1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146606603321

Titolo

Annual report / / Department of Transport and Regional Services

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Canberra], : [AusInfo], [1999]-

ISSN

1443-3389

Soggetti

Transportation and state - Australia

Transportation - Australia - Finance

Transportation and state

Transportation - Finance

Periodicals.

Statistics.

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451710903321

Autore

Rutsky R. L

Titolo

High techn [[electronic resource] ] : art and technology from the machine aesthetic to the posthuman / / R.L. Rutsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-9030-8

0-8166-5292-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

701/.05

Soggetti

Art and technology - Philosophy

Technology - Aesthetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-185) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Question concerning High Tech; 1. The Spirit of Utopia and the Birth of the Cinematic Machine; 2. The Mediation of Technology and Gender; 3. The Avant-Garde Techne and the Myth of Functional Form; 4. Within the Space of High Tech; 5. Technological Fetishism and the Techno-Cultural Unconscious; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In an age of high tech, our experience of technology has changed tremendously, yet the definition of technology has remained largely unquestioned. High Techne redresses this gap in thinking about technology, examining the shifting relations of technology, art, and culture from the beginnings of modernity to contemporary technocultures. Progressing from the major art movements of modernism to contemporary science fiction and cultural theory, Rutsky provides clear and compelling evidence of a shift in the cultural conceptions of technology and art.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910647381003321

Autore

Wenkel Christian

Titolo

The Environment and the European Public Sphere : Perceptions, Actors, Policies / / edited by Christian Wenkel, Eric Bussiere, Anahita Grisoni, Helene Miard-Delacroix

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winwick, Cambridgeshire : , : The White Horse Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781912186198

1912186195

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 pages)

Disciplina

363.70094

Soggetti

Environmental policy - Europe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES -- CHAPTER 1. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF



LANDSCAPES: A EUROPEAN CONVERGENCE? Charles-François Mathis -- CHAPTER 2. THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURE OF CATASTROPHES François Walter -- CHAPTER 3. EUROPE AND CHERNOBYL: CONTESTED LOCALISATIONS OF THE ACCIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT Karena Kalmbach -- CHAPTER 4. THE WESTERN EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE COLD WAR: BETWEEN MODEL, UTILISATION AND DENUNCIATION Michel Dupuy -- PART II THE SHAPING AND USE OF THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISTS AND MOVEMENTS -- CHAPTER 5. THE IMPACT OF EAST GERMAN NATURE CONSERVATIONISTS ON THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Astrid Mignon Kirchhof -- CHAPTER 6. WETLANDS OF PROTEST. SEEKING TRANSNATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN HUNGARY'S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Daniela Neubacher -- CHAPTER 7. TOWARDS A 'EUROPE OF STRUGGLES'? THREE VISIONS OF EUROPE IN THE EARLY ANTI-NUCLEAR ENERGY MOVEMENT 1975-79 Andrew Tompkins -- CHAPTER 8. ENTERING THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL ARENA, ADAPTING TO EUROPE: GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL 1987-1993. Liesbeth van de Grift, Hans Rodenburg and Guus Wieman -- PART III. FROM A PUBLIC TO A POLITICAL SPHERE: THE ROLE OF GREEN PARTIES AND PARLIAMENTARY ACTIVITY IN SETTING AN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA -- CHAPTER 9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN PARTIES IN EUROPE: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES 1970-2015  Emilie van Haute -- CHAPTER 10. WILL EUROPE EVER BECOME 'GREEN'? THE GREEN PARTIES' PRO-EUROPEAN AND FEDERALIST TURNING POINT SINCE THE 1990s  Giorgio Grimaldi.

CHAPTER 11. A TOUCH OF GREEN AMID THE GREY. EUROPE DURING THE FORMATIVE PHASE OF THE GERMAN GREENS FROM THE 1970s TO THE 1980s: BETWEEN REJECTION AND REFORMULATION Silke Mende -- CHAPTER 12. ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOMAND FRANCE FROM THE 1970s TO THE 1990s  Eva Oberloskamp -- PART IV. EUROPEANISING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES FROM BELOW? -- CHAPTER 13. RESPONDING TO THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC? PUBLIC DEBATES, SOCIETAL ACTORS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEANENVIRONMENTAL POLICY  Jan-Henrik Meyer -- CHAPTER 14. THE MAJOR STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Sophie Baziadoly -- CHAPTER 15. MULTI-LEVEL LEARNING: HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION DRAWS LESSONS FROM WATER MANAGEMENT AT THE RIVER BASIN LEVEL. Marjolein van Eerd and Duncan Liefferink -- CHAPTER 16. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRENCH AND GERMAN ENERGY SYSTEMS FROM 1973 TO THE 2000s Christopher Fabre -- CHAPTER 17.TRAJECTORIES OF EUROPEANENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE SINCE THE1970sAnthony R. Zito -- INDEX -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.

Sommario/riassunto

Addressing the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject - one that is commonly distorted by a national prism - this volume shows how perceptions of the environment are increasingly converging and how these convergences of views across political or linguistic borders run exert an  influence not only on political debates but also on political decisions across Europe.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557556603321

Autore

Rosar Ulrich

Titolo

Ostasienwissenschaften : Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2016: Florian Coulmas / / Ulrich Rosar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2017

Düsseldorf : , : düsseldorf university press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9783110720341

3110720345

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 p.)

Collana

Reden zur Verleihung des Meyer-Struckmann-Preises durch die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Soggetti

HISTORY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Grußwort -- Grußwort -- Grußwort -- Danksagung -- Schriftenverzeichnis

Sommario/riassunto

Mit dem Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, 2016 ausgeschrieben für Ostasienwissenschaften, wurde Professor Dr. Florian Coulmas ausgezeichnet. Florian Coulmas ist Senior-Professor für Sprache und Kultur des modernen Japan am Institut für Ostasiatische Studien der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Die Jury würdigt mit Coulmas einen Wissenschaftler, der als Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien in Tokio wegweisend die internationale Forschung zum demographischen Wandel einer nicht-westlichen Industrienation bereichert hat. Nach Einschätzung der Jury besitzt der Linguist, Soziologe und Japanologe sowohl durch seine fachliche Expertise im Bereich der sozialwissenschaftlichen Japanforschung als auch als Soziolinguist ein internationales Renommee. Im deutschsprachigen Raum machte sich Coulmas darüber hinaus als populärer Sachbuch-Autor zu aktuelle Japanthemen einen Namen.