Zierde für das Diesseits und das Jenseits: Bronzezeitlicher Schmuck aus Kreta

Der Beitrag liefert einen kurzen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Schmuckherstellung im bronzezeitlichen Kreta. Da es mangels schriftlicher Quellen aus dieser Zeit nicht einfach ist, Aussagen zur Tragweise und Funktion der einzelnen Schmucktypen zu machen, werden neben der Analyse der Grabbefunde auch zeitgenössische bildliche Darstellungen auf Fresken, Siegeln etc. zur Funktionsbestimmung des minoischen Schmucks herangezogen

The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities

This dissertation focuses on the way Romantic-period philosophers, artists and writers were critically engaged with various Romantic-period disciplines, those branches of learning that were complexly enmeshed with the inhuman and putting increasing pressure on the concept of “the human.” Over the course of five chapters, this study pursues the problematic of “the human” across the borders of philosophy, where Immanuel Kant entertains extraterrestrials while organizing the new discipline of pragmatic anthropology; the early and late illuminated work of poet-engraver William Blake, which enables us to think the inhumanities within the human; the closet drama and poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which think the inhumanity of life; and the fiction of Mary Shelley, as a thought experiment about the end of man and posthuman survival of man’s cultural achievements. “The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities” analyzes the human at its borders with the inhuman in Romantic literature. It examines the erosion of these borders through the way key disciplines (aesthetics, literature) were thematized in literary texts by Blake and the Shelleys. This thesis makes the case that a theoretical thinking about the end of man, of a humanism associated with man and his disciplinary formations, and a reflection on what comes after this end, all have their inception in Romantic thought. Here, Romanticism is a sign of history for man’s fragilization, for a privileged conception of man and of a certain understanding of life, a counter-discourse to Enlightenment humanism. What emerges – and this is the real importance of this endeavour – is a more comprehensive portrait of the ways in which the human and a decidedly humanistic understanding of life in the long Romantic period were widely and complexly enmeshed with – to follow Blake – an “innumerable company” of inhumans, including ether, rocks, plants, infusoria, and animals. This study reflects on our contemporary lives within what is increasingly being called the “posthumanities,” and hopes that as we move towards this new humanities we will acknowledge and better understand our debt to Romantic thought, our model for a hybridized interdisciplinary thought wherein art and science, human and inhuman are frequently entwined

Programming Idioms for Transactional Events

Transactional events (TE) are an extension of Concurrent ML (CML), a programming model for synchronous message-passing. Prior work has focused on TE's formal semantics and its implementation. This paper considers programming idioms, particularly those that vary unexpectedly from the corresponding CML idioms. First, we solve a subtle problem with client-server protocols in TE. Second, we argue that CML's wrap and guard primitives do not translate well to TE, and we suggest useful workarounds. Finally, we discuss how to rewrite CML protocols that use abort actions

Heidelberg University Library and its Special Subject Collection in Art History

The article provides a short survey of the history and the services of the Special Subject Collection "Medieval and Modern Art History (up to 1945)" / "Art Studies" at the Heidelberg University Library funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation)

Case Studies in Using Interval Data Energy Models for Savings Verification: Lessons from the Grocery Sector

The use of whole building utility interval data for verifying energy savings from energy efficiency projects has become an attractive option as this data is increasingly available. Formal protocols, such as IPMVP Option C and ASHRAE Guideline 14, describe a whole building savings approach, but may require up to one full year of post-implementation data in order to claim annual energy savings. Many projects cannot absorb this long timeline. This paper builds on previous research and investigates strategies to reduce the required post- implementation monitoring time. Five grocery energy efficiency projects were evaluated using whole building electric interval data to investigate how data resolution, monitoring period length and timing of the post-implementation monitoring period impact the accuracy of annualized savings estimates