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Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout , leading writers on new media -- including Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovich -- take on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-four contributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture; electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication, including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concrete specificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, including performances; context awareness; and claims on the real in the use of such terms as augmented reality and mixed reality.

Foreword / Thomas Gaehtgens and Justin Jampol -- A tempest of creativity: an introduction to Hungarian art and politics / Steven Mansbach, Isotta Poggi -- The art of fabricating realities and forgetting history / Isotta Poggi -- The 3ts: the Modernist puzzle in Cold War Hungary / Cristina Cuevas-Wolf -- Relations and reality: avant-garde artists and applied arts beyond the 3ts / Dávid Fehér -- The paradox of consumer objects and modern living in Hungary: approaches to understanding the culture of daily life, 1956-89 / Tibor Valuch -- Documentary traces of Hungarian event-based art / Katalin Cseh-Varga -- In the underground between East and West / Géza Perneczky

In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed "We are all Greeks," and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm's ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment.Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.

Introduction : cultural heritage and armed conflict : preserving art while protecting life / Frederik Rosén -- Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times / Derek Gillman -- The "cultural turn" and the reconstruction of heritage / Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers -- Mission impossible : weighing the protection of cultural property against human lives / Frederik Rosén -- Weaponizing culture : a limited defense of the destruction of cultural heritage in war / Duncan Macintosh -- The concept of cultural genocide / Martin Hamilton -- Combatting illicit trade in cultural objects to defend peace and security/ Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski -- Cultural property protection in the context of counter-terrorist financing : an emerging legal paradigm in the United States / Ricardo A. St. Hilaire -- Non-party obligations underlying the 1954 Hague Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, Protocol II / Elizabeth Varner --The International Criminal Court and cultural property : what is the crime? / Giulia Bernabei and Mark A. Drumbl -- Training for cultural property protection / Laurie W. Rush -- Wartime loot in American museums : lessons from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Victoria Reed -- Nazi-looting and internal and external colonial plundering : differences in responses / Jos van Beurden -- Syrian and Iraqi opinion on protecting, promoting and reconstructing heritage after the Islamic State / Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry -- The geopolitical context of cultural heritage destruction / Carsten Paludan-Müller.

The article provides an analysis of the aesthetic views of one of an interesting and original, but still, unfortunately, little studied Russian philosopher, V.E. Sesemann (1884–1963). Aesthetics occupied a leading position in Seseman's philosophical constructions, while remaining fully embedded in the philosophy of the Russian thinker. Continuing the traditions of transcendental philosophy, Sesemann considers aesthetics as a general theoretical discipline that combines all private and separate studies of the theme of beauty. As in his theory of knowledge, the fundamental element of his aesthetics is the phenomenon of experience, which is the general pre-subject basis of Sesemann's entire philosophical system. At the same time, however, aesthetic experience, in contrast to experience as such, is experience of a special kind. When identifying the specifics of aesthetic experience, the Russian philosopher attaches special importance to the study of the problem of form, which explains his attention to the work of Russian formalists. Arguing with the formalists and the German art theorist Heinrich Wölfflin and defending the nature of the form as lively and rhythmic, he also sees the positive aspects of these teachings. Sesemann develops his aesthetic ideas in a discussion with contemporary aesthetic theories. It is emphasized that Sesemann addressed the problems of aesthetics throughout his life and expressed his views on a variety of aesthetic problems: from theoretical and methodological to concrete practical and even applied ones. In his aesthetic concept, the Russian philosopher Vasily Emilevich Seseman tries to productively synthesize neo-Kantian and phenomenological approaches.