Georg Christoph Tholen

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Georg Christoph Tholen (born December 21, 1948 in Cologne ) was Professor of Media Studies with a focus on cultural studies at the University of Basel from 2001 to 2012 . He is one of the pioneers of media studies based on cultural studies within the German-speaking area.

Life

Georg Christoph Tholen - third child of the lawyer Karl Tholen and his wife Charlotte, b. Gießel, - made his Abitur in 1967 at an ancient-language-humanistic grammar school. He then studied philosophy , sociology and psychology at the Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Marburg, Hanover and Berlin. 1986 he started thinking about wishes. Attempt on the Discourse of Difference .

Since 1980 he has been managing director and deputy director at the Scientific Center for Cultural Research (focus on media research since 1985) at the University of Kassel . Since 1982 member of the “Interdisciplinary Working Group on Basic Philosophical Problems”, University of Kassel, (research areas: philosophy of time , technology and media philosophy , philosophy of language and metapsychology ); Board member since 1996. Cooperation with various research projects with the Collège International de Philosophy, Paris (including Jacques Derrida , Jean-François Lyotard and Paul Virilio )

From January 1995 to 2007 board member of the working group “Computer as Medium”, implementation of annual interdisciplinary workshops on the dialogue between cultural studies and cultural informatics under the title “ HyperKult ” at the University of Lüneburg , computer center. Tholen completed his habilitation in November 1995. From 1999 to 2000 he was a substitute professor for cultural theory of the media and theories of comparative imagery at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 2001 to 2012 he was full professor for media studies at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Basel (basic reflection with a focus on cultural studies ).

Work and meaning

Georg Christoph Tholen stands for a new cultural studies approach to media theory that became increasingly popular from the 1980s onwards: his approach examines technical media, especially computers and the digital . In contrast to Friedrich Kittler , who rather assumes a media-technical a priori , Tholen brings his media concept to the common denominator of the in-between: “The most fundamental definition of the medium” [is] that of the “in-between”: Signs and media open up a spectrum of differences. Media are distinctions that make a difference.

Fonts

  • The media break. Cultural-philosophical contours . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-29152-1 .
editor
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Rudolf Heinz (eds.): Schizo -Schleichwege. Contributions to the anti-Oedipus . Impulse, Bremen 1984.
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Friedrich Kittler (eds.): Arsenale der Seele. Literature and media analysis since 1870 . Fink, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7705-2575-2 (= series: literature and media analyzes , vol. 1).
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Michael O. Scholl (eds.): Zeit -zeichen. Delays and interference between end time and real time . VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-17713-2 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Wolfgang Coy and Martin Warnke (eds.): HyperKult. History, theory and context of digital media . Stroemfeld, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86109-141-0 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Elisabeth Weber (eds.): The forgetting (e). Anamnesis of the unrepresentable . Turia and Kant, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85132-120-0 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Sigrid Schade (eds.): Configurations. Between art and media . Fink, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3348-8 (materials for the conference “Configurations between Art and Media” from September 4-7, 1997 in Kassel).
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Norbert Bolz and Friedrich Kittler (eds.): Computer as a medium . Fink, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7705-2870-0 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Manfred Riepe and Gerhard Schmitz (eds.): Transmission - Translation - Tradition. Episteme and Language in Lacan's Psychoanalysis . Transcript, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-933127-74-2 (= publication for the international conference in Kassel in July 2000).
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Hans-Joachim Bieber and Hans Ottomeyer (eds.): The time in the course of time . Univ. Press, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-933146-77-1 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen and Sabine Flach (eds.): Mimetic differences. The media's leeway between illustration and imitation . Univ. Press, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-933146-54-2 .
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Wolfgang Coy and Martin Warnke (eds.): To determine the location of analog and digital media . Transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-274-0 (= HyperKult 2).
  • Georg Christoph Tholen, Sigrid Schade and Thomas Sieber (eds.): Interface . Schwabe, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2150-9 (= series: Basel contributions to media studies , vol. 1).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Further representatives of this research approach are Norbert Bolz , Friedrich Kittler , Peter Weibel , Wolfgang Coy , Claus Pias , Sybille Krämer , Wolfgang Ernst , and Bernhard Siegert
  2. ^ Tholen: Medium, media . In: Alexander Roesler and Bernd Stiegler (eds.): Basic concepts of media theory . Stuttgart 2005, pp. 150-172.
personal data
SURNAME Tholen, Georg Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne