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"Pigeon Trouble" chronicles a foreign-born, birdphobic anthropologist's venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protest by animal rights activists, the author quickly finds himself traversing into a territory much stranger than clashing worldviews an uncanny world saturated with pigeon matters, both figuratively and literally.

What transpires is a sustained meditation on self-reflexivity as the author teeters at the limit of his investigation his own fear of...

Der Autor stellt ein Konzept der Fruherkennung konvergierender Technologiebereiche vor, das die Einschatzung der Konvergenzfahigkeit von Technologien aus unterschiedlichen und sich erganzenden Industrien ermoglicht. Dieses Konzept erlaubt die Identifizierung attraktiver Innovationsfelder, um strategisch relevante Hinweise fur die im konvergierenden Feld tatigen Unternehmen zu ermitteln. Das fruhzeitige Antizipieren konvergierender Industrien ermoglicht innovierenden Unternehmen die Einflussnahme auf die in der Industriekonvergenz neu entstehende Wertschopfungskette und insbesondere die...

Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently, further advances in the philosophy of difference and renewed emphases on embodiment, materiality and life offer possibilities for attending to dimensions of gender and sexuality that were previously underdeveloped. This collection examines these possibilities insofar as they can either deepen or displace the traditional centrality of psychoanalysis in matters sexual.

The authors come from a...