Digitale Landwirtschaft untersuchen. Method(olog)ische Überlegungen zu einem neuen Forschungsfeld

Der Text geht am Beispiel einer explorativen Forschung zur Digitalisierung der Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz der Frage nach den methodologischen Erfordernissen zur Erforschung von Digitalisierungsprozessen und Digitalitäten nach. Es wird dafür plädiert die Veränderungen, die sich daraus ergeben, dass sich digitale Technologien in verschiedene Alltage einschreiben, als so fundamental zu betrachten, dass sich ontologische Fragen davon ableiten. Die Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft ist dafür ein fruchtbares Forschungsfeld, da sich hier Umordnungen in den Verhältnissen von Menschen, nicht-menschlichen Organismen und digitalen Technologien zeigen.Using the example of explorative research on the digitization of agriculture in Switzerland, the text elaborates on the methodological requirements for researching digitization processes and digitalities. It is argued that the changes that result from the fact that digital technologies are inscribed in various everyday lives should be viewed as so fundamental that ontological questions derive from them. Digitization in agriculture is a fertile field of research, which is showing changes in the relationships between people, non-human organisms and digital technologies

Academic News: Aaron Michael Butts, new Professor of Semitic Studies with a focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean studies at Universität Hamburg, with the project BeInf—Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity

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Critical Edition (with translation) and Textual Analysis of Gädlä Yǝmʕatta

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Nachträge zur Edition einer syrischen ṭaḇliṯo in Aethiopica 24 (Bausi und Desreumaux 2021)

Kurze Anmerkungen und Korrekturen zur Veröffentlichung einer syrischen Altartafel in Aethiopica 24 (2021). Behandelt werden in erster Linie die Lesung, die Transkription und die Datierung der Tafel.The following short note offers some comments and corrections on the first edition of a Syriac ṭaḇliṯo published in Aethiopica 24 (Bausi and Desreumaux 2021). It particularly focuses on a few issues of the reading of the text, the transcription of Syriac, and the date

Once Again on ʾbk wdm in Ethiopian Sabaic

In an article published in this journal in 2010, Norbert Nebes argued that ʾbk wdm is an apotropaic formula, which can be translated, for instance in the case of RIÉ 9, as ‘und Waddum ist dein (göttlicher) Vater als Schutz vor einem Widersacher’ (wʾbk wdm [b]n ʿtkm). In contrast, it is proposed here that ʾbk wdm continues the previous list of deity names, as already suggested in 1976 by Roger Schneider. Key to this argument is the distribution of the concluding prepositional phrases bn kl mrʿm, ‘from everyone who is malicious’, and bn ʿtkm, ‘from an adversary’, which only occur in inscriptions that have b-s¹qt, ‘by the protection of’. Thus, the following formula is proposed: b-s¹qt DN(s) bn X, ‘by the protection of divine name(s) from X’

Melaku Geboye Desta, Dereje Feyissa Dori, and Mamo Esmelealem Mihretu, eds, Ethiopia in the Wake of Political Reforms

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“Classical” liberalism in France, from the middle of the 19th century to World War I : Strengths and paradoxes of a thwarted society project

Why did “classical” liberalism – during its European golden age in the mid-19th century – never give birth, in France, to a political movement which could be influent enough to carry its whole society project? The environments of political economy, which were the authentic representatives of this wave, seemed to have had a hard time finding their place within a contentious context inherited from the French Revolution, but also fully investing in the game of democracy. As the defenders of free trade and limited state power, liberals also faced the increasing difficulty to see their ideas being questioned at the turn of the 20th century. It is thus necessary to go back to the very definition of French “classical” liberals, in order to better highlight their ambitions, their failures and their inherent practices, and better understand what constitute for them, and in many ways, their own identity

New Readings and Interpretations on the Inscribed Stele from Ḥənzat (HS1)

In 1974 the renowned Ethiopianist Lanfranco Ricci inspected the site of Ḥǝnzat in central Tǝgray. Inter alia, he inspected and photographed a stele with a lengthy inscription. In 2014, Yohannes Gebre Selassie published an article on an inscription which he labelled HS1, and which he believed to be a second inscription on a stele found in Ḥǝnzat. However, close inspection reveals that HS1 is the same stele which Ricci saw and described. The contribution here presents evidence to support this claim. In addition, some new interpretations are offered as alternatives to Yohannes Gebre Selassie’s first translation

apropos: Perspektiven auf 5 Jahre, und 10 Ausgaben und 155 Artikel

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Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Digitalen? Einleitung und Problemaufriss

Der tiefgreifende Wandel der Digitalisierung und damit zunehmenden Medialität auch im (Wissenschafts-)Alltag ermöglicht veränderte Prinzipien der Wissensproduktion und eine paradigmatische Neuausrichtung der Kulturanalyse. Die Einleitung eröffnet Perspektiven auf diesen Wandel und ordnet Spannungsfelder sowie Herausforderungen ein. Es wird danach gefragt, wie digitale Methoden den Forschungsprozess verändern. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes werden vorgestellt.The deep change of digitization and the interconnected mediality within the (scientific) everyday life enables changing perspectives of knowledge production and an paradigmatic realignment of cultural analysis. The introduction opens perspectives on this change, fields of tension and challenges. How do digital methods change the research process? The contributions of the issue are presented