KB.06.01:

This entry contains 1) Notes from Paolo's talk at the group meeting (10/04/2014). 2) Minutes of Group Meetin (17/12/2013-9/1/2014-16/1/2014-28/1/2014-28/3/2014). 3) Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City, by Thomas M. Malaby, published by the University of Illinois Press. 4) Handwritten notes. 5) Crisis and Contingency: Two Categories of the Discourse of Classical Modernity (2012), by Michael Makropoulos, published by Sage. 6) The Taming of Chance (1990), by Ian Hacking, published by the Cambridge University Press. 7) Our Present Misfortune: Games and the Post-bureaucratic Colonization of Contingency (2012), by Thomas M. Malaby, published by Social Analisys Vol.56, Issue 2. 8) Possibility Taming: Discipline and Insurance as Concepts for the Social Control of Contingency, by Michael Makropoulos, 9) Historical Contingency and Social Optimization, by Michael Makropoulos.

KB.06.02: 

This entry contains 1) Educated Hope: Ernst Bloch on Abstract and Concrete Utopia, by Ruth Levitas. 2) Elusive Futures - Book Project. 3) Nostalgia and Its Discontents, by Svetlana Boym. 4) Governmentality and Biopolitics: The Rationale, by S. Mezzadra et al. 5) The Birth of Bio-Politics: Michel Foucault's Lecture at the College de France on Neo-liberal Governmentality (09/12/2010), by Thomas Lemke, in Economy and Society, published by Routledge. 6) Handwritten Notes. 7) Seminar Literature for "Progress and Decline" with handwritten notes (16/03/2012). 8) Three Paradigms of Ottoman Decline, by Christoph Herzog.

KB.06.03:

This entry contains 1) Architecture and City Planning Projects of the German Democratic Republic in Zanzibar (2012), by Ludger Wimmelbücker, in The Journal of Architecture Vol.17, No.3.

KB.06.04:

This entry contains 1) Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia (2012), by Daniel Mains, published by Temple University Press. 2) The Future of Optimism (2000), by Peterson C., published by American Psychological Association. 3) Of Other Spaces (1967), by Michel Foucault. 

KB.06.05:

This entry contains 1) Handwritten Notes. 2) Brochure for "Utopies Réalisées".

KB.06.06:

This entry contains 1) Research Program 2014-2019 entitled Muslim Worlds - World of Islam? Conceptions, Practices, and Crises of the Global, by the ZMO Future Project. 2) Handwritten Notes.

KB.06.07: 

This entry contains 1) Seeds of Progress (08/06/2012), in the newspaper "Capital" No. 708.

KB.06.08:

This entry contains 1) What do we mean with "Islamic" concepts? The example of maslaha 'amma (public interest), the problem of translation and the possibilities of conceptual history (28/01/2010), by Dyala Hamzah. 2) Handwritten Notes.

KB.06.09:

This entry contains 1) Myths, Histories, Identity: The battles for the Past (1999), edited by Stephan Conermann, published by E.B. Verlag Hamburg. 2) Looking at the Coloniser: Cross-Cultural Perceptions in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Bengal, and Related Areas (2004), edited by Beate Eschment and Hand Harder, published by Ergon Verlag.

KB.06.10: 

This entry contains 1) Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia (2012), by Daniel Mains, in Cultural Anthropology Vol.27, Issue 1. 2) Handwritten notes.

KB.06.11: 

This entry contains 1) The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity (2006), edited by Mathew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson. 2) Conference Literature for "The Concept of Progress in Ethiopia" (14/12/2005). 3) Arab Visions of Modernity in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: The Appropriation of Universals or the Adoption of Foreign Concepts? ​​​​​​by Ulrike Freitag. 4) Self Images and External Images: Representation of Social Orders in Transition (2008), edited by Jörg Baberowski, Hartmut Kaelble, and Jürgen Schriewer, Published by Campus Verlag. 5) Social Optimism and the Perfectibility of Humanity: Projects to Improve the Human Condition and their Operation in South Asia, c. 1860-1960, by project manager Benjamin Zachariah. 6) Societies, Scouts, and Schoolbooks for the Arab Nation: A case study of Pan-Arabist Darwish al Miqdadi (1897-1961), By Ulrike Freitag. 7) Call for papers for the conference: Learning from Mistakes: The History of Failure and the Failure of History. (2012). 8) Handwritten Notes