Interaction (journal)
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| description | Journal for Science - Technology - Society |
| publishing company | Interaction Verlag GmbH |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1979 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| editor | Reinhard Behnisch |
| Web link | e-periodica.ch |
| ISSN (print) | 0172-1623 |
The magazine Interaction: Technology - Natural Science - Society was a magazine that was published in Berlin between 1979 and 1990 .
organization
The initiative for founding the journal Wechselffekt came from a group of natural scientists who had already worked together as students, mainly at the Free University of Berlin . The group invited on 10/11. June 1978 a meeting in Berlin, where the aims and contents as well as the conception of the magazine were discussed. A good 150 people from all over the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin who were interested in such a magazine took part in the meeting. A central editorial office was established in West Berlin and regional support groups were formed. These groups worked for the central editorial office in Berlin and took care of the dissemination in the respective regions.
In the following years around 20 regional groups were formed throughout the Federal Republic: u. a. in Aachen , Bielefeld , Bonn , Braunschweig , Bremen , Essen , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Hanover , Kiel , Cologne , Marburg , Munich , Nuremberg , Oldenburg , Osnabrück , Reutlingen , Stuttgart and Wiesbaden .
In order to be able to begin with the publication and production of the interaction, the publishing house Reinhard Behnisch was founded in 1978, which was transferred to the interaction publishing house GmbH on January 1, 1985 with Reinhard Behnisch as managing director. In 1980 the editorial team moved to the Mehringhof in the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin, where it remained until August 1990. In 1989 the circulation reached 7,500 printed copies with 5,000 subscribers.
In 1990 the magazine "Interaction" was handed over to the Aachen engineering collective remember eG . This continued the magazine. The engineering collective later passed the journal on to the Aachen physics professor Peter C. Bosetti (1948–2012), who then merged it with the Swiss journal Vernetztes Denk , until it was discontinued.
The book by the American historian David F. Noble Machinist or the Complicated Relationship of Humans to their Machines in the translation by Paula Bradish also appeared in the publishing house of the interaction in 1986 .
Program
“The image of science is still glossy, entertaining and aesthetically pleasing. (…) The image of the spectacular result still hides the reality of the laboratory's work and the balance of power and interests in scientific and technical production. ”This is how the editorial staff of the interaction in the editorial of the first issue described the motivation for publishing the magazine.
While critical journals for engineers, scientists and technicians ( Great Britain : undercurrents , USA : Science for the People , Processed World, Netherlands : Revoluon ) had existed in Great Britain and the USA for several years , there was nothing comparable in German-speaking countries. In contrast to the professional groups of architects, educators and medical professionals who work with ARCH + , PädExtra and Dr. med. Mabuse already had alternative discussion forums at that time and could therefore serve as role models.
Content
Thematically, the editors outlined the contents of the magazine with the following keywords: work situation and political socialization; Political practice; Science and progress policy in the context of exploitation; Technology and its effects; Science, technology and ideology.
In April 1984, the editorial team of reciprocal action invited friendly, foreign, technology-critical magazines to an annual meeting in Berlin. Together with them, the reciprocal action organized an international congress “Sympathy for the Devil” on April 19 and 20, 1984 at the TU Berlin . “› Sympathy for the Devil ‹expresses the ambivalent relationship to computer technology. We have tried to invite speakers from different countries, each of whom will report from very different points of view on how computer technology is used in their personal environment, ”wrote the editors in the foreword of the congress reader.
Each issue had a main topic, which was often designed by a regional group or focus editorial team that had set up on this topic. Among the numerous authors of the magazine were a. Werner Bätzing , Gernot Böhme , Wolf-Michael Catenhusen , Freimut Duve , Hermann Glaser , Imma Harms , Karl Otto Henseling , Regine Kollek , Herbert Mehrtens , Wolf-Dieter Narr , Barbara Orland , Jens Pukies , Christina Thürmer-Rohr , Ludwig Trepl and Otto Ullrich .
