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Arts & Humanities

Uncopyable? Creativity and Judgment in the Age of AI

There’s no such thing as a moral machine – yet. In times of digital offloading, we need to cultivate human creativity once more. After all, real thinking begins where certainty breaks down, not where it is enforced.

Arts & Humanities

Silent Night, Political Night: Christmas Films in Cold War America

Christmas films like to pretend they’re harmless seasonal comfort, but history suggests otherwise. A new book examines how postwar American cinema used Christmas to negotiate politics, patriotism, and conformity under the pressures of McCarthyism.

Arts & Humanities

Glorifizierung einer kalten Welt: Florian Völker im Interview über ‚Kälte-Pop‘

Sie sangen von Eisbären und Mensch-Maschinen, zelebrierten Emotionslosigkeit und Entfremdung in einer technologisierten Welt. Wir sprachen mit dem Historiker Florian Völker über den Aufstieg der ‚Kälte-Pop‘-Bands vor fast 50 Jahren in der BRD.

Arts & Humanities

Call For Manuscripts: Ecocriticism Unbound

We are looking for innovative book proposals for our new series “Ecocriticism Unbound”. We are particularly interested in work that redefines the limits of ecocriticism and brings posthumanist theory to bear on a variety of cultural texts.

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