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Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental disasters, technological meltdowns-perennial subjects of literature, film, popular culture, and political debate. Is this preoccupation with catastrophe questionable alarmism or complacent passivity? Or are there certain truths that can be revealed only in apocalypse?In The Future as Catastrophe, Eva Horn offers a novel critique of the modern fascination with disaster, which she treats as a symptom of our relationship to the future. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its cultural and historical roots in Romanticism and the figure of the Last Man, through the narratives of climatic cataclysm and the Cold War's apocalyptic sublime, to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned. Considering works by Lord Byron, J. G. Ballard, and Cormac McCarthy and films such as 12 Monkeys and Minority Report alongside scientific scenarios and political metaphors, she analyzes catastrophic thought experiments and the question of survival, the choices legitimized by imagined states of exception, and the contradictions inherent in preventative measures taken in the name of technical safety or political security. What makes today's obsession different from previous epochs' is the sense of a "catastrophe without event," a stealthily creeping process of disintegration. Ultimately, Horn argues, imagined catastrophes offer us intellectual tools that can render a future shadowed with apocalyptic possibilities affectively, epistemologically, and politically accessible.

Fiction --- Disasters in literature. --- Future, The, in literature. --- Future in literature --- History and criticism. --- Disasters in literature --- Future, The, in literature --- Disaster films --- Future, The, in motion pictures --- Future in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Disasters in motion pictures --- History and criticism

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Digital communications --- Information society. --- Information society --- Social aspects. --- Forecasting.

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This book concerns the origins of mathematical problem solving at the internationally active Osram and Telefunken Corporations during the golden years of broadcasting and electron tube research. The woman scientist Iris Runge, who received an interdisciplinary education at the University of Göttingen, was long employed as the sole mathematical authority at these companies in Berlin. It will be shown how mathematical connections were made between statistics and quality control, and between physical-chemical models and the actual problems of mass production. The organization of industrial laboratories, the relationship between theoretical and experimental work, and the role of mathematicians in these settings will also be explained. By investigating the social, economic, and political conditions that unfolded from the time of the German Empire until the end of the Second World War, the book hopes to build a bridge between specialized fields – mathematics and engineering – and the general culture of a particular era. It hopes, furthermore, to build a bridge between the history of science and industry, on the one hand, and the fields of Gender and Women’s Studies on the other. Finally, by examining the life and work of numerous industrial researchers, insight will be offered into the conditions that enabled a woman to achieve a prominent professional position during a time when women were typically excluded from the scientific workforce.

Runge, Iris, 1888-1966. --- Women mathematicians -- Germany -- Biography. --- Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography. --- Women mathematicians --- Mathematicians --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Mathematics - General --- Science and industry. --- Industry and science --- Mathematics. --- History. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- History of Science. --- Industries --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science --- Runge, Iris,

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"In this major new book, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live"--

Social change. --- Individualism. --- Culture. --- Postmodernism. --- Social change --- Individualism --- Culture --- Postmodernism --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- 316.323.9 --- 316.37 --- 316.42 --- 316.42 Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- 316.37 Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- 316.323.9 Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Economics --- Equality --- Political science --- Self-interest --- Sociology --- Libertarianism --- Personalism --- Persons --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- Social aspects

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Matemàtics --- Klein, Felix, --- Alemanya --- Científics --- Dones matemàtiques --- Matemàtica --- Klein, Christian Felix, --- Klein, F. --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutschland --- Europa occidental --- Països de la Unió Europea --- Països de parla alemanya --- Baden-Württemberg (Alemanya) --- Baixa Saxònia (Alemanya) --- Baviera (Alemanya) --- Berlín (Alemanya) --- Brandenburg (Alemanya) --- Bremen (Alemanya) --- Hamburg (Alemanya) --- Hessen (Alemanya) --- Rin del Nord-Westfàlia (Alemanya) --- Saarland (Alemanya) --- Alemanya (República Democràtica) --- Alemanya (República Federal) --- Germània --- Sacre Imperi Romanogermànic --- Mathematicians --- Reformers --- Persons --- Klein, Félix. --- Biografies