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"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--

The Northern unicorn -- Beyond the borders of the known world -- Left of sunrise -- Onerous journeys to lands of the midnight sun -- Northern wonderland -- Tired of the South: the new love affair with the North -- Discovering the Norse myths -- A confidence man and a blind bard -- The scent of the arctic -- When East Was North -- Climate makes the man -- Shot through with gods and demons -- "To the North its end shall be cast" -- The dubious cradle of humanity -- The tactics of indigenous peoples -- A distant Atlantic island -- Victorians and Vikings -- Arctic mania and the discovery of America -- Dramatic cliffs and kaleidoscopic waves -- "For God's sake, don't look down!" -- The Farthest North -- The fin de siècle: great expanses and wind! -- Developing Nordic proclivities further -- The abyss of "racial science" -- "Aryan" brothers in the South -- Scandinavia, anti-Fascist bulwark -- Before the Second World War -- The eternal longing for the cold apocalypse -- The Bible is right after all -- The true North -- Last diamonds -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Introduction -- Prophets of Future Horrors Around 1900 -- The Sluggish Hate the Ambitious -- Peace, Civil War, Pogroms, 1918-1921 -- Against Minorities and Migrants -- Nations Strip Jews of Rights, 1918-1939 -- Expulsion and Deportation, 1938-1945 -- The Return of the Unwanted After 1945 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Bullshit and fast food : how Facebook used technology to create a world community -- Smartphone zombies -- New media : Pandora's gift -- Traffic cops versus detectives : how to approach digital media education -- Cannibalism and new media -- Uber-drive -- The death algorithm

In 'The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas', Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest computer. For example, the "death algorithm " is programmed into a driverless car to decide, in an emergency, whether to plow into a group of pedestrians, a mother and child, or a brick wall. Can such life-and-death decisions no longer be left to the individual human? In these incisive essays, Simanowski asks us to consider what it means to be living in a time when the president of the United States declares the mainstream media to be an enemy of the people-while Facebook transforms the people into the enemy of mainstream media. Simanowski describes smartphone zombies (or "smombies") who remove themselves from the physical world to the parallel universe of social media networks; calls on Adorno to help parse Trump's tweeting; considers transmedia cannibalism, as written text is transformed into a postliterate object; compares the economic and social effects of the sharing economy to a sixteen-wheeler running over a plastic bottle on the road; and explains why philosophy mat become the most important element in the automotive and technology industries.0Translated by Jefferson Chase.

Cover -- Title -- About the Book -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Rise of the Brenninkmeijers (1600-1918) -- From Itinerant Traders to Store Owners -- The Expansion of C&A in the Netherlands -- New Social Classes, New Customers -- The Entry into Menswear -- Changes in Corporate Governance -- The Move into Germany in 1911 -- C&A during the First World War -- Chapter 3 The Development of C&A between the Wars (1919-1938) -- C&A Holland -- The Move into the United Kingdom in 1922: C&A Modes -- C&A in Germany -- The Weimar Republic (1919-1932): C&A on the Path to Expansion -- Years of Inflation: The Flight to Tangible Assets and Production -- Renewed Expansion: More Branches, New Customers -- Bold Advertising in a Competitive Market -- C&A Deutschland during the Great Depression -- C&A in the Third Reich (1933-1939): Between Traditional Values and Opportunistic Pursuit of Profit -- Areas of Conflict: Foreigners, Catholics and Capitalists -- Suits, Dresses or Uniforms? Expanding Production -- Expansion of the Branch Network and Political Resistance -- Charity and Protection Money: "Account A" -- Advertising in a Totalitarian State -- Properties Yes, Companies No: C&A and "Aryanisation" -- A Highly Profitable, Multi-National Enterprise -- Chapter 4 Friend or Foe? A Multi-National Dutch Company in the Second World War (1939-1945) -- C&A Holland under German Occupation -- C&A Deutschland in the War Economy -- Retail during the War: Rationing instead of Advertising -- C&A as Producer: Wehrmacht Contracts, Production Contracted Abroad, Ghetto Production and Forced Labour -- C&A Modes in the "Blitz" -- Profits and Losses: C&A Businesses during the Second World War -- Chapter 5 C&A during the Cold War and the "Golden Age" (1945-1961)