Byung-Chul Han, presently the most innovative philosopher in Germany, addresses in his lecture the defining impact of stone on certain types of architecture – including silicon architecture – and in particular its unyielding resistance to light in a transparent society. Julian Wolfreys, renowned not least for his influential interview with Jacques Derrida (published under the title "As if I were dead") devotes his lecture to the shadows cast and musings muttered by cities and walls.
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MODULE 1 – THE STONE TAPE
Julian Wolfreys renowned not least for his influential interview with Jacques Derrida (published under the title "As if I were dead") devotes his lecture to the shadows cast and musings muttered by cities and walls. Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University in the UK. He also lectures at the Universities of Luton, Dundee and Southern California. His teaching and research interests are the poetics and politics of identity, the ontology of literary forms, the relation between historicity and being, modes of urban representation, and the poetics of spectrality and haunting.
Byung-Chul Han, presently the most innovative philosopher in Germany, addresses in his lecture the defining impact of stone on certain types of architecture – including silicon architecture – and in particular its unyielding resistance to light in a transparent society. Born in Seoul, Han studied Philosophy in Freiburg i. Br. and German Literature and Catholic Theology in Munich and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Media Theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). In 2010, Matthes & Seitz published his book
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft ("Tiredness Society"), in which he analyses the consequences of a shift from a negative society to one dominated by an excess of positive thinking.
Andreas L. Hofbauer is a philosopher, psycho-historian and author, who in various books and numerous essays recurrently addresses socio-economic aspects of political science. He currently coordinates and supervises a multimedia platform on cultural projects in Berlin, and is preparing a monograph on the tactile eroticism of textiles. He has translated several books by Slavoj Žižek as well as work by Thomas De Quincey, Jeremy Bentham, Marshall Sahlins, Tom McCarthy and Terry Eagleton, inter alia.
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