Technology and Language

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7 : 1 (2026) Technological Modernization. Western and Non-Western Accounts – 9 papers plus 2

Vision of non-Western modernization are pursued in China, Russia, and elsewhere. Modernity cannot be dissociated from modern science and the Englightenment tradition, including the emergence of liberal democracies and capitalism. But can one separate technological modernization from political modernization? The challenge of ecological modernization may play a role here. In the meantime, Large Language Models register the effects of predominantly Western modernization. Systematic questions in the Chinese and Russian context are reflected alongside engineering traditions and contemporary technological challenges, and finally a hermeneutic exploration of the two most famous Club of Rome reports. Carl Mitcham, Ping Yan, Luyang Ye, guest editors. – There are also a contributed paper on Tacit Knowledge and Secrecy in the Patent Office, and a book review of Lin Cheng's proposal for RoboHumanities.

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6 : 4 (2025) Technology as Tragedy – 9 papers plus 4

Is it appropriate to speak of tragedy in respect to modern technology? One paper makes sense of this notion by considering tragic hubris in the history of human flight, starting with Daedalus and Icarus. The dialectic of technical control and tragic inevitability can be viewed from quite another angle: To the extent that technology is committed to finding solutions and repairing problems, it lacks a sense of the tragic. Instead of buying into the separation between ancient conceptions of the tragic and the technologies of the modern world, tragedy itself may appear as an existential mechanism. Other papers place the tragic mode in a larger context of culturally distinct reactions to the dominance of instrumental reason. Oliver Schlaudt and Anonymous, guest editors. – Of the four contibuted papers including one looks at language as a technology for representing olfactory experience.

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6 : 3 (2025) The Language and Poetics of Machines – 11 papers plus 2

The intelligibility of mechanical processes lends a peculiar expressive power to the machine. This collection of papers explores how machines speak to us, often in a gendered language, sometimes through the phantasm of automation, and in avantgarde moments through the integration of technology and art. Restoration practices recognize machines as part of our polytechnic heritage and a poet-philosopher traces our very own machine nature to 17th century hoists and pulleys: Spirit-writing meets Marx's analysis of machines as allies and enemies of the working class.The special issue thus exhibits a complex spectrum of power, desire, and meaning. Pan Deng and Kevin Liggieri, guest editors. -- Two submitted papers address divergent issues regarding the measurement of digital competence and the effectiveness of political speech in the Enlightenment tradition.

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6 : 2 (2025) Hermeneutic Dimensions – 13 papers plus 2

There has been increasing interest in hermeneutics of science and technology – issue 5:1 of Technology and Language testifies to this. It should heighten the interest and relevance of the hermeneutic approach if one steps back and asks how it is even possible. The editorial formulates the challenge and each of the 12 contributions seeks ways to overcome the „original antagonism“ of science or engineering and hermeneutics. The contributions include, on the one hand, considerations of science as self-expressive human practice through taxonomies or metaphors, on the other hand symbolic dimensions in the perception of technical artefacts. The philosophical tradition has treated scientific explanation and humanistic understanding as two cultures. Here is a call to speak of explanation and understanding in science as well as technology. Alfred Nordmann and Daria Bylieva, guest editors. -- Two submitted papers engage technologies in language education. See below for table of contents.

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6 : 1 (2025) #mediaopera – 7 papers plus 6 on Speculative Technologies

Iraida Yusupova defined „mediaopera“ and her PINK MOUSE from 2023 is a prime example. It serves here to raise questions regarding the origin, aesthetics, public experience and significance of the genre. In which sense is it classical „opera“ under the technical conditions of desktop editing and the internet, of musical studio recording and scored images, of the piano and the theremin? The collected texts move from the documentary to the analytic. Cheryce von Xylander, guest editor. — This issue also expands the collection of papers on Speculative Technologies from the September 2024 issue: If the dream of reason gives rise to monsters, the dream of technical reason gave birth first and foremost to the perpetuum mobile. The obsessions and compulsions that came with it stretch to electronic matchmaking, cyberfeminist theories and a model of affirmative speculation. – See below for table of contents.

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5 : 4 (2024) Translation: Theory and Technology – 8 papers plus 2

There are many languages in which technological objects are written – visual, natural, symbolic, olfactory, artefactual, etc. – and many ways in which technology is used to translate between these languages. The collected papers raise the anthropological question of the use of translation as an epistemological tool to better delineate the characteristics of the human being. Practices of translanguaging are essential to engineering as a profession. There are linguistic tools for the translation of olfactory terms, and various technical paradigms to exhibit the unity of color and sound. Tolstoy's conception of translation highlights a use of language which cannot be grasped by AI systems. And a reader-oriented approach to translation focuses on perceptions of meaning. A contributed paper considers how persuasive technologies challenge notions of human rationality. — See below for table of contents. Andrea Bréard and Marco Tamborini, guest editors.

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5 : 3 (2024) Speculative Technologies – 8 papers plus 6 essays on Franz Kafka‘s „The Penal Colony“

Around the world, museums and archives contain an impressive number of models, drawings, and descriptions of technical devices that have never existed. Contemporary science centers like the Futurium in Berlin present a range of technologies as „endless possibilities for thinking about the future.“ This first collection of papers features utopian paper architecture from post-revolutionary Russia, transformative encounters with the Futurium, the use of fuzzy objects or AI-generated images in design processes, the long history of AI visions, and the fusion of woven materials and digital coding in the tradition of textiles as texts. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka‘s death, six essays on „The Penal Colony“ highlight different aspects of Kafka’s speculative technology. — See below for table of contents, also issue 6:1 for part 2 of the collection. Anna Kotomina and Colin Milburn, guest editors.

