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4Von Metaphysikkritik zu non-naturalistischen ÖkologienZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2023 (1): 18-34. 2023.Three phases of a cultural-philosophical criticism can be distinguished during the last 100 years: Firstly, the metaphysical critique of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Adorno, secondly, the poststructuralist critique of representation as put forward by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida and thirdly ecological critiques as a countermovement, as emanating from Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Latour's Actor-Network-Theory. Beyond critiques of rationality and of power and d…Read more
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4Meta / Dia Zwei unterschiedliche Zugänge zum MedialenZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 1 (2): 186-216. 2010.In media philosophy since Benjamin, the concept of medium is conceived in terms of »translation« or »transport«. In a similar vein, Christoph Tholen has brought the literal sense of »metaphor« as »meta-pherein« into focus. In my paper I argue that Tholen's approach misses the »meta« (»in the middle« or »beyond«) of »metaphor«, corresponding to the Latin »trans«. This is contrasted with the greek »dia« that allows the development of a performative notion of medium, which orients itself at materia…Read more
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What is Koinōnia under Technological Conditions?In Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 273-284. 2023.
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I Married a PuppetIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 200-208. 2023.
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Mask, Face, CountenanceIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 210-213. 2023.
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A Brief Avatar-Network TheoryIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 214-223. 2023.
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5Get into The Uncanny ValleyIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 156-164. 2023.
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2The MaskIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 86-93. 2023.
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1The AvatarIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 24-29. 2023.
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IntroductionIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 4-22. 2023.
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9Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog (edited book)transcript Verlag. 2023.What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to perform them or to play trial identity games with them? Actor & Avatar addresses these questions from artistic and scholarly angles. Contributions on the making of »technical others« and philosophical reflections on artificial alterity are flanked by neuroscientific studies on different ways of perceiving living persons and artificial counterparts. The c…Read more
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9Beyond Mimesis: Aesthetic Experience in Uncanny Valleys (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2023.This book gathers an interdisciplinary group of thinkers to ask if intersubjective acts of relating can be transferred to artificial beings without remainder. Using the uncanny valley model developed by Masahiro Mori, this significant contribution to performance philosophy presents a clear framework to consider aesthetic experience beyond mimesis.
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Operation/OperativitätIn Kevin Liggieri & Oliver Müller (eds.), Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion: Handbuch Zu Geschichte – Kultur – Ethik, J.b. Metzler. pp. 287-290. 2019.Die Begriffe ›Operation‹ und ›Operativität‹ gehören zu einem Ensemble von Ausdrücken, die im weitesten Sinne das Feld kultureller Praktiken abstecken. Zu solchen Ausdrücken zählen ›Handlung‹, ›Aktion‹ oder ›Akt‹ sowie die klassische aristotelische Unterscheidung zwischen Praxis und Poiēsis. Erstere hat ihren Zweck in sich selbst, wie Spiel oder die theōria, Letztere bedeutet ›Hervorbringung‹ oder ›Produktion‹, welche ihr Ziel außerhalb ihrer selbst besitzen.
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4Bild: ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (edited book)Metzler. 2014.Vom Tafelbild über den Film bis zum 3D-Bild. Bilder überfluten uns in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft, der Umgang mit digitalen Bildern wird immer wichtiger. Seit dem Pictorial oder Iconic Turn haben sich auch die Kulturwissenschaften des Themas angenommen und eine Wissenschaft vom Bild und der Bildwahrnehmung begründet. Das Handbuch gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick, erläutert Grundlagen wie Semiotik, Phänomenologie und Ikonologie, analysiert verschiedene Einzelmedien und sich anschlie…Read more
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6The changing face of alterity: communication, technology, and other subjects (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.Addressing a challenge and opportunity that is definitive of life in the 21st century, this book provides a range of possible solutions that serve to motivate and structure future research and debate around the concept of 'the other' in communication.
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Aesthetic thinking : art as theōriaIn Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse, Sandro Zanetti & Frauke Berndt (eds.), Aesthetic theory, Diaphanes. 2019.
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10Aesthetic theory (edited book)Diaphanes. 2019.Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sides--theory and aesthetics--a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theōria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. Featuring lucid essays by major thinkers, …Read more
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3„Eine philosophische Weltweisheit kümmert sich um das,was jeden interessiert.“ Zum Tode Gernot BöhmesAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 47 (2): 293-303. 2022.
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2Benses existenzieller Rationalismus. Philosophie, Semiotik und exakte ÄsthetikIn Elke Uhl & Claus Zittel (eds.), Max Bense. Weltprogrammierung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 61-81. 2018.Einem Ratschlag Theodor W. Adornos an seine Studenten folgend, dass sich die Ideen eines Denkers am besten durch die Lektüre seiner entlegeneren Schriften erschließen, sei mit einer Passage aus einem frühen Text Max Benses mit dem Titel Die Rezeption des Geistigen begonnen, die 1949 in der Essaysammlung Technische Existenz erschien. Dort heißt es: »Der Fortschritt der Welt besteht darin, dass sie synthetischer wird. Also müssen auch wir synthetischer werden.« Erschreckt über die offenkundig affi…Read more
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Kunstmaschinen Zur Mechanisierung von KreativitätIn Andreas Hetzel & Gerhard Gamm (eds.), Unbestimmtheitssignaturen der Technik. Eine neue Deutung der technisierten Welt, Transcript. pp. 149-168. 2005.
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Nietzsche’s DionysosPerformance Philosophy 3 (3): 604-615. 2017.Nietzsche’s Dionysus, admittedly, represents a direct provocation and an attack on the classical interpretation accepted since Winckelmann, an interpretation that elevates the Apollonian to its central point of focus; Nietzsche’s introduction of another principle to oppose it, rather than representing a genuine invention, in actuality bridges the small gap between Hegel and Hölderlin. If, namely, the Hegelian aesthetic from the very beginning points to Schein and Erscheinung – as necessary condi…Read more
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11Ideen zu einer Kritik ‚algorithmischer‘ RationalitätDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (5): 851-873. 2019.A critique of algorithmic rationalisation offers at best some initial reasons and preliminary ideas. Critique is understood as a reflection on validity. It is limited to an “epistemological investigation” of the limits of the calculable or of what appears “knowable” in the mode of the algorithmic. The argumentation aims at the mathematical foundations of computer science and goes back to the so-called “foundational crisis of mathematics” at the beginning of the 20th century with the attempt to f…Read more
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3Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, Renderings (edited book)Transcript. 2012.This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international scholars from dance, theatre, film, media and cultural studies, art history and philosophy to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body in analog and digital film, animation and video art. The volume includes classical case studies and essays devoted to acting history and acting and genres, but its particular emphasis is on introduci…Read more
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13Meta / Dia Zwei unterschiedliche Zugänge zum MedialenZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 1 (2): 185-208. 2010.In media philosophy since Benjamin, the concept of medium is conceived in terms of »translation« or »transport«. In a similar vein, Christoph Tholen has brought the literal sense of »metaphor« as »meta-pherein« into focus. In my paper I argue that Tholen’s approach misses the »meta« of »metaphor«, corresponding to the Latin »trans«. This is contrasted with the greek »dia« that allows the development of a performative notion of medium, which orients itself at material practices of transition.
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10Ökologie und Ökologisierung: Befragung eines kritischen ToposInternationales Jahrbuch Für Medienphilosophie 4 (1): 187-220. 2018.
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