Neoliberalismus und Stadtpolitik in den USA: Rezension zu "Der erschöpfte Staat: Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus" von Ariane Leendertz

Ariane Leendertz: Der erschöpfte Staat: Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition 2022. 978-3-86854-365-

Web browser as platform for audiovisual performances

The present study aims to address the following research question: how to create a tool for audiovisual performance, allowing for real-time usage of shared online visual resources, which can be customizable, and used across a variety of different hardware platforms? To address this issue, we have developed AVVX (AudioVisual Vector eXchange), a novel application for audiovisual performances, based on open web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). This paper contextualizes AVVX with related work and technologies, and then presents the design and development of the software. Taking as a starting point a workshop conducted with AVVX, the project has been evaluated by means of a questionnaire and user tests. The results of the tests indicate that the web browser, together with open web technologies, can provide a foundation for a customizable, content-sharing and multi-platform approach to audiovisual performance

Web Browser as Platform for Audiovisual Performances

The present study aims to address the following research question: how to create a tool for audiovisual performance, allowing for real-time usage of shared online visual resources, which can be customizable, and used across a variety of different hardware platforms? To address this issue, we have developed AVVX (AudioVisual Vector eXchange), a novel application for audiovisual performances, based on open web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). This paper contextualizes AVVX with related work and technologies, and then presents the design and development of the software. Taking as a starting point a workshop conducted with AVVX, the project has been evaluated by means of a questionnaire and user tests. The results of the tests indicate that the web browser, together with open web technologies, can provide a foundation for a customizable, content-sharing and multi-platform approach to audiovisual performance

Leadership in Modern Times. Reflections on Yves Cohen’s Le siècle des chefs1

This review article discusses Yves Cohen’s recent book Le siècle des chefs: Une histoire transnationale du commandement et de l’autorité (1890-1940 ). Cohen provides an extensive analysis of discourses on leadership in France, the Soviet Union, Germany and the United States. He also studies how leadership was practiced, by French and Soviet factory directors as well as by Stalin himself. While giving due credit to the scope and sophistication of his book, the review article asks whether Cohen’s focus on scientific discourses and highly structured organisations leaves sufficient room for contingency. It argues that interwar political leadership in interwar Europe was not least about seeing and seizing opportunities in unforeseeable circumstances, often thriving on a positive fascination with crises and states of emergency. It also points out that, contrary to what the combined title and subtitle suggest, “le siècle des chefs” hardly ended in 1939, and that the quest for leadership continues to preoccupy present-day societies, cultures and polities

Die „Vertrauenskrise“ der Justiz in der Weimarer Republik

Siemens D. Die „Vertrauenskrise“ der Justiz in der Weimarer Republik. In: Föllmer M, Graf R, eds. Die „Krise“ der Weimarer Republik. Zur Kritik eines Deutungsmusters. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag; 2005: 139-163

Kühle Romantiker. Zum Geschichtsverständnis der „jungen Generation“ in der Weimarer Republik

Siemens D. Kühle Romantiker. Zum Geschichtsverständnis der „jungen Generation“ in der Weimarer Republik. In: Baumeister M, Föllmer M, Müller P, eds. Die Kunst der Geschichte. Historiographie, Ästhetik, Erzählung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; 2009: 189-214