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Christian Schwinghammer: Besides One Flow: Quantum Virtuality, Entangled Becomings, and the De-coherence of Ontology
Besides One Flow: Quantum Virtuality, Entangled Becomings, and the De-coherence of Ontology
(p. 181 – 202)

Christian Schwinghammer

Besides One Flow: Quantum Virtuality, Entangled Becomings, and the De-coherence of Ontology

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  • digital media
  • capitalism
  • art
  • economics
  • ecology
  • digital culture
  • cultural critic

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Christian Schwinghammer

is a PhD student at the research group SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media in Potsdam. With a background in Political Sciences, which he studied at the Free University of Berlin, his research is positioned in the overlap of media studies, philosophy and the natural sciences. He is currently working on a doctoral project about the recent re-negotiation of ontology in the name of indeterminacy and relationality, interrogating its ethico-political potentials in light of and in regards to changed self and world understandings and questions of alterity.
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