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When cops burst through your door : warrantless home raids -- L'enfant c'est moi-child protective services and state-sponsored kidnapping -- Your money or your freedom : when policing pays for itself -- Free speech and the individual American protestors, the press, and an embattled First Amendment -- State power run amok -- Cops, courts, and jails.

Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. This book is about our American food system gone terribly wrong--and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources. Investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. He follows three families and communities whose lives have been utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms, turning them into unlikely activists.--From publisher description

Scholarship in the history and sociology of technology has convincingly demonstrated that technological development is not inevitable, pre-destined or linear. In this paper I show how the creators of popular films including science consultants construct cinematic representations of technological possibilities as a means by which to overcome these obstacles and stimulate a desire in audiences to see potential technologies become realities. This paper focuses specifically on the production process in order to show how entertainment producers construct cinematic scenarios with an eye towards generating real-world funding opportunities and the ability to construct real-life prototypes. I introduce the term 'diegetic prototypes' to account for the ways in which cinematic depictions of future technologies demonstrate to large public audiences a technology's need, viability and benevolence. Entertainment producers create diegetic prototypes by influencing dialogue, plot rationalizations, character interactions and narrative structure. These technologies only exist in the fictional world — what film scholars call the diegesis — but they exist as fully functioning objects in that world. The essay builds upon previous work on the notion of prototypes as 'performative artefacts'. The performative aspects of prototypes are especially evident in diegetic prototypes because a film's narrative structure contextualizes technologies within the social sphere. Technological objects in cinema are at once both completely artificial — all aspects of their depiction are controlled in production — and normalized within the text as practical objects that function properly and which people actually use as everyday objects.

Der Aufsatz thematisiert einen Zeitraum (1780–1870), in dem sich im Ostseeraum politisch und wirtschaftlich viel verändert. Für alle, die an den Küsten der Ostsee lebten, war es das Meer, das Leben und Lebensunterhalt regelte, Bräuche und Anschauungen beeinflusste und Denken und Handeln bestimmte. In vielerlei Hinsicht bildeten die Küstenbewohner charakteristische Gemeinschaften, die nur geringen Bezug zu territorialen Grenzen und wenige Verbindungen zum Land hinter den Handelswegen hatten. Der immer schnellere Puls des Wirtschaftslebens, der Einfluss der technischen Errungenschaften und vor allem die Entstehung mächtiger zentralistisch agierender Staaten verursachten starke und langanhaltende Veränderungen. Der Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluss nationaler Normen und Werte auf die maritimen Gemeinschaften im Ostseeraum und richtet dabei besonderes Augenmerk darauf, inwiefern das Meer, die Küste und die Küstenbewohner neu definiert wurden, um in das nationale Selbstbild zu passen. Im Gegensatz zu anderen derartigen Gemeinschaften (wie beispielsweise Bergvölkern) lebten die die Küste bewohnenden in Gebieten, die in wirtschaftlicher, strategischer und militärischer Hinsicht immer wichtiger wurden. Diese mussten folglich in das nationale Ganze integriert werden. Weit in die Vergangenheit reichende internationale Verbindungen und stark ausgeprägte Traditionen in der Anpassung an veränderte Umstände sorgten dafür, dass die Küstengebiete selbst engagiert an diesem Veränderungsprozess teilnehmen konnten.

When scientists act as consultants during the production of a fictional film, it becomes an act of communication that plays a role in the process of science. Fictional film provides a space for scientists to visually model their conceptions of nature. Film impacts scientific practice as science consultants utilize film as a virtual witnessing technology to gather allies among specialists and non-specialists. Film not only has the ability to act as a virtual witnessing technology, but also forces consensus on the public version of scientific debates by presenting a single vision of nature in a perceptually realistic structure. This paper shows films to be successful communicative devices within the scientific community by showing that, and how, other scientists respond to the depictions in the films. It also demonstrates that science consultants use fictional films as promotional devices for their research fields.