Culture Club

Es ist der Anblick einer Fotografie, der den Schriftsteller James Baldwin 1957 zurück in seine Heimat führt. Weiße, wütende Gesichter, ein Mob von Frauen und Männern, Jungen und Alten, der eine fünfzehnjährige Afroamerikanerin umzingelt. Die Professorentochter Dorothy Counts ist die erste Schwarze, die nach Aufhebung der Segregation an Schulen in den Südstaaten den Weg in die heiligen Hallen des Lernens antreten darf. Sie wird ausgelacht, bespuckt, mit Steinen beworfen.

Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political outcropping of modern Detroit techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy. They have exerted their portion of Detroit techno's cultural influence towards promoting political activism. Begun in the late 1980s by Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and "Mad" Mike Banks, UR related the aesthetics of early Detroit Techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances which followed on from Reagan-era inner-city economic recession, producing uncompromising music geared toward promoting awareness and facilitating political change. In contrast to techno that preceded UR, UR tried to appeal to lower class African Americans in Detroit. UR’s songs created a sense of self-exploration, experimentation and the ability to change yourself and circumstances.

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author. Born in Britain, and mostly educated there, he spent his career in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe."[1] He became widely known for writing best-selling case histories about both his patients' and his own disorders and unusual experiences, with some of his books adapted for plays by major playwrights, feature films, animated short films, opera, dance, fine art, and musical works in the classical genre.

Awakenings is the remarkable account of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen in a decades-long sleep, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, “awakening” effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of these individuals, the stories of their lives, and the extraordinary transformations they underwent with treatment.

...wissenschaftliche Forschung steht also in einem Spannungsfeld aus kritisch-rationalem Dissens und Konsensmechanismen – ein Spannungsfeld, das übrigens auch für erkenntnisgerichtete gesellschaftliche Diskurse allgemeiner bezeichnend ist. Wie in diesem Widerstreit zwischen Dissens und Konsens objektive Erkenntnis möglich ist, ist eine zentrale Frage der Wissenschaftsphilosophie – eine Frage, die insofern hochaktuell ist, als Verbreiter von Fake News und pseudowissenschaftlichen Ideologien genau dieses Spannungsfeld ausnutzen, um nicht fundierte Meinungen als legitime rationale Kritik an wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis zu verkaufen.... https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/erde-klima/...nalyse-16060198.html

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming is a 2010 non-fiction book by American historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. It identifies parallels between the global warming controversy and earlier controversies over tobacco smoking, acid rain, DDT, and the hole in the ozone layer. Oreskes and Conway write that in each case "keeping the controversy alive" by spreading doubt and confusion after a scientific consensus had been reached was the basic strategy of those opposing action.[1] In particular, they say that Fred Seitz, Fred Singer, and a few other contrarian scientists joined forces with conservative think tanks and private corporations to challenge the scientific consensus on many contemporary issues

Asmus Tietchens (born 3 February 1947, Hamburg), who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music. Tietchens became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a child, and began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instruments, synthesizers and tape loops.