Research

Katharina D. Martin introduces Henri Maldiney (1912–2013) as a figure of twentieth-century French phenomenology, whose work unites ontology, aesthetics, and psychopathology. Moving beyond Husserl’s phenomenology of consciousness, Maldiney develops an existential phenomenology focused on being-in-the-world, openness, and the genesis of …

10. Sept. 2025 * Title: Deleuze and Maldiney, A Phenomenology of Becoming  at the international conference Deleuze and Phenomenology * Bergische University Wuppertal * 09.-11. September 2025 Die phänomenologische Forschung an der BUW gehört seit über 50 Jahren zur strahlkräftigsten …

Wednesday 2 Jul 2025, 14:15 – 19:00 Campus Woudestein Sanders Building 0.12 * This Summer ESPhil Research Seminar on idealism gathers researchers who have been working on the concepts of nature, technology and politics in idealist thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as the relevance of their thought to the contemporary world. It also marks the first event of the newly established Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Technology.

Katharina D. Martin Tilling the Ground: On the Creation of AI-Generated Images. This paper explains the creative process of digital image production as a human/non-human interaction that resembles soil cultivation. One hypothesis is that digital technology has established itself as …