| year | output | Main topic |
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| 1979 | No. 0, February 1979 | Social Impact of New Technologies |
| No. 1, May 1979 | Chemistry and the environment | |
| No. 2, August 1979 | Engineers at work | |
| No. 3, November 1979 | Technology transfer - neocolonialism or alternative development strategy | |
| 1980 | No. 4, February 1980 | In the service of the people and the race - technology and science in fascism |
| No. 5, May 1980 | Science in school | |
| No. 6, August 1980 | Humanized - smeared. The state program for the humanization of working life | |
| No. 7, November 1980 | Data Processing - A Means of Social Control | |
| 1981 | No. 8, February 1981 | Calculate or understand? Feminist criticism of science and technology |
| No. 9, May 1981 | Thinking about betting for war - whoever shoots first, dies second | |
| No. 10, August 1981 | Sand or cogs - experience in the gears of science and technology | |
| No. 11, November 1981 | Biotechnology - life as a productive force | |
| 1982 | No. 12, February 1982 | China - contradictions between society and nature |
| No. 13, May 1982 | Science fiction - departure into nowhere | |
| No. 14, August 1982 | Technical communication - channeling the senses | |
| No. 15, November 1982 | Mathematics - mathematization | |
| 1983 | No. 16, February 1983 | EDP: vandalism & sabotage |
| No. 17, May 1983 | Technology in the household | |
| No. 18, August 1983 | The sea - the last colony | |
| No. 19, November 1983 | Industrial culture - listening to things | |
| 1984 | No. 20, February 1984 | 1984: The great simplification |
| No. 21, May 1984 | Ecological perspectives & green everyday life | |
| No. 22, August 1984 | Assess technology - change technology | |
| No. 23, November 1984 | At least unsustainable - food | |
| 1985 | No. 24, February 1985 | Unions and Technology. A new relationship? |
| No. 25, May 1985 | Nothing new in the east? Natural science and technology in the GDR | |
| No. 26, August 1985 | New worldviews | |
| No. 27, November 1985 | Artificial intelligence | |
| 1986 | No. 28, February 1986 | External compulsion - internal attitude. Industrial work in transition |
| No. 29, May 1986 | Frostban - icy times for gene companies? | |
| No. 30, August 1986 | Energy - alternatives sought | |
| No. 31, November 1986 | School and computer | |
| 1987 | No. 32, February 1987 | Cushion: Four years of technology policy in Bonn |
| No. 33, May 1987 | High-Tech and »Third World« | |
| No. 34, August 1987 | Pull on the supply line. Other ways in building technology and energy policy | |
| No. 35, November 1987 | From disruptive factor to partner "people and technology": newly staged | |
| 1988 | No. 36, February 1988 | Give me a call. The post and its plans |
| No. 37, May 1988 | The burden of responsibility - the cross with ethics | |
| No. 38, August 1988 | World Bank: Nothing grows on mountains of debt anymore | |
| No. 39, November 1988 | The spirit of our time - 10 years of interaction | |
| 1989 | No. 40, February 1989 | Counter-science: a way out or a dead end? |
| No. 41, May 1989 | Initiate: Measures instead of dirt - North Sea landfill | |
| No. 42, August 1989 | Perestroika - New Paths in Research Policy | |
| No. 43, December 1989 | Environmental toxins: PVC dioxin pesticides | |
| 1990 | No. 44, February 1990 | "Yes, just make a plan ..." The dream of the plannable factory |
Web links
- Digitized version of the journal Wechselffekt: e-periodica of the ETH Zurich
- Libraries that have the interaction in the inventory: journal database
- Interview with Elvira Scheich , Barbara Orland and Reinhard Behnisch on March 9, 2016 at the ETH Zurich on the interaction (PDF)
literature
- Interaction - magazine for technology - natural science - society (self-presentation in: The Mehringhof presents: The brochures ). Berlin-Kreuzberg, around 1982
- Reinhard Behnisch: Liberation from the collective - the magazine ›Interaction‹ . In: The Mehringhof - An impossible business . Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ see obituary notice for Peter C. Bosetti, Aachener Zeitung 2012 , accessed May 5, 2020
- ↑ Interaction , No. 0, February 1979, page 1 (editorial)
- ↑ Interaction , No. 0, February 1979, pp. 1, 2 (editorial)
- ^ Congress Reader Sympathy for the Devil , Foreword, Berlin 1984