Author: Dolores L. Augustine File Type: pdf In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology mergedwith a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology becamean important part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how Communists saw their system andhow citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship betweena dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end ofthe Second World War through the 1980s. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews,Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists interactions with the East German system,examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the partys totalitarian impulses. Sheexplains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after WorldWar II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientistsattempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to theirprofessional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technologyproduced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures ofinnovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She exploresindividual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and theways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control ofresearch during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustineargues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technologyas indispensable to progress and industrial development.Dolores L. Augustine is Associate Professorof History at St. Johns University. She is the author of Patricians and Parvenus Wealth and HighSociety in Wilhemine Germany.

Author: Sabrina Crewe File Type: pdf From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, you probably think you know your body pretty well. But did you know that there are many different microorganisms that share your body? In Your Body explores how these tiny creatures function in your body.

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen File Type: pdf This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of emotions as being integral to daily life, broadening our understanding by examining both core emotions and those that are often overlooked or omitted from more conventional studies. Bringing together theoretical and empirical studies from scholars across a range of subjects, including sociology, psychology, cultural studies, history, politics and cognitive science, this international collection centres on the everyday-ness of emotional experience. **About the Author Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is concerned with topics such as crime, utopia, ethics, death and dying, palliative care, qualitative methods and social theory. His recent publications include Beyond Bauman, Postmortal Society, The Interactionist Imagination and Liquid Criminology.

Author: Colin Gardner File Type: pdf Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuzes work. These 14 essays apply Deleuzes work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human. This collection creates new questions about what the age of the Anthropocene means by animal and analyses and explores examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal. **