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"On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds: A Cognitive-Semiotic Assessment of fi· fc · L"

In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, David Dunér scrutinizes the underlying suppositions involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) research, particularly the last three factors of the Drake equation.

"Fossilized Memory: The German-Russian Energy Partnership and the Production of Energo-political Knowledge"

This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.