Erich Hörl

Erich Hörl (* 1967 ) is an Austrian philosopher , media and cultural theorist . Since 2014 he has held the chair for media culture at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg .

Life

Erich Hörl studied philosophy with Hans-Dieter Bahr in Vienna and with Jacques Derrida in Paris . He was born in 2003 at the Humboldt University of Berlin by Thomas Macho and Friedrich Kittler with the work “The holy channels. On the archaic illusion of communication ”(Diaphanes 2005) in cultural studies. From 2004 to 2006 he was assistant for philosophy of technology to Michael Hampe at the professorship for philosophy at ETH Zurich . In 2006 he was appointed to the junior professorship for media technology and media philosophy at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 2007 he founded the Bochumer Kolloquium Medienwissenschaft (bkm), which was considered an international center of contemporary critical media and technology discourse. In 2012 he was appointed to the W2 professorship for media technology and media philosophy at the Ruhr University, before he followed the call to Leuphana University Lüneburg in 2014. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Digital Culture Research Lab (DCRL) at Leuphana. In 2010/11 he was a Senior Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, 2013/14 Senior Fellow at the DFG College Research Group on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (mecs) at Leuphana.

subjects

Erich Hörl is part of a philosophical-political reorientation of German-language media and technology theory. He questions the process of cybernetization of modes of existence, which begins at the end of the 19th century and extends into the algorithmic form of government and economy of the present. This represents the preliminary climax of general cybernetization, which he calls environmentality following Michel Foucault and Brian Massumi , but with a technical and media-theoretical point .

Hörl is working on a comprehensive theoretical re-description, which the entry under the technological condition during the cybernetics era forces us to do, and focuses in particular on the transformation of the culture of meaning that takes place here: from a culture of meaning to a machinic culture of meaning, which he calls Technoecology or general ecology.

In recent years he has been working increasingly on the conceptualization of a general greening of thought as the epistemic movement that is fundamental to our present day and that accounts for this new great transformation. For him it is the core moment and the line of flight of contemporary critical theory and conceptual politics. General ecology sees itself at the same time as a critique of environmentality. Against this background, the establishment of media ecology can not only be read as the emergence of a new field of cultural-scientific media studies, but it also turns out to be a basic diagnostic discipline of the present day and a part of the far-reaching greening movement.

In addition, Erich Hörl is researching the work of Gilbert Simondon and Félix Guattari .

Publications

Monographs and editorships

• The sacred channels. About the archaic illusion of communication. Diaphanes , Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-935-30057-5 .
  • Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication , Amsterdam 2018: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978-9089647702 .
• (Ed., Zs. With Michael Hagner ): The transformation of the human. Contributions to the cultural history of cybernetics , Frankfurt / Main 2008: Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-29448-2 .
• (Ed.): The technological condition. Contributions to the description of the technical world , Berlin 2011: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-29603-5 .
• (Ed., Together with Mark BN Hansen ): Medienästhetik, special issue of the magazine for media studies (ZfM) , Vol 8, 1/2013.
• (Ed., With the collaboration of James Burton): General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm , London a. a. 2017: Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1-350-01469-5 .

items

• “Parmenidic Variations. McCulloch, Heidegger and the cybernetic end of philosophy ”, in The Macy Conferences 1946 - 1953. Vol. 2: Essays & Documents , ed. v. Claus Pias . Zurich u. Berlin 2004: Diaphanes, 185–201.
• “Roman machinations. Heidegger's Archeology of Juridism ”, in Judgments / Decisions , ed. v. Cornelia Vismann u. Thomas Weitin . Munich 2006: Fink, 236–253.
• “The technological shift in meaning. About the metamorphosis of meaning and the great transformation of the machine ”, in: Thinking media - From the movement of the concept to moving images , ed. v. Lorenz Engell, Jiri Bystricky, Katerina Krtilova, Bielefeld 2010, transcript Verlag , 17–35.
• "Luhmann, the Non-trivial Machine and the Neocybernetic Regime of Truth", translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. In: Theory, Culture & Society , Volume 29, Number 3, May 2012, 94-121.
• “A thousand ecologies. The Process of Cybernetization and General Ecology, ”in The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside , ed. v. Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, Berlin: Sternberg Press 2013, 121–130.
• " The artificial intelligence of sense: the history of sense and technology after Jean-Luc Nancy" , in Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy , 17/2013, 11–24.
• “The unemployed in technology. On the Critique of Ergontology ”, in Prometheus , ed. v. Claus Leggewie, Ursula Renner-Henke, Peter Risthaus, Munich 2013: Fink, 111–136.
• "Variations on Klee's Cosmographic Method," in Grain, Vapor, Ray. Textures of the Anthropocene , Vol. III: Ray, ed. v. Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand , Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer, Cambridge / MA and London 2014: The MIT Press, 180–192.
• “The technological shift in meaning. Places of the immeasurable ”, in: Places of the immeasurable. Theater according to the steleology of history , ed. v. Martia Tatari, Zurich-Berlin 2014: diaphanes, 43–63.
• " The technological condition" , translated by Anthony Enns, in: Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy , 22/2015, 1-15.
• "The Anthropocenic Illusion: Sustainability an the Fascination of Control. Erich Hörl in Exchange with Paul Feigelfeld and Cornelia Kastelan ”, in: Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, Valérie Knoll, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Art in the Periphery of the Center , Berlin / New York 2015, 352–367.

Web links

• The Whole Earth / Panel with Hans Christian Dany, Erich Hörl and Eva Meyer
• Erich Hörl: Origins of the Contemporary Ecological Paradigm

References and comments

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2. ↑ http://www.diaphanes.de/buch/detail/47
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4. ↑ https://ifmlog.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
5. ↑ http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bkm/
6. ↑ http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/
7. ↑ http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/
8. ↑ http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/mecs.html