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Dieter Mersch

Dieter Mersch

studied mathematics and philosophy in Cologne, Bochum, Darmstadt. In 2004 he became Professor for Media Theory and Media Science at the University of Potsdam. Since 2013 he is Head of the Institute for Theory at ZHdK Zurich and visiting professor at University Potsdam, where he is one of the chairs of the DFG Research Training Centre 'Visibility and Visualization – Hybrid Forms of pictorial Knowledge'. Dieter Mersch was a visiting professor in Chicago, Budapest and Luzern, and Fellow at IKKM Weimar and at ZHdK Zurich. His work focuses on media philosophy, aesthetics and art theory, semiotics, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and philosophy of the image and language.

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Bibliography
  • English
  • 2020
    Manifesto of Artistic Research, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2019
    Aesthetic Theory, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2017
    Digital Criticism, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2015
    Epistemologies of Aesthetics, Zürich, diaphanes
  • German
  • 2013
    Sichtbarkeiten 1: Erscheinen, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2010
    Posthermeneutik, Berlin, Akademie Verlag
  • 2009
    Logik des Bildlichen: Zur Kritik der ikonischen Vernunft (Hg.), Bielefeld, transcript
  • 2007
    Kunst und Wissenschaft, München, Fink
  • 2006
    Medientheorien zur Einführung, Hamburg, Junius
  • 2003
    Performativität und Praxis (Hg.), München, Fink
  • 2003
    Die Medien der Künste. Beiträge zur Theorie des Darstellens, München, Fink
  • 2002
    Ereignis und Aura. Untersuchungen zur einer Ästhetik des Performativen, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp
  • 2002
    Was sich zeigt. Materialität, Präsenz, Ereignis, München, Fink
  • Think Art
  • manifesto
  • media studies
  • epistemology
  • art
  • ethics
  • artistic research
  • discourse analysis
  • artistic practice
  • art theory
  • aesthetics
  • knowledge
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • visual thinking
  • thinking