Author

Gert Schmidt
Situlistr. 62, 80939 München, E-Mail: gertschmidt@gmx.de

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Abstract English

The article deals with the impact of automobile-culture between the 1950s and the 1970s in Germany. The progress of ‚Automobilism’ has patterned every-day-life and culture in the Federal Republic of Germany as intensively as the development of auto-industry in the country has influenced the economy. West-Germany became in this period highly dependent on the auto-economy, and became a modern ‚car-society’.

Keywords

Automobilism, The history of economy and culture in Germany after the II. World War

Citation

Gert Schmidt “Automobilkultur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – 50er und 60er Jahre,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol.2 (2010), 33 – 44, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1138, Pages: 11

Author

Rolf-Ulrich Kunze
Institut für Philosophie, KIT, E-Mail: Rolf-Ulrich.Kunze@kit.edu

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When Prof. Ernst Rabel (1874-1955) was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for international private Law at Berlin in 1926, he already was one of the world’s most renowned researchers and teachers of both comparative and international private law. The article outlines major aspects of the uniqueness of his work.

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Ernst Rabel, International private law, Comparative law

Citation

Rolf-Ulrich Kunze “Ernst Rabels grand design der Rechtsvergleichung: ein Internationalist zwischen Rechtsgeschichte und -praxis,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol.2 (2010), 28 – 32, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1128, Pages: 5

Ulrich Gehmann, Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Editors-in-chief

Based on the mentioned “feedback- and feed-forward loops,” the effects on globalization reveal then – upon closer examination – a recursive causality. That means, spatial effects, triggered by globalization, can be described through these “auto-logics.” They transform the overall appearances of various spatial configurations, but also the connections between them. If this assumption of causal network-generation is valid, then cybernetics is not an outdated issue confined to the more techno-optimistic days of a passed century or devoted to an ideology of control. Actually, the opposite is the case. These concepts of self-organization, spontaneous orders or other self-referential properties of complex systems that apply to socio-economic, socio-technical, cultural and conceptual spaces are as true as ever. They continually influence our present and at the same time are subjected to our past – to an evolution.

We would like to invite everyone who is interested, to examine these fascinating spatial developments, which we describe as “Spatial Cypernetics.” They seem to be the most suited to reveal these causal networks. A wide variety of spaces could be investigated, such as “classical” spatiality’s in the political realm, adopting the shape of spaces of power and control; social spaces in all of their diversities, being the subject of globalization, integration or disintegration; different cultural spaces, spaces of perception, or socio-technical spaces driven by technological impacts and other forces in their wake. That means space could either be examined in its morphology – the present state it is in – or combined, as a historical analysis unfolding the lines and connections, which led to the present state in question. Furthermore, spaces and developments could be compared, if they show morphological similarities in terms of development, as well as in terms of result. One can easily see how multi-faceted the opportunities of framing this topic are – ranging from specific case studies to general overviews. We would therefore like to invite you to participate and explore these different pathways of “Spatial Cypernetics.”