Prof. Dr. Yvonne Förster
Vita
Since 2016 Apl.-Professor for Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Theory of Art
2016–2017 Senior Research Fellow at MECS (Media Cultures of Computer Simulation), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, Topic: Computer Simulation in Neuroscience
2010–2016 Juniorprofessor for Philosophy of Culture and Art, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Theory of Art
2009–10 Visiting Professor for Aesthetics, Faculty for Design, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
2009 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Thesis: Die Zeit zwischen Subjekt und Objekt. Zum Verhältnis von Zeiterfahrung und Ontologie in der modernen Zeitphilosophie (Time between Subject and Object. Experience and Ontology of Time in Modern Philosophy of Time).
2008–09 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Research concentrations
- Philosophy of Technology (with regard to Ethics and Anthropology)
- Phenomenology Theories of Embodiment
- Philosophy of Culture
- Arts and Digital Media
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (November 2017–August 2018)
Research project “Emergent Intelligences. Neural and Artificial Nets in Science, Cinema and Art”
Abstract
Selected Publications
Single-Author Monograph
(2012) Zeiterfahrung und Ontologie. Perspektiven moderner Zeitphilosophie. (Experience and Ontology of Time. Perspectives of Modern Philosophy of Time), München: Fink.
Edited Volume
(2017, in preparation) Moden der Kleidung – Moden des Geistes, Hubertus Busche, Yvonne Förster (eds.), Berlin: Springer.
Articles
(2017, accepted, forthcoming, English and Chinese) Art and Technology: Exploring Aisthetic Dimensions of the Life-World, in: Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, de Gruyter.
(2017, forthcoming) Wenn künstliche Intelligenz laufen lernt: Verkörperungsstrategien im machine learning, in: Christoph Engemann, Andreas Sudmann (eds.), Maschine Learning. Medien, Infrastrukturen und Technologien der Künstlichen Intelligenz, Bielefeld: Transcript.
(2017) The Neural Net as Paradigm for Human Selfunderstanding, in: Jon Leefman, Elisabeth Hildt (eds.), The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain, Saint Louis: Elsevier, 159-177.
(2016) Singularities and Superintelligence: Transcending the Human in Contemporary Cinema, in: Trans-Humanities, Seoul: Ewha Institute for the Humanities (EIH), 33-50.
(2016) The Body as Medium – Fashion as Art, in: Irina Deretic, Stefan L. Sorgner (eds.), From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism?, Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 321-332.
(2015) A arte nos limites da arte – Hegel em tempos do Neuroturn, in: Rapsódia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, no. 9, 97-110.
(2012) The Modern Concept of Fashion and its Origins in Romanticism, in: Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann a.o. (eds.), Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Freiburg i.Br., Berlin, Wien: Rombach, 141-157.