Erich Hörl

Erich Hörl (1967) is a philosopher and cultural theorist. He is professor of Media Culture at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is also senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Culture Research Lab (DRCL), principal investigator of subproject 1 "Technoecologies of Participation:New Perspectives from Media Philosophy and Anthropology" of the DFG-Research Group "Media and Participation. Between Demand and Entitlement" as well as principal investigator in the VW-Project "Complexity or Control? Paradigms for sustainable development". His research interests include the elaboration of a general ecology of media and technology as well as the description as well as the critique of the process of cyberneticization.

Works

(in German unless noted)

Books

• Die heiligen Kanäle. Über die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation, Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2005.
• editor, with Michael Hagner, Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008, 450 pp. Introduction and Hörl's essay, Review.
• editor, Die technologische Bedingung. Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011.
  • "The Technological Condition", trans. Anthony Enns, Parrhesia 22 (2015), pp 1-15. Partial trans. of Hörl's introduction. (English)
• editor, with James Burton, On General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm in the Neocybernetic Age, Bloomsbury, (forthcoming 2016). [1] (English)

Editor

• Bernard Stiegler, Denken bis an die Grenzen der Maschine, ed. Erich Hörl, trans. Erich Hörl and Ksymena Wojtyczka, Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2009.
• Bernard Stiegler, Hypermaterialität und Psychomacht, ed. Erich Hörl, trans. Ksymena Wojtyczka, Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2010.
• with Mark B.N. Hansen, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 8: "Medienästhetik", Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2013.

Selected articles

• "Knowledge in the Age of Simulation: Metatechnical Reflections", in Simulation: Presentation Technique and Cognitive Method, eds. Andrea Gleininger and Georg Vrachliotis, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008, pp 93-105. (English)
• "Die offene Maschine. Heidegger, Günther und Simondon über die technologische Bedingung", MLN 123 (2008), pp 632-655.
• "Du déplacement technologique du sens: Sur la métamorphose du sens dans son rapport à la grande transformation des machines", trans. Guillaume Plas, Rue Descartes 83 (2009), pp 50-65. (French)
• "Die künstliche Intelligenz des Sinns: Sinngeschichte und Technologie im Anschluss and Jean-Luc Nancy", Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 2 (2010), pp 129-147.
  • "The Artificial Intelligence of Sense: The History of Sense and Technology After Jean-Luc Nancy (By Way of Gilbert Simondon)", trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 17 (2013), pp 11-24. With a new postscript from 2012. (English)
• "Le nouveau paradigme écologique. Pour une écologie générale des techniques et des medias", trans. Guillaume Plas, Multitudes 51 (2012), pp 74-85. (French)
• "Tausend Ökologien. Der Prozess der Kybernetisierung und die Allgemeine Ökologie", in The Whole Earth. Kalifornien und das Verschwinden des Außen, eds. Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013, pp 121-130.
  • "A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology", trans. Jeffrey Kirkwood, James Burton, and Maria Vlotides, in The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, eds. Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013, pp 121-130. (English)
• "Variations on Klee's Cosmographic Method", in Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray, vol. 2, Berlin: Revolver, 2014, pp 180-192. (English)
• "Other Beginnings of Participative Sense Culture. Wild Media, Speculative Ecologies, Transgressions of the Cybernetic Hypothesis", in Reclaiming Participation. Technology – Mediation – Collectivity, ed. Mathias Denecke, et al., Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. (English)
• Further publications

Interviews

• with Luciana Parisi, "Was heißt Medienästhetik?", trans. Reiner Ansen and Erich Hörl, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 8 (2013), pp 35-51.
• Paul Feigelfeld, "From the Anthropocene to the Neo-Cybernetic Underground. A conversation with Erich Hörl", #60, c2014. (English)

Links

• Profile at U Leuphana
• Profile at U Bochum
• Profile at IKKM Weimar (archived)
• Profile at Academia.edu
• http://www.diaphanes.net/autor/detail/28
• http://vimeo.com/13013566
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfOnkFczNk