Dirk Van Laak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Van Laak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Laak |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LAAK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Leipzig , Historisches Seminar, Geschichte des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts , Leipzig , 04105 , Germany . |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epilogue
This epilogue underscores the insights to be gained from analyzing music as a “globalized infrastructure,” revealing its dual role in enabling cultural connections and reinforcing societal hierarchies. Relating music to socio-technological systems, it highlights how material and immaterial infrastructures facilitate the production, dissemination, and collective experience of music across global contexts. This perspective deepens our understanding…
Jens Elberfeld / Kristoffer Klammer / Sandra Maß u. a. (Hrsg.), Erträumte Geschichte(n). Zur Historizität von Träumen, Visionen und Utopien. Frankfurt am Main, Campus 2022
Martin Tielke (Hrsg.), Carl Schmitt – Roman Schnur. Briefwechsel 1951 bis 1983. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 2023
Pia Volk, Deutschlands verschwundene Orte. Ein Atlas. München, Beck 2023
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure
Thomas Rohkrämer, Martin Heidegger. Eine politische Biographie. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020
Jugendbewegt geprägt
Detours around Africa
The aim of this chapter is to trace the transformation of the notion of ‘Eurafrica’ from the time of European imperialism up to the era of decolonization and the start of European integration. The idea that Europe and Africa should naturally be linked via expanding infrastructures was an important part of many imperial and infrastructural visions in the nineteenth century. The end of European colonial rule in Africa since the 1950s only appeared …
Planung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Vorgriffs auf die Zukunft
During the era of modernity, »planning« became a catchword that indicated the practical necessity and technocratic ambition of planning. The »plan« and »to plan« attracted attention in many spheres of practical and academic experience. The article suggests an international comparison of public planning in the 20th century, when planning was vital for political, technical and spatial arrangements and can be identified as a pivotal category of soci…
From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism
Looking backward from the end of our century, the course of European history can now finally be qualified. The question of historical continuities, changes, and chances has never been put forward more fervently than in the German case. Assessments of German history were obsessed with stating peculiarities or Sonderwege, to use one of the most prominent terms. From a distance, however, it becomes obvious that political and social developments in G…
Gespräche in der Sicherheit des Schweigens
Mit Schmitt ragte der Träger eines Traditionsbestandes politischen Denkens in die Zeit der frühen Bundesrepublik hinein, von dem sich abzugrenzen in den 50er Jahren Übereinkunft zu herrschen schien. Aber schon die Art, wie er seine eigene kompromittierende Vergangenheit als intellektueller Kollaborateur des ,Dritten Reiches' verarbeitete, führte Schmitt erneut Gesprächspartner zu. Diese Freundeskreise ergänzten sich nach und nach durch immer weit…
Deutschland danach
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Posthistoire
History, be it Fukuyama's liberal democracy or Baudrillard's hyperreality, according to a number of pundits, has reached of line. Yet these heated debates are themselves profoundly ahistorical, for conception of posthistoire, the of history, has been a recurrent theme since late 19th century. Lutz Niethammer, Germany's leading radical historian, here uncovers this intellectual history of disillusion and resignation. Tracing idea of history's back…
Planung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Vorgriffs auf die Zukunft
During the era of modernity, »planning« became a catchword that indicated the practical necessity and technocratic ambition of planning. The »plan« and »to plan« attracted attention in many spheres of practical and academic experience. The article suggests an international comparison of public planning in the 20th century, when planning was vital for political, technical and spatial arrangements and can be identified as a pivotal category of soci…
Posthistoire
History, be it Fukuyama's liberal democracy or Baudrillard's hyperreality, according to a number of pundits, has reached of line. Yet these heated debates are themselves profoundly ahistorical, for conception of posthistoire, the of history, has been a recurrent theme since late 19th century. Lutz Niethammer, Germany's leading radical historian, here uncovers this intellectual history of disillusion and resignation. Tracing idea of history's back…
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Deutschland danach
Gespräche in der Sicherheit des Schweigens
Mit Schmitt ragte der Träger eines Traditionsbestandes politischen Denkens in die Zeit der frühen Bundesrepublik hinein, von dem sich abzugrenzen in den 50er Jahren Übereinkunft zu herrschen schien. Aber schon die Art, wie er seine eigene kompromittierende Vergangenheit als intellektueller Kollaborateur des ,Dritten Reiches' verarbeitete, führte Schmitt erneut Gesprächspartner zu. Diese Freundeskreise ergänzten sich nach und nach durch immer weit…
From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism
Looking backward from the end of our century, the course of European history can now finally be qualified. The question of historical continuities, changes, and chances has never been put forward more fervently than in the German case. Assessments of German history were obsessed with stating peculiarities or Sonderwege, to use one of the most prominent terms. From a distance, however, it becomes obvious that political and social developments in G…
Planung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Vorgriffs auf die Zukunft
During the era of modernity, »planning« became a catchword that indicated the practical necessity and technocratic ambition of planning. The »plan« and »to plan« attracted attention in many spheres of practical and academic experience. The article suggests an international comparison of public planning in the 20th century, when planning was vital for political, technical and spatial arrangements and can be identified as a pivotal category of soci…
Detours around Africa
The aim of this chapter is to trace the transformation of the notion of ‘Eurafrica’ from the time of European imperialism up to the era of decolonization and the start of European integration. The idea that Europe and Africa should naturally be linked via expanding infrastructures was an important part of many imperial and infrastructural visions in the nineteenth century. The end of European colonial rule in Africa since the 1950s only appeared …
Jugendbewegt geprägt
Thomas Rohkrämer, Martin Heidegger. Eine politische Biographie. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure
Jens Elberfeld / Kristoffer Klammer / Sandra Maß u. a. (Hrsg.), Erträumte Geschichte(n). Zur Historizität von Träumen, Visionen und Utopien. Frankfurt am Main, Campus 2022
Martin Tielke (Hrsg.), Carl Schmitt – Roman Schnur. Briefwechsel 1951 bis 1983. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 2023
Pia Volk, Deutschlands verschwundene Orte. Ein Atlas. München, Beck 2023
Epilogue
This epilogue underscores the insights to be gained from analyzing music as a “globalized infrastructure,” revealing its dual role in enabling cultural connections and reinforcing societal hierarchies. Relating music to socio-technological systems, it highlights how material and immaterial infrastructures facilitate the production, dissemination, and collective experience of music across global contexts. This perspective deepens our understanding…
Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (2 works)