dem Motiv verwandten Themen wie Trauer und Mortalität als auch in Verbindung mit hochaktuellen Diskursen über Beschleunigungs- und Kontingenzerfahrungen, dystopischen Szenarien der Klimakatastrophe oder utopischen Visionen des Transhumanismus. Neben soziologischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven auf Vergänglichkeit, Flüchtigkeit, letale Krankheiten, Alter und Tod widmen sich die Beiträge der popkulturellen und künstlerischen Aneignung des Vanitas-Topos zwischen spielerischer Ironie und tiefsinniger Melancholie.Der interdisziplinäre Band ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Reflexion von Gegenwart unter Bezugnahme auf einen tradierten kulturtheoretischen Topos. This interdisciplinary volume delves into the significance of the early modern vanitas motif in the present day. In the arts, pop culture, and social discourses, it is utilized to make cultural-critical diagnoses. Reflections about the mortality of human life, about decadence and conceit, or the futile pursuit of happiness are updated, but they are joined by new topics such as climate change and transhumanism.


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Paragesellschaften : Imaginationen - Inszenierungen - Interaktionen in den Gegenwartskulturen

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In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this reductionist gesture, thereby enabling a differentiated understanding of media reflections upon socio-political and societal interactions with diversity in the present day. In politischen und medialen Debatten werden unter dem häufig stigmatisierend gebrauchten Schlagwort ,Parallelgesellschaft' Fragen sozialer Homogenität und Heterogenität kontrovers diskutiert. Diesem reduktionistischen Gestus setzt der Band das offene Konzept der ,Paragesellschaft' entgegen und ermöglicht dadurch eine differenzierte Annäherung an mediale Reflexionen des soziopolitischen und gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit Diversität in verschiedenen Dispositiven der Gegenwart.


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Sensing art, training the body : Marres program 2017-2021
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ISBN: 9789082813432 Year: 2021 Publisher: Maastricht : Marres, House for Contemporary Culture,

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Marres' projects focus on the senses, the vocabularies of the body, and have an emphasis on experience. The publication 'Sensing Art, Training the Body' highlights this exhibition and training program. This book brings together a collection of 12 of the popular cahiers that Marres publishes for each exhibition between 2017 and 2021. Each presents a variation on the traditional visitors' catalogue: some cahiers contain explanatory texts and images, others are picture pamphlets, and yet others take the form of a fold out art poster. It includes The Painted Bird (2017), Dreaming Awake (2018) and Museum Motus Mori (2019) and many others. In addition to the cahiers, this publication also offers a broad selection of exhibition images and two new essays. Publicist Edo Dijksterhuis writes about Marres' full-environment art installations and anthropologist and medical doctor Anna Harris writes about the Training the Senses program. Sensing Art, Training the Body forms a compendium to The Collection that compiled all the 11 cahiers between 2013 and 2017. Sensing Art, Training the Body is available with five different cover images from five different exhibitions: Dreaming Awake (1), Museum Motus Mori (2), Marijn van Kreij: Nude in the Studio (3), The Floor is Lava (4) and Marres Movements (5) .


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Reuse, Misuse, Abuse : The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
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ISBN: 081359930X Year: 2021 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the ethics of such appropriations, particularly when the recording depicts actual people and events. Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse in that it was not intended or at least anticipated by the original maker, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. In fact, there are many instances of productive misuse that seem justified. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Documentary scholars have long engaged with the question of the ethical responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for the taking and repurposing? Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys a range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and attempts to theorize their ethical implications.

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