Critique and the Digital

Erich Hörl ist Professor für Medienkultur und Medienphilosophie an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Er arbeitet an einer allgemeinen Ökologie, der Kritik der Kybernetisierung aller Existenzformen und einer kritischen Theorie der Environmentalität sowie an einer Faszinationsgeschichte von Nicht-Modernität. Er publiziert international zur Geschichte, den Problemen und Herausforderungen der gegenwärtigen technologischen Bedingung. Zu seinen Publikationen zählen u.a.: Sacred Channels: On the Archaic Illusion of Communication, mit einem Vorwort von Jean-Luc Nancy (2018); General Ecology. The New Ecological Paradigm (Hg., 2017); »Die Ökologisierung des Denkens« (Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 2016); »A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology« (in: The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, 2013); Die technologische Bedingung. Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt ( 2011, Hg.) und Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (2008, Hg. mit Michael Hagner).

Lotte Warnsholdt is Junior Fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna and a doctoral candidate in the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique” at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her research is interested in media history, memory studies and forms of critical practices. In her doctoral project she examines the genealogy of predictive media and asks the question of how prediction challenges the conditions of the modern project of critique. She has co-edited the anthology Weiterschreiben. Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardners »Affirmation und Negation als Figuren der Kritik« (ed., Judith Sieber, Marius Hanft) (Hamburg: Katzenberg, 2020) and, together with Liza Mattutat and Heiko Stubenrauch co-authored “Is Code Law? Kritik in Zeiten algorithmischer Gouvernementalität“, Kritik in Digitalen Kulturen, ed. Laura Hille, Daniela Wentz (Lüneburg: Meson, 2020 (forthcoming)).

Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a research assistant/doctoral candidate in the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique” at Leuphana University Lüneburg where she prepares her thesis on Édouard Glissant and Cybernetics. In 2013 she co-organized the annual conference of the German Society for Media Studies and has also been working for the chair of History and Epistemology of Media since then. From October 2018 until May 2019 she was a doctoral Fellow at the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, Montréal. In June 2019 she organized the inaugural Stanford Leuphana Summer Academy on Media Studies. Areas of interest include: media (and) technology, black studies, black feminist and critical race theory, and political thoughts and practices.

7 - 24 Introduction (Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Lotte Warnsholdt)25 - 74 The Critique of Data, or Towards a Phenomenotechnics of Algorithmic Culture (Mark B. N. Hansen)75 - 108 Artificial Critique (Luciana Parisi)109 - 146 Critique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time (Erich Hörl)147 - 184 Crisis-Unrest-Common Sense: Melanie Gilligan, Critique, and the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (Holger Kuhn)185 - 204 "Posthuman Documentary?" Speculation and Critique in Hito Steyerl's "Factory of the Sun" (Ying Sze Pek)205 - 228 The Grime of Critique (Lotte Warnsholdt)229 - 248 The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization (Timon Beyes)249 - 264 Presentism: Digital Cultures and the Legacy of Media Critique (Claus Pias)265 - 290 As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures (Clemens Apprich)