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Yana Milev is a Berlin-based artist, cultural philosopher/anthropologist, curator and publisher. She studied stage design, visual arts and cultural theory in Dresden, martial arts in Kyōto and Berlin, cultural philosophy and anthropology of art in Vienna and Karlsruhe. After a successful career as an artist (e.g. Documenta 10 – dX in 1997), in 2003 she moved to the scientific sphere. In 2008, she received her PhD on a subject of political philosophy. Since 2009 she has been developing the research field «design anthropology» within her habilitation treatise (venia legendi) at the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Sociology. Besides her academic engagements as an author, theorist, researcher and lecturer, she works as a curator, project manager and publisher. Since 1987, Yana Milev has realized dozens of worldwide projects in the fields of art, curating, science, publishing, education, research and cultural production.

• Contents: Yana Milev: Design Anthropology: Outline of an Expanded Concept of Design in the Field of the (Empirical) Cultural Sciences – Tom Holert: Distributed Agency, Design’s Potentiality – Ulf Wuggenig: The Return of the Plague of Ornaments – Jean Baudrillard: The Power of the Global: Requiem for the Twin Towers – Evert Ypma: Design as Global Lingo – Elisabeth Blum: Dialectics without Reconciliation. How Urbanism lags behind Urban Reality – Elisabeth Blum: The Ethnographer’s Glance – Birgit Richard: The World Trade Center (WTC) Image Complex: On the Culture of the Shifting Image – Aleida Assmann: Problems in the Explication of Occidental Sign Conceptions – Elize Bisanz: The Triadic Mind: Peirce’s Semiotic Concept of Designing the World through Signs – Yana Milev/R+: RAMMSTEIN_Semiology – Daniel Hermsdorf: The 1,000 Lies of Cinema: On Baudrillard’s Term «Simulation» and its Relevance for Film Theory – Saroj Giri: Sights and Sounds at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 – Marc Bijl: Burning Signs – Mark Dery: Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs – Princess Hijab: Hijabism = Hijabizing Advertisements – Angelique Chrisafis: Burka & Gabanna: The Adbusting of Princess Hijab – Henk Oosterling: The Myth of Modernity Interrogated: Oedipus and the Dogon – James Clifford: Taking Identity Politics Seriously: «The Contradictory, Stony Ground ...» – Roger Ballen: Boarding House – Yana Milev: I FINK U FREEKY: On Roger Ballen’s Search for Traces – Molly Nesbit: Ready-Made Originals: The Duchamp Model – Christof Zotter/Janina Karolewski: Ritual Design: A Popular Term and its Scientific Applications – Elisabeth von Samsonow: Ariadne - a Ritual of Everyman’s Life – Elisabeth von Samsonow: Ariadne, the Sacred Patron of Ritual Design – Fareed Armaly: «New Muse»: Museum Exhibition Design as Hubris – Alexander Kluge: Contemporary Ballads: The Narrative Power of the Catastrophe as seen through its Images – Bill Viola: The Greeting – Michael Tomasello: Gestural Conventions – Thomas Metscher: The Logos as Designing Power of Cultures – AOBBME: Ambulance of the In/Human – Rudolf Maresch: Virtus: The Medium of Immersion – Tim Lenoir: Contemplating Singularity – Bureau d’Etudes: Mapping the In/Human – Brian Holmes: Future Map – Friedrich von Borries: Climate Capsules or: The Dymaxion of the 21st Century – Mikael Mikael: Show You Are Not Afraid – Boris Groys: Politics of Self-Design – Boyan Manchev: Performative Design of Life: Perverse Capitalism vs. «Aisthetic» Materialism – Kai Löffelbein: Kids of Sodom: The Dark Side of IT Design Industries – Branka Ćurčić: Ideology of Design: From a Socialist Perspective on Design to it’s Neo-Liberal-Transformation in Ex-Yogoslavia – Hal Foster: Design and Crime: A Sketch for a Political Economy of Design – Jürgen Mayer H.: HIDE-OUT: Camouflages in Architecture and Public Spaces – Chantal Mouffe: Agonistic Politics and Artistic Practices – Oliver Marchart: Staging the Political: (Counter-)Publics and the Theatricality of Acting – Yana Milev: *M *A *D *V *E *R *T *I *S *E*. The Album – Yana Milev: Madvertise Yourself! The Madness of Self-Design via Mobile (App) Advertising and Social Media – Franco Berardi Bifo: Aesthetic Sensibility and the Genealogy of Economic Reason: From Protestant Indust-Reality to Baroque Semiocapital – Saroj Giri: WikiLeaks: the Radical Gesture and its Emptiness – Georg Franck: Mental Capitalism – Alexander Becherer: Paratropolis – Joachim Kreysler: Relational Design between Disaster