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Touch in the Time of Corona

Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

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Touch in the Time of Corona

Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity’s complex relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings? How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think through the technological and material dependencies that the pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to imagine the world beyond the pandemic—both utopian and dystopian? The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital studies.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311074483X

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9783110744835

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Building Sites

By: Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber

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Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Building Sites

By: Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber

These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.

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Springer

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0230246958

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9780230246959

Phenomenologies of the City

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

By: Henriette Steiner,Maximilian Sternberg

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Phenomenologies of the City

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

By: Henriette Steiner,Maximilian Sternberg

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. Phenomenology has informed debate about the city from social sciences to cultural studies. Within architecture, however, phenomenological inquiry has been neglecting the question of the city. Addressing this lacuna, this book suggests that the city presents not only the richest, but also the politically most urgent horizon of reference for philosophical reflection on the cultural and ethical dimensions of architecture. The contributors to this volume are architects and scholars of urbanism. Some have backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. The book features 16 chapters by younger scholars as well as established thinkers including Peter Carl, David Leatherbarrow, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Wendy Pullan and Dalibor Vesely. Rather than developing a single theoretical statement, the book addresses architecture’s relationship with the city in a wide range of historical and contemporary contexts. The chapters trace hidden genealogies, and explore the ruptures as much as the persistence of recurrent cultural motifs. Together, these interconnected phenomenologies of the city raise simple but fundamental questions: What is the city for, how is it ordered, and how can it be understood? The book does not advocate a return to a naive sense of ’unity’ or ’order’. Rather, it investigates how architecture can generate meaning and forge as well as contest social and cultural representations.

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301

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Routledge

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131708134X

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9781317081340

Tower to Tower

Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

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Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

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MIT Press

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0262552043

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9780262552042

The Emergence of a Modern City

Golden Age Copenhagen 1800–1850

By: Henriette Steiner

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The Emergence of a Modern City

Golden Age Copenhagen 1800–1850

By: Henriette Steiner

This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c. 1800 to 1850), was experienced and structured socially, institutionally, and architecturally. It draws on a broad historical source material - spanning urban anecdotes, biography, philosophy, literature, and visual culture - to do so. The book argues that Copenhagen emerged as a modern city at this time, despite the fact that the Golden Age never witnessed the appearance of the main characteristics of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation, such as street lighting, sewer systems, and railroads. The book outlines the historical and topographical context of Copenhagen in the Golden Age with a special focus on the works of the most prominent architect of the period, C.F. Hansen. The characterisation of the city is complemented by investigations into writings of three citizens: the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, the novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, and the criminal Ole Kollerod, who all take an interest in the city's institutional and urban structures as well as their own place in it. From these different sources, a picture is painted of urban life and thought at a time when the city began to take on characteristics of ambiguity and alienation in European thinking, while at the same time the city itself retained some pre-modern motifs of a symbolic order. This transformation is set in a larger process of cultural re-orientation, from traditional Baroque culture to what might be termed Romantic culture. The book reconsiders the significance of this transformation for the emergent order of the modern European city in the nineteenth century and thus of the very foundation on which our own urban culture rests.

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220

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Routledge

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1317034384

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Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Comparative Readings

By: Eve-Marie Becker,Henriette van der Blom,Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser,Jacob P.B. Mortensen

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Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Comparative Readings

By: Eve-Marie Becker,Henriette van der Blom,Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser,Jacob P.B. Mortensen

This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of ‘idealised influence’, ‘inspirational motivation’, ‘intellectual stimulation’, and ‘individualised consideration’. Chapter 1 offers introduction into authors and theory: all three letter writers are considered as ancient leadership figures composing leadership letters. The letters selected are presented in original text facing a translation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 provides analysis and discussion of each letter, and aims to introduce the reader to the historical and literary contexts before reading the letter through the lenses of Transformational Leadership theory. Chapter 4 sums up the findings on each letter and each letter writer in light of Transformational Leadership and its categories. The volume is aimed at all those who are studying the function of ancient letter-writing – especially the letters of Cicero, Paul, or Seneca.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111438198

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9783111438191

Homeless Entertainment

On Hafid Bouazza's Literary Writing

By: Henriette Louwerse

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Homeless Entertainment

On Hafid Bouazza's Literary Writing

By: Henriette Louwerse

Haﬁd Bouazza is a highly inﬂuential and celebrated author in the Netherlands today. In the context of contemporary Dutch literature, Bouazza's Moroccan background still marks a divergence from the born-and-bred Dutch norm. Authors with a bi- or multicultural background are still often cast in the role of 'exotic outsider'. Bouazza both challenges and uses this position to the full. His writing demonstrates that the perceived us-them or self-other positions are questionable ideological constructs. He undermines the concept of a uniﬁed culture and the wholeness of the self. He explores and exploits stereotypical beliefs held on both sides of the East-West divide. The result is a magical realist setting that both puzzles and enchants. This book offers a reading of Bouazza's literary prose that responds to the interpretative opportunities offered by an author who skilfully and creatively explores his peculiar freedom in his Homeless Entertainment.

