Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl

Professor of Media Culture and Media Philosophy

Director of the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media

Speaker of the Doctoral Research Group Knowledge Cultures / Digital Media

Co-Speaker „Cultures of Critique“ (KdK)

Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM)
Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC)
Cultures of Critique (KDK) 

Since 2014 Erich Hörl is full professor of Media Culture at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also a senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Prior to this, he was professor of Media Technology and Media Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he was the head of the ‘Bochumer Kolloquium Medienwissenschaft’ (bkm).

Currently, he is working on a general ecology of media and technology as well as on a critique of the processes of cybernetisation of every form of life and every mode of existence, focussing on a historical-systematic outlining of a technoecology of participation. He publishes internationally on the history as well as the problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition.

Team

Chair of Media Culture: Christian Voller , M.A., Researcher; Christian Kleinwächter, Research Assistant

German Research Council (DFG) Project Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation: Milan Stürmer, MA, Researcher; Jonas Kellermeyer, Research Assistant

VW-Project "Complexity or Control?“: Dr. Oliver Leistert ,Postdoc; Isabell Schrickel, PhD Candidate