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5 : 2 (2024) ChatGPT and the Voices of Reason, Responsibility, and Regulation – 6 papers plus 4 plus one contributed paper

When we evaluate the capacity of ChatGPT to match or surpass human capabilities, this is evidently an invitation to look at ourselves. Some of the authors offer enactivist or Derridean accounts of human communication, understanding, and thought that allow for machines to do the same. Others cite creativity and conceptual reasoning to highlight an unbridgable gap between human and machine intelligence. More generally, André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) viewed humanity through the lens of technical intelligence. His 1952 lecture on the origin of science is here for the first time published in English, accompanied by three papers about his historical and philosophical legacy. Werner Rammert finally provides a social pragmatist perspective on "Doing Things with Words and Things." — See below for table of contents. Elena Seredkina and Yongmou Liu, guest editors.

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5 : 1 (2024) Hermeneutics of Technology – 9 papers plus one contributed paper

For a long time, hermeneutics was confined to the humanities and arts, to legal and religious studies, and to the exegesis primarily of texts. In recent years, however, the hermeneutics of science and technology came into its own, along with questions of „scientific understanding“ or „hermeneutic Technology Assessment,“ and along with the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence or quantum technology which appear to elude human comprehension as did the steam engine in the 19th century. Sense-making becomes especially important in a so-called culture of prediction, robustness, and reliability – with hermeneutics a critical method for analyzing and evaluating the various ways of making sense. This extends to the conceptions of technology in particular cultures or the practice of technology assessment. — See below for table of contents. WU Guolin and LIU Dong, guest editors.

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4 : 4 (2023) Language, Mind, and Computation in the Metaphors of Cognitive Science – 7 papers plus two contributed papers

This issue is dedicated to the history of the development of computer methods in cognitive science and the role of metaphor in this process.What is the relationship between computer technology and the theory of knowledge which is expressed through metaphorical vocabularies of philosophical and scientific discourse. The authors explore questions about the nature of consciousness, the relationship between mind and body, free will, and the possibility of understanding human activity in terms of machine intelligence. With the problem of subjectivity at the intersection of technological change and semiosis it becomes questionable whether computer metaphors point to properties of the subject or to properties of the method. At this intersection, philosophical questions are becoming interdisciplinary, treated also by scientists and engineers. – See below for table of contents. Pavel Baryshnikov., guest editor.

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4 : 3 (2023) Future Writing – 9 papers plus one contributed paper on Dreyfus' Skill Model

Authors were invited to consider writing-the-future along with the future-of-writing. Juliane Henrich and Siegfried Zielinski discuss how future writing also has a past when romantic poets imagine a new language which allows us today to explore data-mining through the lens of copper-mining. Wenzel Mehnert and Stefan Gammel show how science fiction and utopian texts as well as visionary programs for emerging technologies develop strategies of questioning the present by positing an ontologically discontinuous future. Writing and the memory of the hand are becoming obsolete by way of typing and other technical proxies. Geert Lovink and others discuss aesthetic strategies in virtual public spaces. Questions of enactment and embodiment in the digital world are complemented by a presentation of the art of shibari as a form of writing. – See below for table of contents, with two more papers in issue 4:4. Dajuin Yao and Nikita Lin, guest editors.

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4 : 2 (2023) Mythologies: The Spirit of Technology in its Cultural Context – 11 papers plus two contributed papers

A new translation of Nikolai Berdyaev’s 1933 essay "Man and Machine" and two critical commentaries by Walker Trimble and Carl Mitcham set the stage. The history of electricity in Russia, narratives of resource scarcity in Germany, an intercultural comparison of COVID-tracing apps provide concrete exemplars – complemented by studies of memory in the museum and of Chinese conceptions of progress. A general account is offered in Gernot Böhme's last published essay – a critique of Yuval Noah Harari‘s juxtaposition of a natural and an imagined order. Finally, Michael Kurtov provides a comparison of techno-religious cultures, one that revolves around the inevitability of major breakdowns (Russia) and one that believes in the efficacy of minor repairs (the West). Two contributed papers concern anthropological issues in human-machine relations and the use of linguistic concepts in design. -- See below for table of contents. Coreen McGuire and Natalia Nikiforova, guest editors.

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4 : 1 (2023) Open Contributions – 10 papers

Ten contributions to ongoing discussions: A paper on Ernesto de Martino extends the analysis of Technology and Magic in issue 3:4. Two papers are the first in a series on hermeneutics of science and technology – on the authors and readers of experiments, and on “understanding” quantum mechanics. Three papers query the conflation of technology and language – on “computer languages,” on “composition” in music, language, and programming, on Wittgensteinian interpretations of technogrammar. Origami and the art of folding collapse three-dimensional complexity onto a surface, providing a technical method for mapping distance and proximity within a view of the social. Three empirical studies consider how technical gaming cultures can creatively expand and transform language, how language acquisition benefits from team-work on technical platforms.

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3 : 4 (2022) Mimesis and Composition – 11 papers

Mimetic protocols of repetition and reproduction are linked to the inexhaustible multiplicity of compositional patterns in all domains of human activity. There are two thematic poles investigated by the different contributions: science and technology on the one hand, and on the other hand enchantment and magic. These two domains, for a long time opposed, appear as different imitative ways of composing the world within a horizon of meaning. In this perspective, phenomena such as play or experiences such as sound or smell, take on a driving theoretical role. Viewed as a whole, they constitute the lemmata of a new and more comprehensive fundamental anthropology. – See below for table of contents. This collection of papers is associated with the Padova Summer School on Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Technology. Natascha Adamowsky and Fabio Grigenti, guest editors.