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Peter Lang

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303911333X

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9783039113330

A Thousand Kisses

A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters

By: Henriette Pollatschek

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A Thousand Kisses

A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters

By: Henriette Pollatschek

Translates the 1939-42 letters of Henriette Pollatschek and her grown daughter Lene Furth, Czech women who chose to remain in their homeland while their relatives escaped the Nazis by traveling overseas.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817309306

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9780817309305

Lite is Dangerous

Investigating Aspartame and Other Sweeteners - Essais - documents

By: Henriette Chardak

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Lite is Dangerous

Investigating Aspartame and Other Sweeteners - Essais - documents

By: Henriette Chardak

In 6,000 food products, aspartame is found everywhere in so-called diet nutrition. However, several scientific studies show that this sweetener is harmful for children, pregnant women and epileptics. Used to replace sugar and reduce the caloric intake of food, aspartame actually works in the opposite direction, it develops obesity and diabetes. In this first in-depth investigation of the diet industry, Henriette Chardak exposes a health scandal. She shows why the use of aspartame continues despite the risks it generates. How people were pushed into consuming these chemical substances—whose harmlessness had been questioned for many years. Between Chicago and Tokyo, top-secret files and complacency of the authorities, the author offers us a breathless thriller, behind-the-scenes of the world chemical industry. The story begins in Chicago and ends up in our plates and our medicines. A real cold case, where readers will find the keys to a thriller that was played out in the 1970s. They will make up their minds about the usefulness—or danger—of this fake sugar. Two scoops: • super sweeteners from aspartame are given to cattle to make them grow fatter faster; • Japan, which manufactures aspartame, does not consume it. This book also lays bare what is was not meant to be told—the conflicts of interest, colossal stakes, secret files forbidden to the public. Henriette Chardak is a journalist and television producer. She studied criminology with Professor Jacques Léauté during her journalism studies, which led her to prefer long investigations to short news flashes. After working as a journalist and director for France 2, she devoted herself to biographies, to introduce the general public to unique and exemplary pioneers: Kepler, Brahe, Pythagoras, Rabelais, Cervantes, Reclus, Shakespeare.

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Max Milo

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2315011655

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9782315011650

Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency

By: Henriette Müller

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Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency

By: Henriette Müller

The EU's pluralistic, nonhierarchical system of multilevel governance lacks clear structures of both government and opposition. According to the EU treaties, the presidency of the European Commission is thus not explicitly expected to exercise political leadership. However, the position cannot effectively be exercised without any demonstration of such leadership due to its many leadership functions. Examining this curious mix of strong political demands, weak institutional powers, and need for political leadership, this book systematically analyses the political leadership performance of the presidents of the European Commission throughout the process of European integration. The basic argument is that Commission presidents matter not only in the process of European integration, but that their impact varies according to how the different incumbents deal with the institutional structure and the situational circumstances, and thus their available strategic choices. The primary research question is thus, What makes political leadership in European governance successful and to what extent (and why) do Commission presidents differ in their leadership performance? In addressing this question, this book departs from existing research on EU leadership, which has to date often analysed either the EU's institutional structure and its potential for leadership or mainly focused on only the most recent incumbents in case study analyses. Focusing on the multiterm European Commission presidents Walter Hallstein, Jacques Delors, and Jos� Manuel Barroso, this book conceptualizes their political leadership as a performance, and thus systematically analyzes their agenda-setting, mediative-institutional, and public outreach performance over the entire course of their presidential terms.

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0198842007

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9780198842002

A Tale of Two Towers

Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

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Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture--the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructure--from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the "tech giant." Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of gigantism they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

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0262358336

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9780262358330

Phenomenologies of the City

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

By: Henriette Steiner,Maximilian Sternberg

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Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

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Touch in the Time of Corona

Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic

By: Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel

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Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic

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Touch in the Time of Corona

Touch in the Time of Corona

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Phenomenologies of the City

Phenomenologies of the City

Tower to Tower

Tower to Tower

The Emergence of a Modern City

The Emergence of a Modern City

Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Homeless Entertainment

Homeless Entertainment

A Thousand Kisses

A Thousand Kisses

Lite is Dangerous

Lite is Dangerous

Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency

Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency

A Tale of Two Towers

A Tale of Two Towers

Phenomenologies of the City

Phenomenologies of the City

Touch in the Time of Corona

Touch in the Time of Corona

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