global dis:connect congratulates Dr. Anna Nübling, a former member of the gd:c post-doc programme whom we greatly miss, on the publication of her dissertation. The book, entitled Fortschreiten und Festhalten Zeitkapseln und Geschichtsphilosophie in der Hochmoderne and published by Kadmos, deals with the practice of preserving time capsules that their creators used to communicate with their own futures and to give their successors a certain few into their pasts. Anna also considers the philosophies of history implied by such practices, which she traces from the late 19th century to the 1970s.

Bravo Anna! We cherish our common past and look with great anticipation to your promising future.