Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl

Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl has held the professorship of Media Culture and Media Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg since 2014 and has held the position of Vice President for Research since 2022. He is also co-director of the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society and deputy speaker of the DFG Research Training Group “Cultures of Critique.” Previously, he was Professor of Media Technology and Media Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and has directed the Bochum Colloquium on Media Studies (bkm) there since 2007. He publishes internationally on the history, problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition.

This inaugural seminar is based on Hörl’s research on the theory and history of disruption, which grasps disruptivity as a key problem for understanding the contemporary world; on a general ecology and critique of environmentalism.