Yvonne Förster

Leuphana University Lüneburg
Universität Konstanz
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    Mode als ein Prinzip der Moderne?: ein interdisziplinärer Erkundungsgang (edited book)
    with Hubertus Busche
    Mohr Siebeck. 2019.
    Es gibt offensichtlich nicht nur Moden der Kleidung, der Frisur oder des Wohnens, sondern auch Moden in den Wissenschaften, in Kunst, Philosophie und vielleicht sogar in der Religion. Das heisst aber gerade in Bereichen, die doch eigentlich 'feste Prinzipien' gegen den Wechsel des Zeitgeistes und der Moden verteidigen. Aber was bedeutet dann in diesen Zusammenhängen "Mode"? Und wie lassen sich solche geistigen Moden erklären? Gehören "Mode" und "Moderne" zusammen? Der vorliegende Band versuch…Read more
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    Social distancing has entered our bodies and changed our behaviour. The fight against COVID-19 leaves people with a different feeling of what it means to be together in the flesh. In this article, I will tackle the tension between virtualization of communication, social distancing and the basic human need for bodily contact. Sigmund Freud used the term ‘oceanic feeling’ to express human yearning for becoming one with others and the sense of fluidity of the self. This concept goes beyond basic in…Read more
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    Lo digital descansa en la computación. La programación utiliza algoritmos. Los algoritmos son el conjunto de reglas que resuelven problemas en un número finito de pasos. En este sentido, el mundo digital está regido por cantidades, números, reglas fijas. El grado de libertad parece muy limitado. Por el contrario, la actividad artística y la creatividad descansan en la apertura, la libertad y en experiencias cualitativas. Estas experiencias no solo son vitales para la expresión artística, sino pa…Read more
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    Art and Technology: Exploring the Aisthetic Dimensions of the Life-World
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2018 (3): 122-134. 2018.
    AbstractThe world we live in is shaped by technology and its development. This process is observed and debated in the humanities as well as in computer science and cognitive sciences. Narratives of human life being merged with and transcended by technology not only belong to science fiction but also to science: Theorists like Katherine Hayles or Mark B. N. Hansen speak of a technogenesis of consciousness. These accounts hold that our cognitive abilities are deeply influenced by technology and di…Read more
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    The Metaphor of the Net: Embodiment and Disembodiment in Contemporary Cinema
    Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2017 (2): 208-220. 2017.
    My aim in this paper is to sketch a picture of how we currently visualize human vs. artificial intelligence. I am going to analyze images depicting the transcendence of the human in recent movies, which I take to be significant for the contemporary conditio humana. I will examine how movies like Her or Transcendence invent and use images of human and artificial life. I will then analyze the images themselves, how they are connected and what underlying ontological assumptions can be found. My mai…Read more
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    Unsichtbares sichtbar machen
    Natur Und Geist: Über Ihre Evolutionäre Verhältnisbestimmung. 2011.
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    Kant meets Minkowski
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (1): 162-166. 2013.