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3 : 3 (2022) Technologies in a Multilingual World – 8 papers plus one contributed paper

Technological creativity has been described as active adaptation to the world. What if this world is a multilingual world – an environment in which we are surrounded by a multiplicity of languages and codes, more than anyone can produce or understand but which have to be navigated nonetheless? Aside from all the „natural languages“ such as the many variants of spoken, written, or signed English and all the pidgins and local dialects, these include the language of the ticketing-machine as well as the language of powerpoint, the language of traffic signs as well as technologically enhanced communication means known as augmentative and alternative communication. – See below for table of contents. Daria Bylieva and Alfred Nordmann, editors,

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3 : 2 (2022) Instructions – 8 papers plus two contributed papers

Do technical processes unfold as instructed in that they execute a program or in that their parts perform prescribed motions? Inversely, do technologies instruct the behavior of users in that they establish a script which users need to follow if they want to reap the benefits of technology? And what is instruction in the first place? Papers consider the distinction between program and code in software engineering as well as a Wittgensteinian distinction of “instructing in” an “instructing to.” There are close observations of YouTube instructional videos, of different notations for recording theatre and dance, of Bruno Latour’s visualization practice, and of linguistic practices in regard to instruction. The collection is rounded off by an analysis of robotic grasping and the challenge to instruct the machine to employ tacit knowledge. – See below for table of contents. Jens Geisse and Marcel Siegler, guest editors.

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3 : 1 (2022) The Construction of the Robot in Language and Culture – 14 papers

“Robot” – on the history of a term that was introduced a little over 100 years ago by Czech author Karel Capek. Several papers analyze the pre-history and reception of a word that was simply translated as "worker" in Soviet Russia but became a new kind of thing, namely a "robot" in many other languages. Two interviews with Japanese robotics engineer Hiroshi Ishiguro and with German philosopher Markus Gabriel follow up on a previous encounter of theirs. Mark Coeckelbergh's 2011 paper "You, robot: on the linguistic construction of artificial others” prompted six responses and a reply to his critics by Mark Coeckelbergh. – See below for table of contents. CHENG Lin, guest editor.

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2 : 4 (2021) Technology as Language: Understanding Action in a Technical Condition – 7 plus one papers

Actions are understood in reference to reasons and causes which are formed in a social setting. The hermeneutics of action takes on a further dimension, however, when technical agency and technological activity are brought into play. Technology provides hermeneutic access and affords understanding for example of biocitizenship through genetic technology and language. Discussions include the grammar of behavior, Günther Anders' conception of promethean shame, and our understanding of language for human and machine neural networks. – See below for table of contents. Alexander Nesterov and Anna Denima, guest editors.

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2 : 3 (2021) Technology and the Media Environment of the Information Society – 10 plus one papers

Social networks and communication systems, new modes of reading and writing, the hybridization of symbolic codes stand for the disruptive effects of digital and cyber-technologies on practices of communication and expression not only on the internet but also in traditional media. Topics include 1) nudging, disinformation, and technologies for the manipulation of behavior and consciousness in digital environments, 2) the digital language of intelligent environments, 3) information technologies in social engineering environments and technocracies. – See below for table of contents. Olga Shipunova, guest editor.

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2 : 2 (2021) Forensic Examinations: Terms and Techniques – 8 papers plus four contributed papers

Forensic Examinations – not from the point of view of semiotics, the philosophy of signs and traces but by way of forensics scientists who seek to consider philosophical dimensions of “technology and language” in their empirical research. Forensics involves the reading and interpretation of traces, and many early success-stories of forensic expertise concern the identification of forgeries. In today‘s forensic science, procedures and protocols establish the terms of technical practice.- See below for table of contents. Dmitryi Mokhorov and Anna Mokhorov, guest editors.

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2 : 1 (2021) In the Beginning was the Word: The Word as Technical Artefact – 8 papers plus one contributed paper

The word is a technical object in a variety of ways, most famously perhaps as the „redeeming word“ known from fairy-tales, transformative spells, and magical thinking. Its current incarnation is the password or encryption key which opens doors to secret places and new worlds. Another prominent field of inquiry is naming as a technological activity especially where this involves formal ontologies, but also in the design process and the creation of new machine/user interfaces. – See below for table of contents. Daria Bylieva and Alfred Nordmann, editors.

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1 : 1 (2020) Introductions – 22 programmatic essays on Technology and Language

To set the stage and indicate the scope of possible topics, the first issue features not a handful of research papers but 23 short essays from philosophy, cultural studies/STS, history and theory of art, philosophy of technology, mechanical engineering and forensics research, sociolinguistics – from China, Russia, Europe, and the US. See below for table of contents.

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„Technology and Language“ is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal, published at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Scopus-listed as of January 2024, it provides philosophical, cultural, historical perspectives on the manifold relations of technology and language. This page provides a gallery of covers above. For tables of contents, and links for free download see below.

The journal promotes new ways of thinking about technology and about language. It is theoretically innovative by considering technology in terms of syntax and semantics and principles of composition, and by considering language in its dependence on techniques and technologies. These theoretical considerations will be informed by a broad range of interdisciplinary empirical investigations of the many relations of technology and language in our contemporary world – addressing the fields of history, linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary and media studies. The purpose of the journal is also to bring together an international community of researchers who explore the interfaces of technology and language.

We therefore want to draw attention to the activities and a series of online discussions hosted at the University of Vienna: „Languages of Technology: Prompts, Scripts, Narratives, and Grammars of Composition.“ The discussions are scheduled every second Wednesday of the month from 12-1:15 PM, including 15 minutes for a general exchange of information and opinions:

  • May 13 – Vassilis Galanos (University of Stirling) „Towards Digital Metaphorology: Theories, Methods, Cases, Implications, and Future Directions“
  • June 10 – Andreu Belsunces Gonçales (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya): „Worldbuilding as an analytical category: sociotechnical fictions and hype in the era of technofascism“

If you want to attend one or all sessions, please send an e-mail to Leonie Möckleonie.moeck@univie.ac.atThe zoom link will be distributed on the day before the session.

With the first issue of 2026, the journal started featuring essay-length book reviews. One can propose books for review or volunteer to contribute.

