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The Cold War is often stereotypically depicted as a period of complete separation between Eastern and Western Europe, a time of little communication and exchange between what is often called the “Eastern bloc” and the capitalist West . European integration, it is thought, was a Western project based on exclusively Western ideas. This edited volume aims to debunk this stereotype. It provides evidence for the numerous media and individuals that contributed to the circulation and exchange of ideas across the ideological divide of the Iron Curtain. The essays in this volume discuss the official and unofficial channels of communication between the Eastern bloc and the West as well as the complex networks of transmission and reception that enabled the exchange of ideas between the two. The first part of the volume examines the communication infrastructure of the Cold War and the role of then available communication technologies. The second hones in on how different media channels, and the radio in particular, were used to form and transmit ideas between East and West, whereas the third and final part looks at how individual artists and literary authors made their voices heard across the Iron Curtain.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Border Traffic. --- Communicating. --- East/West. --- Europe. --- Infrastructures and Media.

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The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic structures of action and communication observable, thus problematizing their self-evidence. The contributions conceptualize historical and contemporary politics of form in the media, which aim to be more than mere shock strategies, which are concerned not just with the 'narcissistic' exhibition of art as art, but also with the creation of a new common horizon of experience. They combine the analysis of paradigmatic works, procedures and actions with reference to theoretical debates in the fields of literature, media and art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essay-collection shows how textual, visual, auditive or performative strategies disclose their own ways of functioning, intervene in automated processes of reception and thus work on stimulating a sense of political possibilities. The editors acknowledge support from the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP 7/ 2007-2013), ERC grant agreement no. 312454.

Arts. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Disruption. --- arts. --- societal self-description. --- Arts, Primitive

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Der von Lars Nowak herausgegebene Band untersucht räumliche Aspekte von Mediennutzung, die bei der Vorbereitung und Führung, aber auch Hegung und Abwendung von Kriegen eine Rolle spielen. Dabei wird im Ausgang von der Beobachtung, dass der Raum nicht nur für Kriege, sondern auch für Kriegsmedien Gegenstand und Bedingung zugleich ist, ein besonderer Akzent auf den Umstand gelegt, dass Medien nicht weniger als Waffen- und Transporttechnologien zur sozialen Konstruktion militärischer Räume beitragen. So zeigen die im Band versammelten Fallstudien, die historisch von der antiken Kriegführung bis zum aktuellen Network Centric Warfare reichen, welche Rolle die mediale Erzeugung, Speicherung, Übertragung und Verarbeitung von Informationen beispielsweise bei der Lenkung von Waffen, der Koordination getrennter Truppenteile, der Verortung des Gegners oder der militärischen Erschließung des Meeres- und des Luftraumes spielt.

Schlachtfeld --- Militär --- Lokalisierung --- Feindaufklärung --- Telekommunikation

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