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Vortragender: Emanuele Lugli

The Fabrication of Borders: A New History of Fashion, 1347-1947

Research Seminar
The history of fashion is often framed as a sequence of styles, each born from individual creativity. Fashion, in this view, is a product of choice and psychology—perhaps shaped by class dynamics—but ultimately driven by a will powerful enough to influence a community and, at times, expand to shape entire nations and beyond. But what if we flipped this perspective? [mehr]

Measure as Erasure

Research Seminar
The construction of the modern world largely rested on faith in measuring. The control of natural resources, the military revolution, the mapping of space, and the representation of the real: all those achievements were predicated on the belief that measuring was reliable, that it could be done, and that its results were immutable. [mehr]
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