Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts

Rhythmanalysis Perspective for Mobile Places Studies

Ekaterina Fen — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:49:50 +0000

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Ekaterina Fen Centre for Fundamental Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow,
E-Mail: ekaterina.fen@gmail.com

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This article studies the idea of rhythm performance and perception as a tool for mobility places studies. Starting from the analysis of H. Lefebvre classification it introduces observer/actor dichotomy that allows to refer to marginal aspects in rhythmanalysis discussion, such as: mobility places, idea of atmosphere, dichotomy of rhythm/improvisation and applicability of rhythmanalysis to the bigger-scale territories. That allows broadening the limits of disciplinary field of “new urbanism”.

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Rhythmanalysis, New urbanism, Mobility places, Method

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Ekaterina Fen “Rhythmanalysis Perspective for Mobile Places Studies” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 48-52, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1529, Pages: 5

Zur Zeitverwendung von Bachelor-Studierenden in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit

Alexa Maria Kunz — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:59:36 +0000

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Alexa Maria Kunz Lehrstuhl für Soziologie – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kompetenzerwerbs, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie,
E-Mail: alexa.kunz@kit.edu

Meike Enchelmaier Lehrstuhl für Soziologie – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kompetenzerwerbs, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie,
E-Mail: meike.enchelmaier@kit.edu

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This paper was developed from a presentation hold on the annual convention of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) in February 2012.
Since the beginning of the Bologna Process the controversial issue of students’ time allocation has been occasionally discussed in the scientific community as well as in public media. It is ambiguous how much time students spend for studying and how they get along with their workload. For the first time a research group at the KIT collected and analysed a large scale of data on students’ time allocation, students’ workload as well as motives for studying during the semester break. This paper contrasts ‘time institutions’ of employees like the 40-hour working week with student time structures.

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Higher education studies, Study time allocation, Time institutions, Semester break

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Alexa Maria Kunz, Meike Enchelmaier “Zur Zeitverwendung von Bachelor-Studierenden in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 44-47, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1523, Pages: 4

Künstliche Intelligenz in Literatur und Film – Fiktion oder Realität?

Lisa Xanke — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:46:36 +0000

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Lisa Xanke Institut für Geschichte, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie,
E-Mail: lisa.xanke@web.de

Elisabeth Bärenz Institut für Geschichte, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie,
E-Mail: elisabeth.baerenz@gmx.net

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The article deals with the idea of artificial people in literature and film, using examples from the literature and the history of film it is shown that the idea of artificial people has always existed. With the increase of technical innovations, more and more scenarios developed by artificial people, to the formation of the idea of the cyborg.

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Transhumanism, Artificial intelligence, Artificial human, Terminator, Cyborgs

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Lisa Xanke, Elisabeth Bärenz “Künstliche Intelligenz in Literatur und Film – Fiktion oder Realität?” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 36-43, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1515, Pages: 8

Ein persönlicher Nachruf auf Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012)

Rolf-Ulrich Kunze — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:08 +0000

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

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The historian Imanuel Geiss who died in Bremen on February 20 at age 81 was one of the few internationally renowned representatives of German historic teaching. His works about WW I, the history of racism, but especially his Encycplopedia of Global History “Geschichte griffbereit” (1979ff.) will be rememberd as milestones of .scholarship.

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Global history historian, Imanuel Geiss, Fischer controversy (WW I)

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Rolf-Ulrich Kunze “Ein persönlicher Nachruf auf Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012)”, Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 34- 35, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1504, Pages: 2

Formats

Ulrich Gehmann — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:03 +0000

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Ulrich Gehmann Institut für Geschichte, Arbeitskreis “Formatierung sozialer Räume”, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, E-Mail: ugehm@t-online.de

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In the following, a new conceptual framework for investigating nowadays’ “technical” phenomena shall be introduced, that of formats. The thesis is that processes of formatting account for our recent conditions of life, and will do so in the very next future. It are processes whose foundations have been laid in modernity and which will further unfold for the time being. These processes are embedded in the format of the value chain, a circumstance making them resilient to change. In addition, they are resilient in themselves since forming interconnected systems of reciprocal causal circuits.Which leads to an overall situation that our entire “Lebenswelt” became formatted to an extent we don’t fully realize, even influencing our very percep-tion of it.

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Formats, Formatization, Value chaining, Colonization, Technicality

Citation

Ulrich Gehmann “Formats”, Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 13-33, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1494, Pages: 21

Beyond Humanisms

Rafael Capurro — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:46:20 +0000

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Rafael Capurro International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) (http://icie.zkm.de/),
E-Mail: rafael@capurro.de

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In the first part of this paper a short history of Western humanisms (Socrates, Pico della Mirandola, Descartes, Kant) is presented. As far as these humanisms rest on a fixation of the ‘humanum’ they are metaphysical, although they might radically differ from each other. The second part deals with the present debate on trans- and posthumanism in the context of some breath-taking developments in science and technology.
Angeletics, a theory of messengers and messages, intends to give an answer to the leading question of this paper, namely: ‘what does it mean to go beyond humanisms?’ The conclusion exposes briefly an ethics of hospitality and care from an angeletic perspective.

