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    Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts – An Introduction
    with Alexander Matthias Gerner, Thiemo Breyer, and Niklas Grouls
    In Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Matthias Gerner, Niklas Grouls & Johannes F. M. Schick (eds.), Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-8. 2024.
    This book opens up an interdisciplinary arena of research, contoured by the terms “gestures” and “artefacts,” and is oriented by a diachronic perspective on technology. In the context of anthropology, artefacts and gestures are both essential to understanding human culture and behavior. They are interconnected features that reveal numerous facets of a culture’s ideas, values, social institutions, and communication methods. In a general sense, artefacts are the material entities created, utilized…Read more
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    The logos of techné: A Case for Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology
    In Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Matthias Gerner, Niklas Grouls & Johannes F. M. Schick (eds.), Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts, Springer Verlag. pp. 163-187. 2024.
    This chapter develops the potential of a literal understanding of technology (as logos of techné), to develop an interdisciplinary anthropology. Technology in this sense draws together the diachronic aspect that is implied in the central hypothesis of French techno-anthropology that every technical object contains a crystallized human gesture and the systematic aim to understand human beings in the digital age. To outline the heuristic of technology as interdisciplinary anthropology I will focus…Read more
  • Introduction. The Durkheim School's "category project" : a collaborative experiment unfolds
    with Mario Schmidt and Martin Zillinger
    In Johannes F. M. Schick, Mario Schmidt & Martin Zillinger (eds.), The social origins of thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project, Berghahn. 2022.
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    Die innere Logik der Kreativität (edited book)
    Königshausen & Neumann. 2013.
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    The social origins of thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project (edited book)
    with Mario Schmidt and Martin Zillinger
    Berghahn. 2022.
    By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vi…Read more
  • Introduction. The Durkheim School's "category project" : a collaborative experiment unfolds
    with Mario Schmidt and Martin Zillinger
    In Johannes F. M. Schick, Mario Schmidt & Martin Zillinger (eds.), The social origins of thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project, Berghahn. 2022.
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    The Potency of Open Objects
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25 (3): 379-406. 2021.
    This essay researches the relation of the human being to technology in the Digital Age, employing the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, and Gilbert Simondon. These conceptions allow for a critique of the quasi-religious belief in Singularity in the transhuman discourse of Artificial Intelligence and its underlying ontology. This ontology is based upon the belief that the world is predictable and computable. To develop a symmetrical relationship with technology in the digital …Read more
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    On Technical Alterity
    Foundations of Science 27 (2): 515-520. 2022.
    This commentary introduces the notion of “technical alterity” in order to address the following questions: is it possible that technical objects can become “others” in analogy to Levinas’ ethics and can this relation provide solutions for the subject in the Anthropocene? According to Levinas, the human subject’s only break from having to be itself is in the consumption and enjoyment of things. Objects constitute thus an “other” that can be consumed, i.e., appropriated and be made one’s own. But,…Read more
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    Der moderne Mensch hat ein ambivalentes Verhältnis zu seiner technischen Umwelt: Einerseits besitzt er technische Objekte, sie sind sein eigen und er strebt danach, sein technologisches Netzwerk ständig zu erweitern und zu erneuern. Andererseits bleiben die ihn umgebenden Objekte ihm immer ein Stück weit fremd, er kann sie ohne Spezialwissen nicht eigenhändig reparieren, versteht ihr Innenleben nicht oder fürchtet gar, dass sich das Machtverhältnis umkehrt und der Mensch nicht länger technische …Read more
  • Cologne Summerschool of Interdisciplinary Anthropology
    In Gerald Hartung & Matthias Herrgen (eds.), Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie: Jahrbuch 5/2017: Lebensspanne 2.0, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 199-204. 2017.
    In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Fokus der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung auf die Rolle, die Funktion und den erkenntnistheoretischen Status materieller Dinge verschoben sowie auf die Praktiken, die mit diesen verbunden sind. Die Forschungen der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und der Science and Technology Studies schufen eine Heuristik wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, um den Phänomenen der Praxis wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und der aktiven Rolle materieller Dinge noch besser gerecht zu werden. Al…Read more
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    Plessner 2.0?
    Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie 5 (1): 279-290. 2015.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie Jahrgang: 5 Heft: 1 Seiten: 279-290.