Daria Bylieva and Alfred Nordmann are the journal editors for scientific content, along with Pan Deng, Jessica Lombard, and Xue Yu, The book review editor is Andrea Gentili. The cover-designs featured on this page are by Maureen Belaski.

Table of Contents / Links for full-text downloads

  • Introduction: Technological Modernization in a Multipolar World
    • Mitcham, Carl; YAN Ping; YE Luyang.
  • Non-Western Modernization? — Technological Development in a Multipolar World
    • YAN Ping; ZHANG Hui; Nordmann, Alfred
  • Perspectives on Modernization: Nation-State, Engineering, and the Chinese Project
    • Kazakova, Aleksandra; WANG Siyu; Mitcham, Carl
  • From Conservative to Technological Modernization in Russia: Discourse and Policy
    • Shcherbak, Svitlana
  • Large Language Models as Political Actors: Cultural Bias and Epistemic Power
    • Seredkina, Elena; Seletkova, Guzel; Mikhailovsky, Alexander
  • Technological Development Models in the Context of Speech Corpora Imbalance
    • Bairamova, Khumai; Gavrilov, Anton; Kharitonova Anastassia; Nikolaev, Vladimir
  • Ecological Aesthetics and the Ecological Vector of Modernization in the Far East and the Western World
    • Vasilyeva, Marina
  • A Philosophical Interpretation of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
    • YE Luyang; WU Guolin
  • Modernity As a Conversation — Investigating Chinese Modernity
    • Borchert-Wright, Lisa
  • Performative Modes of Modeling the Future: A Comparison of Two Club of Rome Reports
    • Brenneis, Andreas.; Wiengarn, Jörn

Contributed Paper

  • Tacit Knowledge and Secrecy in the Patent Office
    • Acosta, Benedicto; Kiri, Bralind

Book Review

  • Back to «Reality»: A Review of Cheng Lin’s RoboHumanities: Imaginations, Narratives, and Ethics regarding Robots
    • YAFEI Huang

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  • The History of Technology as Experiment and Tragedy – Editorial Introduction
    • Schlaudt, O. and Anonymous
  • The Weightlessness of Flying: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Tragedies in Technology
    • Grossarth, J. and Grunwald, A.
  • Taming the Tragic — Agency and Catastrophe
    • Carvalho, T.M.
  • The Structure of the Tragic Experience of Digital Reality: Interface and Algorithm
    • Lisenkova A., Kukel V., and Ulyanova S.
  • The Hope for Resonance Through Technology — A Tragic Mistake?
    • Sever, S.
  • The Universal Machine of Tragedy: From Cultural Archetypes to Artificial Intelligence
    • Markov A. and Sosnovskaya A.
  • Beyond Progress: Technology, Ethics, and Interdependence
    • Rios, M.J.
  • The Tragedy of Instrumental Reason: From the «Tyranny of It» to the Project of «Humanizing» Technology
    • Berezovskaya, I.
  • The Mystery of Arshak, Vasak and Shapur in Faustus of Byzantium’s «History of Armenia»: An Experience of Hermeneutical Reconstruction
    • Margaryan, Ye.

Contributed Papers

  • The Sermons of the Metropolitan Filaret — Technique of Composition, Order and Logic of Linguistic Presentation
    • Kashevarov, A.N.
  • AI vs. Human: Translating Cultural Nuances in Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy
    • Al-Jabri, H. and Ali, S.
  • The Impact of Visual Elements in Pedagogical Texts — An Investigation of Economics and Engineering Students
    • Larionova V., Berestova S., Daineko L., Goncharova N., Silin V., Romanenko N.
  • Natural Language Processing and the Representation of Phenomenal Experience
    • Baryshnikov P., Velis L., and Atakuev M.

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  • The Language and Poetics of Machines – Editorial Introduction
    • Deng, P. and Liggieri, K.
  • The Gendered Language of Technology
    • Liggieri, K. and Kurz, L.
  • The Dialectics of Labour, Machinery, and Capital – An Interpretation Centered on Marx's Notes on Johann Beckmann II and Capital
    • Zhang, F., Wang, Y..
  • The Language of Machines from Baroque Automata to Digital Hybrids: The Poetics of Technological Evolution
    • Markov A.V. and Sosnovskaya, A.M.
  • Scientific Restoration of Polytechnic Heritage: The Case of the Franz Reuleaux Collection
    • Kotelnikov, P. and Kurakov, S.
  • Avantgarde Machines: On the Integration of Technology and Art
    • Lobatyuk, V.V.
  • Electronic Fuji and Artificial Intelligence Creation: How is the Study of Machine Poetics Possible?
    • Liang, S.
  • The Machines – Poem and Comment
    • Gustafsson, L., transl. by Irons, J.
  • The Machines and Beyond
    • Gammel, S..
  • Remarks on Gustafsson's 'The Machines' – Hermeneutics of Machines
    • Liu, A. W.-K..
  • Language after the Human – A Distant Echo to Lars Gustafsson's 'The Machines'
    • Vida, K..

Contributed Papers

  • Measuring Digital Competence for EFL Education in Vietnam
    • Nguyen, Q.N., Nguyen, N.P.D.
  • Material Agency, 4E Cognition, and Kant's Invisible Printing Press: Regarding Foucault's Trip to Iran
    • Perlman, D.

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  • Hermeneutic Dimensions of Science and Technology
    • Nordmann, A. and Bylieva, D.
  • Taxonomy: Reading the Biological Diversity
    • Kasavin, I.
  • Scientific Representation – Metaphor's Domain
    • Trimble, W..
  • Hermeneutic Methods and Science
    • Argamakova, A.A.
  • Hermeneutics of Science – Technical Assessments and Hidden Horizons if Meaning
    • Antonovskiy, A.
  • Hermeneutics of Science: New Metapolitics of Institutional Order
    • Kostina A.
  • Soft and Hard Hermeneutics of Science and Technologies
    • Frolov, K.
  • Hermeneutics in Research Practice
    • Maslanov, E.V.
  • A Call for Technological Understanding
    • Zhu, Y.
  • On the Symbolic Dimension of Technology: A Phenomenological Approach
    • Nguyen Duc, V.A.
  • Hermeneutics of Technology and the Anticipation of the Future in Law
    • Tukhvatulina, L.
  • Techno-Contexts and the Birth of Novelty. Questioning the AI on Hermeneutics
    • Stoliarova, O.E.

