Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (* 1957 ) is a Swiss media and cultural theorist and professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Deuber-Mankowsky's research focuses on the areas of mediality and gender , perception theories , practices of illusion and techno-imagination , media theory and philosophy, and life sciences.

She studied German and philosophy in Zurich and Berlin . She was co-founder and co-editor of the journal Die Philosophin . Forum for Philosophy and Feminist Theory (1990–2005). From 1995 to 2000 she was a research assistant at the cultural studies seminar at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

It became the subject of “The early Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen . Jewish values. Critical philosophy. Ephemeral Experience ”. Her habilitation thesis deals with “Practices of Illusion. Immanuel Kant to Donna Haraway "

Since March 2004 Deuber-Mankowsky has been a professor at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . As chair holder of the "Chair for Media Publicity and Media Actors with Special Consideration of Gender", she is also active in the network for gender research at the Ruhr University. She is an associated member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the ICI Berlin .

2017: Queer Post-Cinema. Yael Bartana, Su Friedrich, Todd Haynes, Sharon Hayes (Berlin: August Verlag, 2017)
2017: Mindsets of the Game. Media Philosophical Approaches , ed. with Reinhold Görling (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017)
2013: Located knowledge and regional epistemology: On topicality Georges Canguilhems and Donna J. Haraways , ed. with Christoph FE Holzhey (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2013)
2009: The Use of Life. Knowledge of life, medialization, gender , ed. with Christoph FE Holzhey and Anja Michaelsen (Berlin: b_books, 2009)
2007: Practices of Illusion. Kant, Nietzsche , Cohen, Benjamin to Donna J. Haraway. Vorwerk publishing house 8th Berlin 2007.
2005: Lara Croft : Cyber Heroine. Electronic mediations. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster, and Samuel Weber (series editors). University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis London. Translated by Dominic Bonfiglio. Foreword by Sue-Ellen Case.
2004: The Message of the Embassies. Edited by Beate Binder and Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky. Berlin sheets. Ethnographic and ethnological contributions; Issue 34. Münster 2004.
2001: Lara Croft. Model, medium, cyber heroine. The virtual gender and its metaphysical pitfalls. Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt aM 2001.
2000: The early Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen. Jewish values. Critical philosophy. Ephemeral experience. Vorwerk publishing house 8th Berlin 2000.

personal data
SURNAME	Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss philosopher, media and cultural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	1957