Papers by Thomas Schmidt-Lux
Historical Social Research, 2022
»Unendliche Expansion, unbegrenzter Zugang, allumfassender Komfort. Eine Analyse der Auswirkungen... more »Unendliche Expansion, unbegrenzter Zugang, allumfassender Komfort. Eine Analyse der Auswirkungen von Digitalisierung in Bibliotheken nach 1995«. The objective of the paper is an analysis of the temporal patterns of digitalization. Looking at a specific field, the built environment, and a specific architectural typology, libraries, we ask what has changed in library architecture after 1995 and what types of patterns of progression are evident in this context. Up close, digitalization exhibits more nuanced changes than the catch-all-term suggests. We propose three phases of digitalization: (1) a phase revolving around infinite expansion (1995-2005), (2) a phase revolving around unlimited access (2005-2015), and (3) a phase concerned with encompassing comfort (after 2015). With regard to these refiguration processes, we identify both trajectories, turning points and cyclical patterns. Our study highlights the importance of empirical studies and time-sensitive social research in the context of studies on the digital age.
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Article, 2021
Although digitalization processes are frequently described as being immaterial and 'virtual', the... more Although digitalization processes are frequently described as being immaterial and 'virtual', the importance of material space and architecture in the Silicon Valley is evident. Just recently new headquarters of Apple , Facebook and Google have opened. Based on walk-throughs, interviews, documents and photography, the essay analyses their architecture and spatial organization. The analysis reveals that there is no single, uniform form of contemporary corporate architecture in Silicon Valley, just as there is no coherent picture of the digital. Google builds accessible and permeable, Facebook creates a built community, while Apple builds its very own world, similarly hiding and exposing it. Thus, the analysis of architecture reveals different conceptions of an often monolithically described field.
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Fans, 2010
Das Themenfeld Fans ist bislang selten systematisch mit soziologischer Theorie in Verbindung gebr... more Das Themenfeld Fans ist bislang selten systematisch mit soziologischer Theorie in Verbindung gebracht worden. Von wenigen Ausnahmen abgese-hen, brachten Fanforschungen weder eigene Theorien hervor noch wurden soziologische Theorien auf das Phänomen Fantum ...
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Culture and Religion, 2016
We examine how the authors who represent ‘New Atheism’ refer to science, and we compare these re... more We examine how the authors who represent ‘New Atheism’ refer to science, and we compare these references to how science was viewed in earlier Continental forms of atheism, namely in Ernst Haeckel’s writings and his Monist movement. We analyse and compare these references in five key areas: the general reference to science, the use of science as an argument against religion, reference to a scientific mode of knowledge, scientific theories about religion and science as a means of
giving meaning to life. While there are many similarities that clearly position New Atheism within the history of scientism, we find that the form of scientism the New Atheists employ owes at least as much to the current state of the religious field
as to their scientistic predecessors.
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Social Compass, 2008
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Peperkamp, Esther; Rajtar, Malgorzata (Hg.): Religious and the Secular in Eastern Germany, Brill 2011
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In: Geyer, Michael; Hölscher, Lucian (Hg.): Die Gegenwart Gottes in der modernen Gesellschaft. Göttingen 2006, 404-430.
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giving meaning to life. While there are many similarities that clearly position New Atheism within the history of scientism, we find that the form of scientism the New Atheists employ owes at least as much to the current state of the religious field
as to their scientistic predecessors.
giving meaning to life. While there are many similarities that clearly position New Atheism within the history of scientism, we find that the form of scientism the New Atheists employ owes at least as much to the current state of the religious field
as to their scientistic predecessors.
En portant un regard sur une sélection des écrits weimariens de Kracauer parus dans la Frankfurter Zeitung entre 1920 et 1930, nous serons attentifs à la question de l’écriture sociologique et à la forme qu’il soulève, le feuilleton. Nous lirons les textes de Kracauer, ses feuilletons en premier lieu, mais aussi un roman, une biographie et un livre sur l’histoire. Lorsque nous nous pencherons sur ces autres genres, c’est leur aspect sociologique que nous étudierons : l’observation de la surface, de la matérialité des choses, de la culture de masse.
Nous interromprons nos lectures par deux « parenthèses théoriques », moments pour situer les textes lus dans leurs contextes intellectuel et historique. Attentifs à la sociologie du temps, à Simmel et à Weber notamment, nous délinéerons les contours d’une sociologie rigoureuse, mais aussi créative, élégante, divertissante et ironique.
L’échange entre les participants du séminaire se fera par le biais de lettre-courriels à un collègue de Leipzig à partir de la mi-octobre. Nous organiserons à deux reprises pendant le semestre des séminaires en vidéo. Au terme du semestre, au printemps 2016, un groupe d’étudiants de Montréal participera à un atelier commun qui aura lieu à Leipzig avec des participants allemands du séminaire grâce à un financent de l’Office allemand d’échanges universitaires et de la Direction des relations internationale de l’UdeM.