Contributed Papers

  • A Theoretical Framework for Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Autonomous Listening
    • Ou, Y,, Tasir, Z., and Kew, S.N.
  • A Digital Technology for Learning English Terminology through Glossary Compilation
    • Vasilchenko, T. and Sultanova, I.

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  • Premiering a Mediaopera. On-Site. Online.
    • von Xylander, C.
  • Opera as an Act of Love
    • Erofeev, V.
  • Everything You Wanted and Didn’t Want to Know about Mediaopera: A Cryptophonic Memoir
    • Yusupova, I..
  • From Eisenstein to Einstein: The Ultimate Guide to Mediaopera
    • Lianskaya-Lininger, E.
  • Mediaopera and Digital Opera: Musical Conceptualism and Modern Technologies
    • Bernyukevich T.
  • The Piano as Therapeutic Participant in the Drama of Pink Mouse
    • Sellors, A.
  • And the Band Plays On – Remarks for an Aesthetics of Persistence
    • Nordmann, A.
  • Recombinant Agency. Divine Comedy Meets Upcycled Comics Art in Pink Mouse, a Meta-Mediaopera
    • von Xylander, C.

Speculative Technologies – part 2

  • Speculative Technologies: Further Dreams of Technical Reason
    • Kotomina, A. and Milburn, C.
  • „About Orffyreus' gift I have been keeping, / at the same time laughing and weeping.“ The Perpetuum Mobile – A Small Phantasmagoria from the Eighteenth Century
    • Kalka, J.
  • Nikolai Chernyshevsky's Perpetuum Mobile – From Technical to Social Utopia
    • Kotomina, A.
  • The Electronic Matchmaker: Finding the Optimal Couple in the Late USSR
    • Kulagin M. and Zimirev М.
  • Philosophy of Technology from a Cyberfeminist Perspective
    • Mitrofanova, A.
  • Unstable Users: Coordinating the Configuration of Digital Objects and Projects
    • Kolozaridi P.
  • Speculative Trainers: Large Language Models and Techniques of Affirmative Speculation
    • Álvarez A.,Villalba M., and Dumit J.

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  • Translation: The Interfaces of Language and Technology
    • Bréard, A. and Tamborini, M.
  • Translanguaging in Engineering Practice
    • Kazakova, A.
  • Perceptual Experience and the Problem of Translation: Olfactory Metaphor in Technical and Literary Texts
    • Baryshnikov, P. and Velis L..
  • Translating Sounds into Visual Images, and Vice Versa
    • Sokolova, N.
  • Memory and Style: Leo Tolstoy’s philosophy, the Tao Te Ching, and Machine Translation
    • Azarov, K.
  • Experimental Translation Assessment – A Recipient-Oriented Approach
    • Sakhnevich, S.
  • The Problem of Translation of Discourse Markers (Based on the Russian and English Languages)
    • Belov V. and Belova, V.
  • Linguacultural Artefacts for Translation Training
    • Kozan, O. and Micallef, L.

Contributed Papers

  • Flipped Instruction of English as a Foreign Language: Effects on Reading Comprehension and Speaking Skills
    • Farrokh, P. and Afzali, M.
  • Ethical Reflections on Persuasive Technology
    • Cheng, S.

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  • Speculative Technologies: Here and Now, There and Then
    • Kotomina, A. and Milburn, C.
  • Social and Utopian Ideas in Russian Paper Architecture of the PostRevolution Decade
    • Ershova, N.
  • The House of Futures: Cabinet of Speculative Curiosities
    • Mirzaei, S..
  • The Past in the Light of the Future – A Case Study in Speculative Architecture
    • Sever, S.
  • Fuzzy Objects
    • Genc, M.
  • Artificial Intelligence as an Old Technology
    • Bylieva, D.
  • AI-Generated Images as a Teaching Tool in Foreign Language Acquisition
    • Vigna-Taglianti, J.
  • Textiles, Techniques, Technologies: Exploring Post-Ancestrality and Contemporary Practices
    • Rios Araya, M.J.

Franz Kafka „The Penal Colony“

  • Judging Executing Writing: The Theatre
    • Wickert, H.
  • Intellectus ex Machina
    • Nesterov, A.
  • Kafka and Technocratic Reality
    • Serkova, V. and Yakimenko, A.
  • „Be just“: Human, Machine, Punishment
    • Bernyukevich, T.
  • Kafka’s Thought Experiment: Reality Between Book and Spirit of Law
    • Krutko, D.
  • Kafka's Speculative Technologies
    • Nordmann, A.

6 more papers on Speculative Technologies in issue 6:1

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  • ChatGPT and the Voices of Reason, Responsibility, and Regulation
    • Seredkina, E. and Liu, Y.
  • Neural Networks as Embodied Observers of Complexity: An Enactive Approach
    • Arshinov, V.I. and Yanukovich, M.F.
  • Exposing Illusions – The Limits of AI by the Example of ChatGPT
    • Shalack, V.
  • Do Language Models Communicate? Communicative Intent and Reference from a Derridean Perspective
    • Perez Leon, R.
  • Dialogue as Autocommunication – On Interactions with Large Language Models
    • Kartasheva, A.
  • Lebenswelt, Digital Phenomenology, and the Modification of Human Intelligence
    • Vnutskikh, A. and Komarov, S.
  • GPT Assistants and the Challenge of Personological Functionalism
    • Alekseev, A.Y. and Alekseeva, E.A..

