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small but fabulously enjoyable collection of comic book hero-to-album cover conversions of illustrator Cliff Chiang.
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Where cult films go, academics will follow. New in bookstores, and already in its second printing, is “The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies,” an essay collection edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe (Indiana University Press, $24.95). The book is, like the Dude himself, a little rough around the edges. But it’s worth an end-of-the-year holiday pop-in. Ideally you’d read it with a White Russian — the Dude’s cocktail of choice — in hand.
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As the Aughts come to an end, it's time to look forward at the things that are going to shape (destroy?) the world as we know it in the decade to come. What will the '10s bring us?
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Computer spielen im Film zumeist eine Nebenrolle. Dort, wo ihnen die Hauptrolle zugewiesen wird, erfahren wir viel über unsere Visionen und Ängste im Zeitalter der Mikroelektronik. In einer mehrteiligen Textreihe werden Filme der 1970er bis 1990er Jahre darauf hin betrachtet, wie Computer in ihnen dargestellt werden.
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Gespräch mit dem Soziologen Hans Jürgen Krysmanski über globale und nationale Macht- und Funktionseliten. Teil 2
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Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”.
