March 12, 2015

What exactly is total about the total work of art? This is a question that moves beyond the specific ways in which media relate to one another in the Wagnerian artwork, and instead drives towards a theory of what media are as such. It is thus no wonder that Friedrich ...read more

March 6, 2015

GESELLIGKEIT. BILDUNGSKULTUR UND BÜGERLICHE EMANZIPATION

ABSTRACT:
In der deutschen Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte spielt die Geselligkeit, oft definiert als gepflegter Umgang unter gebildeten und kultivierten Menschen, die im zweckfreien Raum ein gemeinsames Interesse verbindet, eine besondere Rolle, weil die von ihr geförderte Kultur den von der Politik abgesonderten Bereich bürgerlicher und, schließlich ideologisiert, ...read more

March 1, 2015

Barriers are an intrinsic element of society, and the ability to negotiate them forms the basis for progress, conflict or stagnation. But barriers are more than politics, nationality or ideology. In contrast to borders which establish a fixed partition between two or more objects, the barrier exists in a state ...read more

February 28, 2015

Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Serialities 1915/2015
Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2015
Berkeley Alumni House and Nestrick Room, Dwinelle Hall

Presented by the Department of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

Organized by:
Alex Bush, Co-Organizer
Renée Pastel, Co-Organizer
Linda Williams

Information: http://berkeleyfilmconference.com

Tickets: Eventbrite

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February 28, 2015

Barriers are an intrinsic element of society, and the ability to negotiate them forms the basis for progress, conflict or stagnation. But barriers are more than politics, nationality or ideology. In contrast to borders which establish a fixed partition between two or more objects, the barrier exists in a state ...read more

February 27, 2015

Screening of two short films by documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki, "Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik" and "Ich dachte Gefangene zu sehen." ...read more

February 27, 2015

Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Serialities 1915/2015
Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2015
Berkeley Alumni House and Nestrick Room, Dwinelle Hall

Presented by the Department of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

Organized by:
Alex Bush, Co-Organizer
Renée Pastel, Co-Organizer
Linda Williams

Information: http://berkeleyfilmconference.com

Tickets: Eventbrite

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February 26, 2015

Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Serialities 1915/2015
Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2015
Berkeley Alumni House and Nestrick Room, Dwinelle Hall

Presented by the Department of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

Organized by:
Alex Bush, Co-Organizer
Renée Pastel, Co-Organizer
Linda Williams

Information: http://berkeleyfilmconference.com

Tickets: Eventbrite

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February 24, 2015

How ambitious thinkers tried to operate with the world wide web before World War I.

Markus Krajewski, is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Paper Machines. About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929. The MIT Press, 2011, The Servant. Media History of a Figure ...read more

February 11, 2015

The European Union is unique in the sense that it works and passes legislation in 24 official EU languages. Every EU citizen has the right to communicate with the EU institutions in any of these official languages, and all EU legislation is published in each of these languages. Furthermore, elected ...read more