André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986)

  • The Origin and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (1952)
    • Leroi-Gourhan, A., translated by Brown, S., commentary by Schlanger, N.
  • Leroi-Gourhan and the Object of Technology
    • Guchet, X.
  • “Une véritable syntaxe”. Some Notes on Leroi-Gourhan and Structural Linguistics
    • Aurora, S.,
  • Between Endorsement and Disavowal: André Leroi-Gourhan's Russian Interactions
    • Schlanger, N.

Contributed Paper

  • Doing Things with Words and Things: A Social Pragmatist View on the Language–Technology Analogy
    • Rammert, W.

Table of Contents / Links for full-text downloads

  • Hermeneutics: A Broadening Scope of Inquiry
    • Wu, G. and Liu, D.
  • Communicating with Technical and Scientific Artifacts between Hermeneutics and Sociology of Science
    • Würtenberger, S.
  • A Hermeneutical Analysis of Quantum Mechanics
    • Wu, G.
  • The Affinity between Feedback Mechanism and Hermeneutical Circle
    • Mirzaei, S.
  • On Scientific Explanation and Understanding – A Hermeneutic Perspective
    • Liu, A.W.-K.
  • Description, Understanding, and Explanation：How Scientific Interpretation Gave Birth to Modern Molecular Biology
    • Wang, Z.
  • Toward Practical Hermeneutics of Fourth Paradigm AI for Science
    • Liu, T. and Mitcham, C.
  • Hermeneutic Analysis of Ancient Chinese Conceptions of Technology
    • Zeng, D. and Liu, Q..
  • Hegel on the Steam-Engine
    • Deng, P.
  • The Futures Circle – A Framework for Hermeneutic Technology Assessment
    • Mehnert, W,

Contributed Paper

  • A Philosophical Analysis of Moral Choices in the Game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
    • Mustafaev, E.

Table of Contents / Links for full-text downloads

  • Language, Mind, and Computation in the Metaphors of Cognitive Science – Editorial Introduction
    • Baryshnikov, P.
  • Body and Mind through the Lens of Mechanistic Metaphors: A History of Semantic Aberrations
    • Baryshnikov, P.
  • Anthropomorphic Metaphors as a Cognitive Model for the Conventionalization of Thought
    • Pesina, S.
  • The Problem of Measurement in Quantum Physics and the Description of Consciousness
    • Nevvazhay, I.
  • Ontology of Artificial Intelligence as a Field of Engineering
    • Kolovskaia, A. and Ilin, A.,
  • On the Phenomenological Foundation of the Information Model of Consciousness
    • Kuskova, S.
  • Subjectivity as Problem and Focal Point for Interdisciplinarity
    • Tulchinskii, G.

Contributed Papers on Future Writing

  • Binocular Dissociation in Ethnographic Narratives of VR Art
    • Tsai, R. (Cai, Y.)
  • Mixed Reality as a Technology for Immersive Stage Space Construction
    • Shen, J. and Zheng, J.

Table of Contents / Links for full-text downloads

  • Future Writing – Editorial Introduction
    • Yao, D. and Lin, N.
  • Crystallographic Resonances: Rewriting Novalis
    • Henrich, J. and Zielinski, S.
  • Emotional Visualization: The Metaverse Social in Embodied Cognitive Contexts
    • Xu, W. and Wang, Y.
  • Artistic Creation in Virtual Space.
    • Zhang, L., Wang, Y. andLiu, J.
  • On the Art of Shibari as a Form of Writing.
    • Soulrope, K.
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise again of the Seventh Letter: A Technological Story of the Russian Alphabet
    • Doroshev, A. and Polyakova, A.
  • Wording Worlds – From writing Futures to building Imaginary Worlds
    • Mehnert, W.
  • Ontolytic Writing of the Future
    • Gammel, S.
  • Optimist by Nature, Pessimist by Design: Writing Network Cultures
    • Lovink, G. and Lin, N.

Contributed Paper

  • The Social Nature of Skills: Beyond Dreyfus’ Skill Model
    • Zhang, F.

2 more papers on Future Writing in issue 4:4

Table of Contents / Links for full-text downloads

  • Mythologies: The Spirit of Technology in its Cultural Context
    • McGuire, C. and Nikiforova, N.
  • Man and Machine (1933)
    • Berdyaev, N., new translation by Trimble, W.
  • Reading Nikolai Berdyaev's „Man and Machine“
    • Trimble, W.
  • Berdyaev Returns
    • Mitcham, C.
  • Harari: The New Grand Narrative
    • Böhme, G.
  • Laozi and the Myth of Progress in China
    • Azarov, K.
  • Memory Technology in the Philosophy of Nikolai Fedorov
    • Serkova, V.
  • “Useless Fossils”, Precious Waste and Streams of Energy. Soviet Electrification and Natural Resources for the Socialist Future (1920s – 1930s)
    • Nikiforova, N.
  • No Resources, but a lot of Skill: A German Political Myth and its History
    • Soentgen,, J.
  • Tracing the Tracing Apps: A Technical Response to Covid in Cultural Comparison
    • Kesarev N. and Korochkin A..
  • Russia and Europe: The Culture of Breakages and the Culture of Repairs
    • Kurtov, M.

Contributed Papers

  • Between Technology and “Humans”: The Idee of an Anthropological Signature in Human-Machine Interactions
    • Liggieri, K.
  • On the Use of Linguistic Concepts in Design
    • Wittingslow, R.

