Research

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.

Tilling the Ground: On the Creation of AI-Generated Images. * In this talk I explain 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 ground in the Kantian sense, as the earthly foundation on which we stand and from which we develop all our knowledge and skills. So, what is the nature of this ground, what is its surface like? Does it resemble a paved road with a fixed infrastructure or the cultivated soil from which something grows? My assumption is that interfaces for digital image production are more than a paved surface with permanently installed infrastructures, but rather resemble a ‘deep surface’. The digital programmes have to be cultivated, so that something new may emerge.

NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN IDEALISM * 23 July 2024 | 13:00-18:00 – Polak Building 1-23, Campus Woudestein * This summer seminar gathers researchers who have been working on the concepts of nature and technology in idealist thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as the impact of these concepts beyond the European context, for example, in the Kyoto School. It aims to reflect on the implications of this historical discourse in light of contemporary discussions on the Anthropocene and Planetarization.