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Humanism, Posthumanism, Angeletics, Ethics, Metaphysics

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Rafael Capurro “Beyond Humanisms,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 4 (2012), 1 -12, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1362, Pages: 12

No Place (No) Where – Voyages on Crossing Lines

Petra Kempf — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:50 +0000

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Petra Kempf, Ph.D Columbia University, New York City, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
E-Mail: pk114@columbia.edu

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This article elaborates on the notion of place that is not linked to a specific destination or goal, but an experience through the act of wandering and wondering, actions and interactions, but most importantly through the use of one’s own individual senses.

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Place, Being, Path, Dwelling, Body, Marginal Man

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Petra Kempf “No Place (No) Where – Voyages on Crossing Lines,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 3 (2011), 101-107, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1327, Pages: 7

Topic “Posthuman Age”

Ulrich Gehmann — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:45:36 +0000

For many, after the era of a so-called post-modern age, that of a posthuman one seems to have emerged. Due to an ever-increasing entanglement of the human domain with various fields of the technological, for those who postulate that post-human era an entirely new epoch of history has begun. It is conceived as an epoch marked by an encompassing integration of the human and the technological and through that, leading not just to a new historical epoch to be added to all those others already passed by but to a new kind of history – the posthuman. It is conceived as the time after man; when man, in being just man, has ceased to exist and is about to turn into something (or somebody) different. A time that is thought to have already begun, and the fact that “posthuman age” could become a technical term reflects the overall conception of our contemporaneous conditions of life. It indicates that we even left the “technotope” (Ropohl), the coining figure for characterizing such conditions up to now, and are on the move towards conditions of a different quality; and thus, towards a new kind of history as such. The aim of this topic is to examine what this could mean, for us as well as for the spaces we live in, us being the inhabitants of the new age coming up the horizon. We invite to participate in the examination, in developing different perspectives on a not only fascinating but first and foremost important topic.

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Raum als Schicksal? Geografie, Territorium und Landschaft bescheren seinen Bewohnern unterschiedliche Infrastrukturen, Sicherheitszonen und Lebenschancen

Rudolf Maresch — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:08:02 +0000

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Rudolf Maresch www.rudolf-maresch.de,
E-Mail: mail@rudolf-maresch.de

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Space is a fundamental category for any form of power. It is also a medium of social relations, articulated as physical and symbolic distance. The production and control of space is thus crucial to any execution of power, representing its potency, reproducing its social order, and neutralizing and naturalizing its objectives through planning processes that lead to a specific physical layout. Any claim to power and property manifests and institutionalizes itself in the act of territorialization. Infrastructure is a prominent practice of the organization of space. It formed a specific understanding of boundaries, zone of security and means of separation: interior/exterior, private/public, legal/illegal.
There have been many voices claiming, that the decisive borders of today’s social order can no longer be defined in space thanks to the impact of new media and the advent of the information and telecommunications revolution. This is seemingly true but geography still matters like Carl John A. Agnew said in the early eighties. So a closer look inspired especially by Carl Schmitt and his famous remarks post WK II in Der Nomos der Welt bears witness not only a massive fragmentation of the landscape but also the production of hermetic spaces and territorial and legal islands.

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Space, Power, Social relations, Production, Control, Territorialisation,Property, Separation, Zone of security

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Rudolf Maresch “Raum als Schicksal? Geografie, Territorium und Landschaft bescheren seinen Bewohnern unterschiedliche Infrastrukturen, Sicherheitszonen und Lebenschancen,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol.3 (2011), 94 – 100, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/539, Pages: 7

Begetting machinery II – Evolutionärer Algorithmus und technische Evolution

Andie Rothenhäusler — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:42:17 +0000

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Andie Rothenhäusler Institut für Geschichte, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT),
E-Mail: andie.rothenhaeusler@gmx.de

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In the 1970s and 1980s two new approaches to an evolutionary explanation of technology emerged: While a new generation of sociobiologists increasingly started to view animal and human artifacts as an ,extended phenotype’ of humankind historians and sociologists of technology found in an evolutionary genesis of technology a third way between technological determinism and a social construction of technology. This evolution of technology seemed able to explain multi-causal coherences in the genesis of technology applicably by using allegedly simple rules.

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Technological evolution, History of technology, Darwinism, Evolutionary algorithm

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Andie Rothenhäusler “Begetting machinery II – Evolutionärer Algorithmus und technische Evolution,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol.3 (2011), 82 – 93, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1297, Pages: 12