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  • Techniques of Presence: A Way to Interpret Technoscience Starting from Ernesto De Martino’s Theory of Magic
    • Grigenti, F. and Gentili, A.
  • Hermeneutical Analysis of Scientific Experiments
    • Wu, G. and Hu, M.
  • Understanding and Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
    • Luo, D.
  • Unfolding Actor-Network Theory: What Bruno Latour’s Notion of Folded Space Could Learn From Origami
    • Pranz, S.
  • Gaming Slang: The Influence of Video Games on the Russian Language
    • Khaibullova M. and Kozina A.
  • A Socio-Technical Inquiry into the Olbanian Language
    • Serpikova P.
  • Conflation of Technology and Language: A Cognitive Artifact
    • Mirzaei, S.
  • Computer Programs and Musical Compositions as Technical Artifacts – Ontological Parallels
    • Borchert, L.M.
  • Deep Technogrammar: A Wittgensteinian Approach Towards a Philosophy of Technology
    • Pezzica, L..
  • Teaching Students to Communicate in a Foreign Language through Teamwork on Virtual Communication Platforms
    • Dashkina A.I. and Rubtsova, A..

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  • Mimesis and Composition: Introduction
    • Adamowsky, N. and Grigenti, F.
  • Productive Indeterminacy: On the Relationship between Play and Science
    • Adamowsky, N.
  • On the Mythical Atmosphere of the Digital World
    • Milani, B.
  • The Pledge, the Turn, the Prestige: The Border Between Magic and Technology as Practices
    • Monaro, F.
  • Enchanting Narratives: A Historical Ethnography of Contemplative Science
    • Smolka, M.
  • Father Christmas: Magic and Technology
    • Bylieva, D. and Zamorev, A.
  • Language in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    • Thomas, S.
  • Magic Materialism: From Atmospheric Technologies to Architectures of Affect
    • Oznobikhina, I.
  • The Composition of Saint Petersburg Scents: Smellwalks for Urban Exploration
    • Redko, E. and Bogatyrenko, M.
  • Philosophy of Biorobotics: Translating and Composing Bio-hybrid Forms
    • Tamborini, M.
  • Composing and Combining: Opposing Constructive Principles?
    • Schwarz, A.
  • Knowing and Controlling the World through Gardenworks and Biorobots: Discussion of Tamborini and Schwarz
    • Nordmann, A., Schwarz, A., and Tamborini, M.

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  • Technologies in a Multilingual World: Editorial Introduction
    • Believa, D. and Nordmann, A..
  • Two Perspectives on the Multilingual Condition – Linguistics meets Philosophy of Technology
    • Hufeisen, B., Nordmann, A., and Liu, A.W.-K.
  • The Cat’s Meow – Feline Translations
    • Skripchenko R. and Burlakov I.
  • Everyday Problems of International Students in the Russian Language Environment
    • Lobatyuk, V. and Nam, T.
  • Industrial Music, Noise, and the Sound of Machines
    • Trofimov V., Levchuk M. and Sergeeva K.
  • On the Non-Universality in Mathematical Language
    • Krasnoshchekov V. and Semenova N..
  • The Stages of Developing a Discourse-Oriented Virtual Learning Environment Model
    • Balyshev P.
  • Convergence of Foreign Language and Engineering Education: Opportunities for Development
    • Krylov E. and Vasileva P.

Contributed Paper

  • Consensus without Consent
    • Tan, A..

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  • Instructing Technology, Technological Instruction: Editorial Introduction
    • Geisse J. and Siegler M..
  • Instructing to and Instructing in: Two Paradigms of Instruction
    • Radjenovic D.
  • Instructing Tacit Knowledge: Epistemologies of Sensory-Based Robotic Systems
    • Wuzella, R..
  • Do it Yourself at YouTube
    • Grom Y. and Bytsan S.
  • Explicit and Implicit Components of Social and Technical Instructions
    • Belyaeva, I.G..
  • Program and Code
    • Hähnle, R..
  • Staging Notations
    • Vyrypanov, D.
  • Visualizing the Composition: A Method for Mapping Inscription and Instruction
    • Zhu, Y..

Contributed Papers

  • The Grammars of AI: Towards a Structuralist and Transcendental Hermeneutics of Digital Technologies
    • Coeckelbergh, M..
  • Global-local Cultural Interactions in a Hyperconnected World
    • Saltanovich I.

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  • The Construction of the Robot in Language and Culture, “Intercultural Robotics” and the “Third Robot Culture”
    • Cheng L.
  • The Intellectual Turn and Cultural Transfer of “Humanoid Automata” from the Ancient World to the Enlightenment Era
    • Wu S.
  • Robot vs Worker
    • Romanenko T.Shcherbinina P.
  • The Body, the Soul, the Robot: 21st-Century Monism
    • Liggieri K.Tamborini M.
  • The Blurring of the Boundaries between Humans and Robots is a Good Thing and a New Species would be Born: An Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
    • Jiang H.Cheng L.Ishiguro H.
  • Diverse Cultures, Universal Capacity: An Interview with Markus Gabriel
    • Li Y.Gabriel M.
  • You, Robot: on the Linguistic Construction of Artificial Others
    • Coeckelbergh M.
  • The Quasi-Other as a Sobject
    • Ullmann L.
  • Quipping Equipment: Apropos of Robots and Kantian Chatbots
    • Xylander C. von
  • On Talkwithability. Communicative Affordances and Robotic Deception
    • Pezzica L.
  • Language of AI
    • Bylieva D.
  • Language and Robots: from Relations to Processes of Relations
    • Hasse C.
  • Affirming and Denying the Hybrid Character of Robots: Literary Investigations
    • Li Y.
  • Response: Language and robots
    • Coeckelbergh M.

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  • Technology and Understanding
    • Nesterov A.; Demina A. I.
  • The Grammar of Behavior as a Theoretical Notion
    • Serikov A. E.
  • Promethean Shame as the Hidden Instrumentum Redemptionis Humanae
    • Ursitti F.
  • Biotechnological Agencies in our Information Society: The Emergence of Biocitizenship and Genetic Language
    • Lombard J.
  • Virtual Communication Technologies in Modern Drama for Teenagers
    • Tyutelova; L.Sergeeva; E.Sundukova K.
  • The Concept, Types and Rules of the Use of Technical Means in Criminal Proceedings
    • Ivanov V;. V.Tsoi V. A.
  • Teaching English as a Language for Mechanical Engineering
    • Krylov E.; Khalyapina L.; Nordmann A.
  • Technology and Language in Tattoos
    • Ozerova D.; Serikov A.
  • Politics of Usernames
    • Hess M.

