Publications

“Library of Artistic Print on Demand. Post-Digital Publishing in Times of Platform Capitalism,” written by our PI Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff, has just been published. Following its launch at the New York Art Book Fair, further presentations take place on October 30, 2025 (Hochschule für Kü...

Our postdoctoral researcher Antonia Villinger has edited the essay collection „Fossile Fiktionen. Kohle als Energiequelle in der Literatur von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart“. The climate crisis and the demand for a sustainable energy transition are shaping socio-political discussions. Against this back...

The authoritative essay collection “Medienregulierung” (Media Regulation) (edited by Hardy Gundlach, formerly together with Wolfgang Seufert) has been published in its third edition by Nomos. It includes an article by our PI Svenja Hagenhoff on the protection and utilization of intellectual prop...

The second volume of the RTG 2806 series »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit / Literature and the Public Sphere« has been published: Friedrich, Sabine (2025): Semifiktionen. Hybrides Erzählen im digitalen Zeitalter. Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71111-8 For some time now, there has b...

In the recently published essay collection “Schwarze deutsche Literatur” (edited by Jeannette Oholi), our fellow Laura Sturtz and Selma Rezgui have contributed an interview with two central representatives of the black German movement: "Aktivistisch Lesen und Schreiben. Ein Gespräch über Literatur,...

Antonia Villinger has co-edited the special issue “Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy” with Dr. Sinah Theres Kloß (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), published in the cultural studies journal Body & Society. The journal examines the public reception and staging of...

An essay collection on ‘the posthuman condition’ in contemporary literature and culture has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan with a contribution by our fellow Ruxandra Teodorescu. Her article examines posthuman cognitive ecologies and AI moral agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice (2013...

Written by our PI Christian Schicha. This volume first oultines communication models and ethical requirements for communication processes such as public sphere, democracy, freedom. In a following part it considers norm violations in the form of propaganda, populism, disinformation and anti-Semit...

Our PI Svenja Hagenhoff co-authored an article on 21st-century publishing in 'Handbuch Verlag: Geschichte – Aufgaben – Perspektiven': Publishing is a constant function of the media system that transforms intellectual content into usable objects and ensures their public accessibility. Digitizatio...

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the 'Stock Exchange Association of the German Book Trade', an essay collection on important events from 1825 to 2025 has been published. It contains 5 contributions from our PI Svenja Hagenhoff. 200 Years of Book Trade, Knowledge Transfer and Cultural I...