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One of the key notions posited in Brian Massumi's "Keywords for Affect," a supplement to The Power at the End of the Economy, is "affective politics." Massumi establishes a close connection between affect, aesthetics, politics and the body, stating: "Aesthetic politics brings the collectivity of shared events to the fore" and he continues to say that this is a "multiple bodily, potential for what might come." The problem German readers will encounter with these lines is that whenever "body," "com- munity," and "future" (Körper, Gemeinschaft, Zukunft) are mentioned in one sentence, they'll immediately be reminded of what Leni Riefenstahl demonstrated with her film Triumph des Willens (1935), the infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. Memories of the dark side of an aestheticization of political phenomena are roused. Many 1930s German directors, writers and painters were in line with Riefenstahl in being apologetic of the regime, often not explicitly, but via an atmospheric side by side with the ones in power. The underlying ideology of Riefenstahl's films, related texts, paintings and movies was what Walter Benjamin warned us of when he said: "Such is the aestheticizing of politics, as practiced by fascism. Communism replies by politicizing art." This article tries to relate Massumi's concept of attunement and affective politics to earlier speculations about "affective attunement" and to put into a historic context the attempts to replace rationality with bodily intensities.

In the following, I want to consider the establishment, stabilisation and semantic weighting of borders of normality as part of the education dispute in Baden-Württemberg. Within the spectrum of the normal, borders require both legitimisation and semantic solidification to obtain societal validity. I will focus on symbolic boundaries, which permeate social order and create hierarchies between groups in society. "Symbolic boundaries are often used to enforce, maintain, normalize, or rationalize social boundaries as exemplified by the use of culture markers in class distinctions […] or cognitive stereotyping in gender inequalities." (Lamont/Molnár 2002: 186) Such boundaries manifest as part of a society's social order and entail consequences of in- and exclusion. They cause a classification and aggregation of individuals, which imply social difference and real-world effects for those affected. My analysis explores the question of how symbolic borders are drawn in the aforementioned dispute and how the separation as well as differentiation among two groups – homosexuals and heterosexuals – are constructed and legitimized. For this purpose, I refer to the results of a discourse analysis conducted with newspaper articles about the education dispute in Baden-Württemberg.

Auch außerhalb des Vertragskonzerns sind Verlustausgleichspflichten des herrschenden Unternehmens im Aktienrecht denkbar. Das gilt insbesondere in den Fällen der "qualifizierten Nachteilszufügung". Nachdem der Bundesgerichtshof in seiner "Trihotel"-Entscheidung für die Existenzvernichtungshaftung des GmbH-Gesellschafters abermals einen neuen Weg eingeschlagen hat, gilt es, die notwendigen Konsequenzen für das Aktienrecht zu ziehen. Dazu präzisiert der Autor zunächst den verbreiteten Begriff der "qualifizierten Nachteilszufügung". Um diesem Phänomen interessengerecht zu begegnen, ist auch in der Zeit nach "Trihotel" eine Verlustausgleichspflicht des herrschenden Unternehmens zu fordern