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Social media and self-esteem
(2022)
The relationship between social media and self-esteem is complex, as studies tend to find a mixed pattern of relationships and meta-analyses tend to find small, albeit significant, magnitudes of statistical effects. One explanation is that social media use does not affect self-esteem for the majority of users, while small minorities experience either positive or negative effects, as evidenced by recent research calculating person specific within-person effects. This suggests that the true relationship between social media use and self-esteem is person-specific and based on individual susceptibilities and uses. In recognition of these advancements, we review recent empirical studies considering differential uses and moderating variables in the social media-self-esteem relationship, and conclude by discussing opportunities for future social media effects research.
Wer schreibt? Wer spricht?
(2022)
Human after man
(2022)
Human after man
(2022)
Das humanistische Konzept des Menschen [Man] mit seinem Ideal des weißen westlichen Mannes als universalem Repräsentanten des Menschlichen [Human] steht in der Kritik. Die jamaikanische Autorin und Philosophin Sylvia Wynter, auf deren Formulierung »Towards Human after Man« sich der Titel dieses Buches bezieht, plädiert bereits seit mehreren Jahrzehnten für eine dekoloniale Konzeption des Menschen, die sich von seinen westlich normierten und rassifizierten Konfigurationen entkoppelt. Aktuelle neomaterialistische, posthumanistische oder ökologische Diskurse sehen insbesondere im Klimawandel, dem voranschreitenden Artensterben und einer immer engeren Verschmelzung von Lebendigem und Technischem sowie den damit verbundenen kapitalistischen Ausbeutungsmechanismen den zwingenden Anlass für ein Neudenken des Menschlichen. Das Buch setzt diese verschiedenen Ansätze in Bezug zueinander und bringt sie in Dialog mit künstlerischen Positionen, die in radikaler und teils höchst spekulativer Art und Weise alternative Formen des Humanum entwerfen. Human after Man ist Ergebnis des siebten Jahresprogramms des cx centrum für interdisziplinäre studien an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.
Nationality traditionally is one of imagology’s key terms. In this article, I propose an intersectional understanding of this category, conceiving nationality as an interdependent dynamic. I thus conclude it to be always internally constructed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, age, ability, and other identity categories. This complex and multi-layered construct, I argue, is formed narratively. To exemplify this, I analyse practices of stereotyping in Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions perdues (1843) and Henry James’s The American (1877) which construct the so-called Parisienne as a synecdoche for nineteenth-century France.
The article is dedicated to the problem of social bonds that is negotiated in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Ulysses embody an old, traditional order of the world that is out of joint, while Cressida's behaviour and her way of interacting indicate a different and new regime of social regulation that is about to take over. With its complex superposition of (touches of) love and war, Troilus and Cressida brings together rituals of touch, anarchic speech acts, and a gendered perspective on the world that associates touch and temporality with 'frail' femininity and temptation. With unrivalled intensity, the play puts to the spectator that the basic condition of touch, i.e. exposing oneself to another, entails an incalculable risk. Hector tragically falls for the vulnerability inherent in touch and the audience suffers with him because they share this existential precondition on which modern society is 'founded.' The gloomy, inescapable atmosphere of societal crisis that Troilus and Cressida creates emphasises the fact that the fragility of touch is not to be overcome. The fractions - no matter whether Greek, Trojan, or those of loving couples - cannot simply be reunited to form a new, authentic entity. Generating at least some form of social cohesion therefore remains a challenge.
Bildung und Umgebung (I)
(2017)
Heiko Christians Bildung und Umgebung (I) Wege aus der pädagogischen Provinz Was einem angehört, wird man nicht los, und wenn man es wegwürfe. Goethe, Wanderjahre (1829) Das Kompetenzwunder Als die Menschen bei Bethsaida am See Genezareth von Jesus aufgefordert wurden, sich »in Gruppen zu je fünfzig zu setzen« (Lukas 9,14), spielte dabei die durchschnittliche Klassenstärke im deutschen Schulsystem wahrscheinlich noch keine Rolle.
Affect Disposition(ing)
(2018)
The “affective turn” has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several “affect disposition(ing) regimes”—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler’s concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events.
