Since 2014, Erich Hörl is full professor of Media Culture at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also a senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Prior to this, he was professor of Media Technology and Media Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he was the head of the ‘Bochumer Kolloquium Medienwissenschaft’ (bkm). Furthermore, he is speaker of the Doctoral Research Group “Knowledge Cultures/Digital Media” and deputy spokesperson of the research training group “Cultures of Critique”.
Currently, he is working on a general ecology of media and technology as well as on a critique of the processes of cybernetisation of every form of life and every mode of existence, focussing on a historical-systematic outlining of a technoecology of participation. He publishes internationally on the history as well as the problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition.
He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Konstanz in summer term 2016.
Research Interest
- General Ecology
- History and theory of cybernetics
- History and Theory of relationality
- Philosophy of Technology and Media Philosophy
- Anthropology and Ecology
Publications
Recent publications include “The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital”, in: Cultural Politics 14:2 (2018), General Ecology. The new ecological paradigm, Bloomsbury 2017 and Sacred Channels. The archaic illusion of communication, Amsterdam University Press 2018 with a foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy.
Links
| SP 1: Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg E-Mail: hoerl[at]leuphana.de |
