Karin Harrasser

Karin Harrasser (* 1974 in Kufstein ) is an Austrian media and cultural scientist .

Life

After studying history and German , he received his doctorate in 2005 from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on computer hystories. Narratives of the digital cultures around 1984 . In 2014, he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin on prostheses. Figures of a damaged modern age . Harrasser has been Professor of Cultural Studies at the Art University Linz since 2013 .

Karin Harrasser's main research areas include body, self and media techniques , processes of temporalization, theories of the subject / objects , popular culture / science fiction , genres and methods of cultural studies , gender and agency .

In addition to her academic activities, Karin Harrasser was involved in various artistic and curatorial projects, including a. The Undead: Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction at Kampnagel Hamburg, The Irregulare - Economies of Deviation at NGBK Berlin , Lures of Speculation at TQ Vienna , monochroms Arse Elektronika . She works regularly with the Mobile Academy Berlin ( Hannah Hurtzig ).

Karin Harrasser publishes the journal for cultural studies together with Elisabeth Timm .

In 2018 Karin Harrasser's German translation of Donna Haraway's Restless Stay was published. The relationship of the species in the Chthulucene in Campus Verlag .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

with Hendrik Blumentrath, Anna Echterhölter, Frederike Felcht: Beyond Money. Aporia of rationing , Spector Books, Leipzig, 2019, (= illinx.kollaborationen 2), ISBN 978-3959052108 .
Prostheses. Figures of a damaged modern age . Vorwerk8, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3940384775 .
Body 2.0. About the technical expandability of humans . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2351-2 .
with Doris Harrasser, Stephanie Kiessling, Sabine Sölkner, Veronika Wöhrer: Knowledge Play. Investigations into the knowledge acquisition of children in the museum . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3837619263 .

Editions

with Lars Friedrich, Céline Kaiser: Scenographies of the Subject, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-19208-2 .
Up close and personal. A history of knowledge of the sense of touch , Fink, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3593507279 .
with Susanne Roeßiger: Parahuman. New perspectives on life with technology . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3412505189 .
with Katja Rothe: Diets of Writing. Recipes and exercises . Mitterverlag, Wels 2015, ISBN 978-3-950-3686-2-8 .
with Lars Friedrich, Daniel Tyradellis , Joseph Vogl : Figures of violence . Diaphanes, Berlin / Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-437-8 .
with Roland Innerhofer, Katja Rothe: Ruling the possible. Governmentality in literary and cultural analysis . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1474-9 .
with Marie-Luise Angerer : People & Others . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011 (= Journal for Media Studies 1/2011 ).
with Thomas Brandstetter, Günther Friesinger: Ambiente. Life and its spaces . Turia & Kant, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85132-568-3 .
with Thomas Brandstetter, Günther Friesinger: Boundaries of the Sea . Turia & Kant, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85132-569-0 .
with Elisabeth Timm: Behavior Guides and Law . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010 (= Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization 2/2010 ).
with Daniel Winkler, Marie-Noelle Yazdanpanah: strategies of withdrawal . Löcker, Vienna 2010 (= meaningful 22nd journal for cultural studies ).
with Kathrin Friedrich, Echo Ho, Anneka Metzger: complain . Verlag der KHM, Cologne 2010 (= off topic 2 ).
with Helmut Lethen , Elisabeth Timm: Longing for Evidenz . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009. (= Journal for Cultural Studies 1/2009 )
with Günther Friesinger: Public Fictions. How to invent robots and humans . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3706547147 .
with Thomas Macho , Burkhardt Wolf: Torture. Politics and Technology of Pain . Fink, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3770544158 .
with Roland Innerhofer: Types of Imagination. Excerpts from a cultural history of the architectural imagination . Löcker, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85409-465-4 .
with Alan Scott, Sylvia Riedmann: Cultural Studies of Politics / Politics of Cultural Studies . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85132-445-7 .

As a translator

Donna Haraway: Remaining restless. The Relationship of the Species in the Chthulucene. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50828-3 . (English: Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham 2016, ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-1 )

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personal data
SURNAME	Harrasser, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian cultural and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kufstein