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1. A Reader's Guide to the Teachings of Indie

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Franklin, George, Buber, Martin, Mehlman, Bernard H., Padawer, Gabriel E., Chernov, Mstyslav, Leonard, Peter, Helbing, Felix, Brady, C. Townsend, and Searcey, Rod

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Ukraine, Bishop, Elizabeth
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The New York Times recently ran an article about the joy of stoop books, or the serendipity of discovering a book you didn't know you needed. Indieland provides a similar [...]

Published
2024

17. Building the Modular Body: Gender, Labor, and Trauma in the Work of Aleksei Gastev

Author

Helbing, Felix

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This interdisciplinary dissertation contributes to literary and historical scholarship on early Soviet culture by focusing on representations of gender, labor, and embodiment in the writings of poet, metalworker, and theorist Aleksei Gastev. Gastev’s work has been little translated to English, often regarded as a peculiar entry in the already quixotic utopianism of the early Soviet avant-garde. Beyond situating Gastev’s work in its Soviet literary and sociocultural context, the dissertation seeks to make Gastev legible as a cultural theorist whose ideas reverberate in unexpected ways with more recent post-humanist critical theory practices developed in the past two decades. This research has been informed by Donna Haraway’s writings on intersubjectivity and collective consciousness, which formed the backdrop for the dissertation’s approach to Gastev’s mechanized collectivism; Jane Bennett’s writings on human-machine assemblages as “confederations of actants” with diffuse agency; and McKenzie Wark’s “low theory,” which challenges cultural theorists to think in interdisciplinary terms to make creative connections. Gastev’s utopian vision for human embodiment and human-machine interaction has high potential to provide insights about 21st century human optimization projects–e.g., Noom, the Quantified Self, Fitbit.

Published
2023

20. Restoration measures foster biodiversity of important primary consumers within calcareous grasslands.

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Helbing, Felix, Fartmann, Thomas, and Poniatowski, Dominik

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*GRASSLANDS, *GRASSLAND restoration, *NATURE conservation, *ENDANGERED species, *SPECIES diversity, *BIOINDICATORS
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Despite great efforts in European nature conservation, semi-natural habitats such as calcareous grasslands are still suffering considerable declines due to abandonment. Shrub cutting and subsequent grazing or mowing are effective restoration measures to counteract the adverse effects of management cessation. Here, for the first time, we used leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) as bioindicators to assess the conservation value of restored calcareous grasslands. We compared environmental conditions and leafhopper assemblages of 21 restored grasslands and 21 regularly managed sites (control) within the largest area of calcareous grasslands in the northern part of Germany. Furthermore, we applied Generalised Linear Mixed-effects Models (GLMM) to assess the effects of environmental parameters on species richness of leafhoppers within the restored grasslands. After a period of three to eight years, the restoration measures had led to species-rich leafhopper assemblages, including both habitat specialists and threatened species. However, we still found clear differences in leafhopper composition compared to the control. Within the restored grasslands, a pronounced field layer and an increased number of host plants positively affected species richness. In conclusion, the restored grasslands form open fringe-like habitat structures that clearly enhance the conservation value of calcareous grasslands by (i) harbouring numerous exclusive (indicator) species leading to a higher leafhopper diversity at the habitat level and (ii) by providing habitats for several habitat specialists which occurred only rarely on control grasslands. In order to maintain or even increase the biodiversity of calcareous grasslands, we recommend a combination of traditional grazing and small-scale shrub cutting. • First study using leafhoppers for the evaluation of calcareous grassland restoration • Restoration measures have formed open fringe-like habitat structures within calcareous grasslands. • These new habitat structures were colonized by species-rich leafhopper assemblages. • Species composition clearly differed between restored and extant calcareous grasslands. • Restored sites provided habitats for several specialised species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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