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Um Dynamiken und Netzwerke in den untersuchten Clubszenen und urbanen Räumen Berlins wissenschaftlich erfassen zu können, bedarf es einer multidimensionalen Herangehensweise. Ethnografi sche Methoden sind dabei von größter Bedeutung: teilnehmende Beobachtung im Alltag sowie auf Veranstaltungen vor Ort, fokussierte Gespräche mit Szenegängern und reflektierende Berichte über die eigene Positionierung als Forscherin. Das gesammelte Datenmaterial ist vielfältig: detaillierte Feldnotizen nach jedem Club- oder Barbesuch, aber auch nach relevanten Gesprächen, sei es »face-to-face«, über E-Mail- oder Chatverkehr nehmen den größten Part ein. Bildmaterial wie Plakate, Flyer und selbst gemachte Fotos in Clubs ergänzen das Schriftmaterial auch visuell. Das Verfolgen stadt- und kulturpolitischer Entwicklungen, Beobachtungen sozioökonomischer Gegebenheiten in den jeweiligen Szenen und der Einfl uss urbaner Infrastruktur auf das Ausgehverhalten sind weitere Mosaiksteine, die dazu beitragen, ein möglichst ganzheitliches Bild entstehen zu lassen. Nach der Feldforschungs- und Datenerhebungsphase wird das gesamte Datenmaterial ab Januar 2011 einer qualitativen Analyse unterzogen.
The impact of the end of the Cold War on United States foreign and defense policy in the 1990s is frequently misunderstood within the field of International Relations. On the one hand, it is often assumed that the US was able to achieve a substantial ‘peace dividend’ after finally claiming victory over the Soviet Union. Yet it is also common for scholars to see the early potential for a more peaceful international order after the cessation of Cold War hostilities as having been frustrated by a series of unexpected events during the 1990s. On the other hand, scholars who focus on understanding contemporary developments and the prosecution of US foreign and defense policy in the Global War on Terror often restrict their analysis to the unfolding of recent events, rather than critically investigating the roots of contemporary US defense policy, which lie in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1989. This thesis puts forward the notion that the contemporary parameters of US security policy can only be fully understood when they are placed within a broader analytical narrative that incorporates the politics of US defense policymaking during the late-1980s, as well as the decade following the end of the Cold War. In doing so, it suggests two key factors not sufficiently highlighted in the existing literature. The first is that analyzing how US ‘defense coalitions’ are formed, which conditions facilitate their influence on the defense policy agenda, and what the consequences of this are for US security strategy is crucial to understanding the intense political struggles that inform US threat perception, strategic planning, and the development of major weapons systems. Building on earlier theories of the Military-Industrial Complex, the concept of defense coalitions establishes greater analytical leverage for providing a compelling account of the dynamics of change and continuity in US defense policy during the 1990s. The second factor is the importance of studying the use of rhetorical action, which is aimed at the construction of an overarching security narrative, for understanding how political entrepreneurs within the US defense policy community have sought to shape the post-Cold War defense policy agenda. In sum, the thesis argues that political elites who were committed to the maintenance of a high volume of US defense spending in ‘peacetime’ were able to shape how external events were interpreted within the defense policy community, in order to construct a new overarching security narrative that helped to legitimize their policy goals.
Interview with Dario Azzellini, author of The Business of War and the new documentary film, Comuna Under Construction. What is it about Venezuela that is so interesting? Since 2003 I have practically lived in Venezuela. What motivates me is that I am interested in the social transformation process happening here. It’s a different type of revolution, a new left that draws from all the experiences of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. ...
In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat vor allem die Frage nach der Übernahme der (Staats-)Macht für Kontroversen innerhalb der Linken gesorgt. Ob der Staat übernommen wird, bis zu einem bestimmten Punkt mit staatlichen Institutionen zusammengearbeitet werden solle oder doch lieber jede Kooperation vermieden werden müsse, war ein zentraler Streitpunkt. Die Wahl verschiedener linker Regierungen in Lateinamerika, vor allem die Fälle Venezuelas und Boliviens, spielen eine zentrale Rolle. Mit der Wahl von Hugo Chávez zum Präsidenten Venezuelas und seiner Amtsübernahme Anfang 1999 begann ein Prozess wirksamer und auf eine sehr breite linke Bewegung gründender sozialer Transformationen, der die Linke zwingt, bestimmte tradierte Konzepte neu zu denken.
La musique et le rêve
(2010)
Adorno, in his posthumous work Beethoven. Philosophy of music, grasps the deep relationship between music and dream: “we are in music, as well as we are in dream”. Music is the coming of a non-intentional truth, that is never caught by images and words. In the same way, dream follows the logic of a non-giudicatory synthesis and is incompatible with the category of dialectical totality: in dream, truth announces her-self as it fades out. According to Adorno, the dimension of opening typical to dream and music collides with the pretension of philosophical discourse that aims at the total revelation.