Artgames vs. Game Art
(2021)
Computerspiele sind vielfältig. Freizeitvergnügen, professioneller Sport, kulturbildend und kulturkritisch. Sie inspirieren die Kunst und mit ihnen wird Kunst gemacht. Dieser Beitrag betrachtet die Diskurse und Strategien der Computerspielkunst. Im Rückgriff auf die Game Studies und die medienwissenschaftliche Computerspielforschung beleuchtet er die Unterscheidung zwischen Artgames und Game Art (insbesondere Modifikationen) und versucht zu zeigen, dass beide Genres unterschiedlichen Diskursen entstammen, die mit verschiedenen Begriffen und künstlerischen Strategien operieren: Artgames setzen auf Spielbarkeit und Rhetorik und Game Art setzt auf Unspielbarkeit und Ästhetik. Sie grenzen sich so auf unterschiedliche Weise von den Sorgestrukturen kommerzieller Computerspiele ab.
Das Wetter kontrollieren
(2021)
Bildung und Umgebung (II)
(2017)
When considering artists from the second half of the twentieth century who used steel as material for their sculptures, Eduardo Chillida and Richard Serra are among the first to come to mind. Both artists are prominent in public spaces and both present large-size sculptures which challenge viewers. Both use clear geometrical patterns, and both develop their oeuvre from an intense involvement with the properties and possibilities of the material. However, their sculptures show fundamentally diverging conceptions not only in the manner of their creation, but also in their reception. Chillida and Serra have almost nothing in common; they never made reference to each other, although their sculptures often stand in neighbourly proximity. Nevertheless a comparison or more precisely a synopsis can illustrate a number of problems that rise in dealing with sculpture today. Serra’s works convince mostly when they concentrate on complex formal qualities resulting from constellations of geometrical forms and given spaces. However, sculptures in public space consistently have the difficult task of creating memorial places which ideally speak for themselves. Chillida’s sculptures fulfil this purpose because of their expressive pictorial potential. The material COR-TEN steel provides them with power and emphasis.
The Water Exhales
(2021)
Atemdarstellungen im Medium Comic sind ein durchaus ambivalentes Thema. Meines Wissens ist es einerseits recht selten, dass Figuren in Comics atmend gezeigt werden bzw. genauer: dass ihre reguläre Atmung explizit thematisiert wird. Andererseits beinhaltet fast jeder Comic Motive oder Praktiken, die mit dem Einsaugen und Ausstoßen von Atemluft zu tun haben: erleichtertes Seufzen etwa, sich Räuspern, Husten, Keuchen, Rauchen oder Riechen. Da in solchen Panels oder Panelsequenzen Atem bzw. Spielarten desselben besonders markiert sind, bietet es sich an, diese Szenen genauer zu analysieren und sich zu fragen, welchen Effekt Atemmotive an dieser Stelle für die Geschichte haben und auf welche Weise Atem jeweils sichtbar gemacht wird. Der Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, exemplarisch Atemmotive zu diskutieren, um das vielfältige Spektrum ästhetisch-narrativer Atemdarstellungen in Comics anzudeuten.
On 7 February 1861, John Tyndall, professor of natural philosophy, delivered a historical lecture: he could prove that different gases absorb heat to a very different degree, which implies that the temperate conditions provided for by the Earth's atmosphere are dependent on its particular composition of gases. The theoretical foundation of climate science was laid.
Ten years later, on the other side of the Channel, a young and ambitious author was working on a comprehensive literary analysis of the French era under the Second Empire. Émile Zola had probably not heard or read of Tyndall's discovery. However, the article makes the case for reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart as an extensive story of climate change. Zola's literary attempts to capture the defining characteristic of the Second Empire led him to the insight that its various milieus were all part of the same ‘climate’: that of an all-encompassing warming. Zola suggests that this climate is man-made: the economic success of the Second Empire is based on heating, in a literal and metaphorical sense, as well as on stoking the steam-engines and creating the hypertrophic atmosphere of the hothouse that enhances life and maximises turnover and profit. In contrast to Tyndall and his audience, Zola sensed the catastrophic consequences of this warming: the Second Empire was inevitably moving towards a final débâcle, i.e. it was doomed to perish in local and ‘global’ climate catastrophes.
The article foregrounds the supplementary status of Tyndall's physical and Zola's literary knowledge. As Zola's striking intuition demonstrates, literature appears to have a privileged approach to the phenomenon of man-induced climate change.
Nichts (Luce Irigaray)
(2021)
Vorwort
(2021)
Was heißt Berühren Denken?
(2021)