Grafiker und Designer, Statistiker, Geografen, Architekten und Kommunikationsfachleute – sie alle arbeiten mit Daten. ‹Von B und C› ist ein innovativer Beitrag zur Datenvisualisierung. Die Autorinnen Barbara Hahn und Christine Zimmermann erforschen neue Möglichkeiten der Darstellung und zeigen zahlreiche Vorschläge sowie die dazugehörenden Basisdaten. Produktionstechnische Besonderheiten wie die spezielle Handhabung und das Heraustrennen der grossformatigen Plakate machen das Buch zu einem Designobjekt mit ganz eigenem Charme.
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century?This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schüler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous.
The book explores the evolution of U.S. cities, highlighting their origins as trading posts and their growth during the industrial era. It examines the decline in significance due to suburbanization and deindustrialization, revealing the pervasive signs of decay in urban environments. The narrative delves into the challenges these cities face, presenting a sobering outlook for their future amidst ongoing changes.
Placing the British Industrial Revolution in global context, Barbara Hahn
explores the role of technological change in world history. Tracing this
transformative moment from the north of England to slavery, cotton
plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond, Hahn provides a new
perspective on the relationship between technology and society.
Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco
Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-
crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of
identity politics in the twentieth century.
In the United States, income inequality has surged, with wage growth stagnating for the middle class while the top 10% of earners have reaped the most benefits from economic progress. The wealth gap between upper-income and lower-income families has reached unprecedented levels, as highlighted by a Pew Research Center analysis. Disparities exist not only between regions but also within cities, often driven by urban governance and housing policies. Similar trends can be observed in Canada and other countries across the Americas, albeit to varying extents. Additionally, racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities persist, stemming from a lack of social justice, equal opportunities, and access to education and health services. These systemic and structural inequalities are reflected in cultural practices, where literature, theater, and art explore societal differences, frequently along the 'color line.' The essays compiled in this collection examine inequality in America through diverse lenses, including literary and cultural studies, sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, and museum studies, offering a multifaceted analysis of the issue.
We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the unconscious: One is the attempt of interpreting, of unveiling the hidden meaning of dreams. The other one is not so much concerned with the relation of dream and meaning, of dream and reality, it rather concentrates on trying to find means of representation for this extremely productive force that determines our sleep. The essays collected in this book explore both attempts. They follow debates in philosophy and psychoanalysis and they study literature, theatre, dance, film, and photography.
Im Gespräch mit ihrem abwesenden Professor Dieter Sevin erkunden Studenten der Vanderbilt University in den „Büchner-Lektüren“ „Dantons Tod“, „Lenz“ und „Woyzeck“. Rekonstruktionen der Geschichte von Fallgeschichten, Überlegungen zur Autorschaft sowie Lese- und Aufführungsanregungen gelten dem „Woyzeck“, während „Lenz“ im Blick auf Schwellenerfahrungen gesehen wird, sei es in Konzeptionen des Wahnsinns oder in Darstellungen von Tod und Leben. Bei „Dantons Tod“ dominieren Reflexionen über die Revolution: von Hannah Arendt aus gelesen sowie konzentriert in der Figur der Marion. Graduate Students at Vanderbilt University engage in conversations with Dieter Sevin, their absent professor, due to sickness. In their readings of Büchner's work they concentrate on "Danton's Tod„, “Lenz„, and “Woyzeck„. Reflections on the history of case studies, on concepts of authorship as well as on presenting the piece to students in the classroom or on a stage determine their approaches to “Woyzeck„. “Lenz", Büchner's prose text, challenges reading of concepts of madness and representations of death and life - experiences on the threshold. Readings of "Danton's Tod" center on the question of revolution, be it centered in the character of Marion or informed by Hannah Arendt's reflections in her book „On Revolution“.
Globalization and urban networks are not a new phenomenon, but have gained momentum since the 1980s. The domination of capital over labor, the restructuring of employment, the polarization of class division and political conflicts have created an urban hierarchy with cities like Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris at the top. However, smaller cities located in the semi-periphery form important links in the global network as well. In this volume authors with backgrounds in different fields of research such as geography, sociology, history, and political science look at global cities from various angles. The hierarchy of global cities and the restructuring process within global cities, public policy and urban politics, the rising vulnerability, urban governance, the political sector in Washington, DC, the assimilation of different migrant populations, and the culture of Dancehall Reggae are being discussed.
Reich an bislang unveröffentlichtem Bildmaterial zeigt dieses Buch die Bedeutung der Literatur für Hannah Arendts Schaffen. Neben Essays der beiden renommierten Autorinnen Barbara Hahn und Marie-Luise Knott enthält das vorliegende Buch auch bislang unveröffentlichte Texte von Hannah Arendt. Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Buchs steht die Frage danach, was Literatur im Werk der Philosophin und Theoretikerin bedeutet, was sie angerichtet und vor allem angestiftet hat. Literatur ist in Hannah Arendts Werk nicht Beleg, sondern Beweggrund des Denkens. “Nur von den Dichtern erwarten wir Wahrheit (nicht von den Philosophen, von denen wir Gedachtes erwarten)”, schrieb Hannah Arendt in ihrem „Denktagebuch“. Spuren literarischer Texte finden sich in all ihren Werken. So stützt sich die Studie über den Totalitarismus beispielsweise auf Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad und Franz Kafka. In ihr Buch Vita activa streute sie zahllose Verse aus Gedichten von Goethe, Fontane, Rilke und Brecht. Hannah Arendt hat über Dichter geschrieben und war mit vielen Schriftstellern befreundet. Ihr wurden Gedichte gewidmet, Figuren in literarischen Texten tragen ihre Züge. „Dichterisch Denken“ – so bezeichnete sie Walter Benjamins Schreibweise, und so könnte man auch ihr Schreiben charakterisieren.
