As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well as accidental images that occur through photo-like means, such as the image of Christ on ...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

Es kann sowohl strafrechtliche als auch arbeitsrechtliche Konsequenzen haben, wenn ein Arbeitnehmer einen Rechtsverstoß, insbesondere eine Straftat begeht.Die Autorin beschäftigt sich in Ihrer Dissertation mit der Frage, wie sich dieses Aufeinandertreffen von Strafrecht und Arbeitsrecht auswirkt. Konkret: Hat das Vorliegen eines Arbeitsverhältnisses Auswirkungen auf die Strafbarkeit eines Verhaltens? Wie wirkt sich die Strafbarkeit eines Verhaltens auf die Kündigungsmöglichkeit des...

It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be? Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing images from that function, it shows them to be self-referential and self-generative, and in this way capable of producing forms of engagement beyond spectatorship and subjectivity. This und...