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Astroculture is a testament to the literary imagination and theoretical innovation of the late Sonja A.J. Neef, who devised the term as an expanding horizon of collaborative research into the powerful gravitational force exerted on culture by astronomical phenomena and imagery. It is also the name of a conference on the topic inspired by Neef and held at the Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata at the University of Cologne in November, 2011. Indeed, Astroculture is a perfect instance of a morphome, the overall target of the Cologne College's ongoing symposia: a persistent trope or topos of cultural fascination and transcription appearing across a gamut of civilizations and historical periods. Commentary in this volume ranges from Claudius Ptolemy's mapping of the universe and the emergence of a pluralistic cosmology in seventeenth-century Europe to the spread of planetariums, the Whole Earth Catalog, and the contemporary artwork of Ingo Günter. With interventions by David Aubin, Lucía Ayala, Monika Bernold, Dietrich Boschung, Bruce Clarke, Gerd Graßhof, Hans-Christian von Hermann, Martina Leeker, Patricia Pisters, and Henry Sussman.
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Cosmology and cosmopolitanism describe two different types of knowledge or belief, one deriving from natural sciences, the other from the Humanities. Both discourses deal with concepts of cosmos, universe, globe, world, or planet. This collection of essays explores the dynamic processes by which, on the one hand, cosmological ideas and, on the other hand, cultural, political, philosophical, or religious ideas have been affecting one another.
The book is particularly sensitive to the role of the media in this exchange. It investigates how shifts in the history of media interact with epistemological and ideological changes from the first telescopic observation of the solar system by Galileo in 1609, until our present age of digital astral photography, artificial satellites, and space travel, each time asking how new world-views force us to reinvent ourselves as (post-)modern, (post-)enlightened, and (post-)global subjects
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Sonja Neef, geb. 1968 in Koersel/B, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlerin, Literaturstudium in Köln und Utrecht/NL, war mehrere Jahre an der Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis tätig. Ihre Dissertation (Amsterdam 2000) wurde mit dem ASCA-grant, ihr Forschungsprojekt über Handschrift mit dem veni-Preis der niederländischen Forschungsgemeinschaft honoriert. Seit 2003 arbeitet sie als Juniorprofessorin für Europäische Medienkultur an der Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
