Poetics and Politics of Data kids scientific and political activist perspectives on portrait scientific and political activist perspectives on ecology and modernity Für den Ethnologen Claude Levi Strauss markiert das Kochen von Nahrung die erste kulturelle Handlung des Menschen und damit den Beginn von Zivilisation und Handwerk Ramón Reichert and Roberto Simanowski explore the phenomena of ‹Big Data› and ‹Data Mining› and pose critical questions about the ambivalence of life in a «datified» world each of us generates a nearly incomprehensible amount of data: Our every move on the Internet leaves behind a digital trace