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Sollen embryonale Forschung, Präimplantationsdiagnostik und therapeutisches Klonen erlaubt sein oder verboten werden? Zu den gesellschaftlichen Gruppen, die diese Debatten maßgeblich prägen, zählen nicht zuletzt die Kirchen. Die Legitimität und die Funktionalität ihrer religiösen Interventionen im »säkularen« Staat sind jedoch umstritten. Dieses Buch analysiert anhand einer vergleichenden Untersuchung zu Deutschland und den USA, wie sich religiöse Akteure am öffentlichen Diskurs der Biopolitik beteiligen und welchen Einfluss sie auf gesetzliche Regelungen nehmen.

Häufig geht es in Literaturdebatten um den Umgang mit Geschichte: um Erinnerungskonflikte, bei denen die eine Erinnerung mit anderen Erinnerungen konfrontiert und so die gemeinsame Gegenwart von unterschiedlichen, wenn nicht entgegengesetzten Orten und Zeiten aus gedeutet wird. Die Beiträger•innen nehmen die Konvergenz von erinnerungspolitischen Debatten und literarischen Auseinandersetzungen mit der Gegenwart zum Anlass, um nach den »Aggregaten der Gegenwart« (Stephan Braese) zu fragen, zu denen sich zurückliegende und aktuelle erinnerungspolitische Standortbestimmungen im literarischen Feld verdichten. Dabei beleuchten sie auch deren Einfluss auf das historische und kritische Verständnis unserer Zeit.

“A fascinating, investigative dive... both alarming and enlightening.” — Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money The definitive account of how a group of American Catholic bishops are using “dark money” and allying with ultra-right evangelicals in an attempt to remake America... Seasoned Catholic journalist and former war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay tells the story of how the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have become one of the most formidable and reactionary forces in America — by campaigning to alter democratic institutions under the guise of religious liberty, and allying with major right-wing contributors such as the Kochs. In fact, many of the bishops—two-hundred and twenty-nine men, almost all white and beyond middle age—are such staunch opponents of Pope Francis that some US Catholics fear a schism with Rome. The influence of these bishops can be traced in recent news stories—such was when they maneuvered to deny the Eucharist to pro-choice politicians like President Biden. With their lay partners, the bishops also help shepherd cases into the Supreme Court that change the law of the land, as with Roe v. Wade. But as McConahay details, that's just the tip of the iceberg. In an investigation reminiscent of Jane Mayer's Dark Money, she uncovers an ominous and long-term political strategy of attacking secular, liberal democracy by waging war on democratic norms and institutions.

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices.Suzanne Lacy's Foreword and section introduction authors Anne Balsamo, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Loveless, Karen Moss, and Stephanie Rothenberg present twenty-five in-depth case studies by established and emerging contemporary artists including Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Artists offer firsthand insight into how they activate methods used in socially engaged art projects from the twentieth century and incorporated new technologies to create twenty-first century, socially engaged, digital art practices. Works highlighted in this book span collaborative image-making, immersive experiences, telematic art, time machines, artificial intelligence, and physical computing. These reflective case studies reveal how the artists collaborate with participants and communities, and have found ways to expand, transform, reimagine, and create new platforms for meaningful exchange in both physical and virtual spaces.An invaluable resource for students and scholars of art, technology, and new media, as well as artists interested in exploring these intersections.