Contributed Paper

  • Dialog, Communication, Cooperation, and Collaboration: Facets of Human-Computer Interaction
    • Belyaeva I. G.

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  • Technologies and Media Environment of Information Society
    • Olga Shipunova
  • Future Marketing as Technology for Manipulating Symbolic Consumption
    • Pletnev A.V.
  • Technology for Professional Image Construction of a Medical Worker: COVID-19 Media Discourse
    • Yefanov A.; Banshchikova V.
  • Political Media Discourse in China as a Subject of Applied Analysis
    • Lobanova T; .Xu J.
  • Non-Verbal Marketing Research Techniques in Education
    • Ababkova M.Yu.
  • Messengers and Chats – Technologies of Learning
    • Bylieva D.; Laurent Moccozet
  • Enhancing the Assimilation of Foreign Language Vocabulary when Working with Students of the Digital Generation
    • Zorina E.V.; Chirkova E.I.; Chernovets E.G.
  • Technology for the Manipulation of Behavior
    • Ryabukhina V.
  • Emojis as a Language of their Own
    • Agranovskiy D.; Avilova A.
  • Technologies of Strategic Communications in the Practice of Public Administration
    • Shilova N.N.; Bragina E.N.

Contributed Paper

  • Geofuturology of Technology
    • Isaev B.A.; Ignatyeva I.F.

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  • Sign Systems and Technologies in Forensic Science
    • Mokhorov D.; Mokhorov A.
  • Forensic Studies of Trace Evidence Altered by Fire
    • Latyshov I.V.; Pakhomov M.E.; Anosova N.E.
  • Laser Method of Micro-Composite Materials Synthesis for New Sensor Platforms of an “Electronic Tongue”
    • Kochemirovskaya S.V.; Kochemirovsky V.A.
  • The Language of Technical Examinations and Forensic Science
    • Isaev A.V.
  • The Automated Expert Workplace as a Tool for Technological Support for Forensic Expert Activities
    • Latyshov I.V.
  • Portrait Expertise
    • Khairusov D.S.
  • Digital Photography of Crime Scenes in the Production in Forensic Examinations
    • Telyatitskaya T.V.
  • Modeling Methods in Forensic Engineering and Technical Expertise: Artificial Languages of Modeling in Forensics
    • Menshikov P.V.

Contributed Papers

  • Natural Language as a Technological Tool
    • Aurora S.
  • First and Last Things: The Signatures of Visualization-Artists
    • Nordmann A.
  • Psychological Features of the Regulative Mechanisms Emerging in Digital Space
    • Pokrovskaia N.N.; Tyulin A.T.
  • Plurilingual School and University Curricula
    • Schlabach J.; Hufeisen B.

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  • In the Beginning was the Word
    • Nordmann A.; Bylieva D.
  • Calculating with Words: Perspectives from Philosophy of Media, Philosophy of Science, Linguistics and Cultural History
    • Ramming U.
  • Decaying Words: The Metaphor of Evolution in Language Becomes Literal in a Canadian Forest
    • Wilson J.
  • Claiming Infinity: Tokens and spells in the foundations of the Moscow Mathematical School
    • Trimble W.
  • Infinity: Divine Paradigm
    • Christiansen Ch.
  • Utopian Grammars of Human-Machine Interaction
    • Coenen C.; Kazakova A.
  • A word at the limit
    • Kazarina T.
  • Non-linguistic systems as a way to make a password secure but memorable
    • Vorotnikova V.; Karlin S.
  • The Technical Transformation of the Literary Epigraph
    • Belyaeva I. G.

Contributed Paper

  • ‘A Few Words of Welcome’
    • Froy T.

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  • Scientific Language – A Comparative Analysis of English, German and Russian
    • Altenbach H.
  • Multilingualism in the Age of Technology
    • Aronin L.
  • Connecting the World and the Word: The Hard and the Soft in Michel Serres’s philosophy
    • Bensaude-Vincent B.
  • The Language of Human-Machine Communication
    • Bylieva D.
  • When Machines Talk: A Brief Analysis of Some Relations between Technology and Language
    • Coeckelbergh M.
  • Language of Art as Language of Utopia
    • Ershova N.
  • Language and Hermeneutics
    • Ihde D.
  • Back to the Future with Writing and Speech
    • Ingold T.
  • Cybernetics for the Blind: The Reading Machine “Luch” (The Ray)
    • Kotomina А.
  • The Political Power of the Algorithm
    • Kramsch С.
  • Engineering Education – Сonvergence of Technology and Language
    • Krylov E.
  • On the Question concerning Animatechnics
    • Kuchinov E.
  • The Uprising of the Chinese Language in a Technological Age
    • Liu Y.
  • Philology and Technology: Notes
    • Mitcham C.
  • Language of criminalistic research as a basis for studying criminal legal phenomena
    • Mokhorov D.; Fedyukovsky А.
  • Technology as Semiosis
    • Nesterov A.
  • Non-Technological Narratives about Technology in Russian Science Fiction
    • Nikiforova N.
  • The Grammar of Things
    • Nordmann A.
  • Technology as a new Language of Communication between the Human Being and the World
    • Pavlenko A.
  • Good Engineering Design – Design Evolution by Languages
    • Pelz P.F.
  • The Techniques of the Arts
    • Wickert H.
  • Quantum Hermeneutics and Its Essential Questions
    • Wu G.
  • A(l)gora: The Mindscape
    • Xylander C. von