- Philosophy, Critical Theory, New Media, Continental Philosophy, Film Aesthetics, Digital Humanities, and 11 moreRhetoric, Martin Heidegger, Media Aesthetics, Bernard Stiegler, Gilbert Simondon, Phenomenology, Friedrich Kittler, Philosophical Anthropology, Vilém Flusser, Science and Technology Studies, and Postphenomenologyedit
- Lecturer in Philosophy and Cultural History at Kulturakademiet - Oslo International School of Philosophy. My current ... moreLecturer in Philosophy and Cultural History at Kulturakademiet - Oslo International School of Philosophy. My current research is situated within the philosophy of technology, media aesthetics, film- and television studies and philosophical anthropology. I'm also an educated cinematographer and occasionally work as a photographer, in addition to running the film- and lecture series Aisthesis at Cinemateket i Oslo.edit
- Arne Johan Vetlesenedit
This thesis conceptually investigates the relationship between human existence and the technical object, and thereby relates questions faced within the philosophy of technology to the field of philosophical anthropology. This conceptual... more
This thesis conceptually investigates the relationship between human existence and the technical object, and thereby relates questions faced within the philosophy of technology to the field of philosophical anthropology. This conceptual work will be taken up in a twofold manner. Firstly, I detail how the Western philosophical tradition has tended to distance its own practice and thinking from the technical, and how it, relatedly, has hierarchically subjugated technics from what essentially defines us as human beings. This will involve a genealogical investigation of the figure of the philosopher and the technician, which will detail how and why these figures have been antagonistic and oppositional from the start. The argument being that this relationship constitutes a genuine hindrance for thinking of existence as originarily technical within the confines of traditional philosophical inquiry and its various schools of thought. Secondly, I conceptually investigate and phenomenologically describe the relationship between human existence and technics by way of an engagement with, first and foremost, the early and late thought of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, the work of the French palaeoanthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan and the thought of the contemporary French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The thesis sets out to question, in this regard, whether or not tool-user and tool, the human and the technical object are originarily prosthetically coupled, and hence if, so to speak, the inventor is also invented with what it invents. Its argument being, in this connection, that the invention of the human is technics. The central thesis of Heidegger’s later philosophy of technology that the essence of technics is by no means anything technical will thus be called into question.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Technology, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Technology, and 15 morePhenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Bernard Stiegler, Martin Heidegger, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Postphenomenology, 20th-century German philosophy, Heidegger's Being and Time, Master's Thesis, Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Engineering, Technics, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Philosophy of Technics, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Anthropology, Aristotle, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, and 15 moreGilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, French philosophy, German Philosophy, Existentialism, Being and Time, Dasein, Don Ihde, Anthropogenesis, Fenomenologi, History of Philosophy, Being in the world, Ernst Kapp, Epimetheus, and exteriorization
In memoriam of Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). An obituary published in the Scandinavian journal Vagant.
Link to publication: http://www.vagant.no/bernard-stiegler-in-memoriam/
Link to publication: http://www.vagant.no/bernard-stiegler-in-memoriam/
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Essay published in Salongen, September 2019.
Link to publication: http://www.salongen.no/plattformer-kapitalister-og-informasjonsprofitorer/
Link to publication: http://www.salongen.no/plattformer-kapitalister-og-informasjonsprofitorer/
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Essay published in Salongen, June 2019.
Link to publication: http://www.salongen.no/for-a-forbli-humanister-ma-vi-bli-kybernetikere/
Link to publication: http://www.salongen.no/for-a-forbli-humanister-ma-vi-bli-kybernetikere/
Research Interests: Information Technology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Technology, Humanities, and 13 morePhilosophical Anthropology, Cybernetics, Continental Philosophy, Science and Technology Policy, Technology and Society, Peter Sloterdijk, Humanism, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Norbert Wiener, Ethics and Philosophy of Science and Technology; Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies, Technics, Post-Humanism, and Adam Greenfield
Essay written for the Norwegian Writers' Climate Campaign and Morgenbladet, both published in February, 2019. Link to publications: https://forfatternesklimaaksjon.no/2019/02/03/rasende-forbi-kyoto-mats-a-nielsen/... more
Essay written for the Norwegian Writers' Climate Campaign and Morgenbladet, both published in February, 2019.
Link to publications:
https://forfatternesklimaaksjon.no/2019/02/03/rasende-forbi-kyoto-mats-a-nielsen/
https://morgenbladet.no/portal/2019/02/rasende-forbi-kyoto
Link to publications:
https://forfatternesklimaaksjon.no/2019/02/03/rasende-forbi-kyoto-mats-a-nielsen/
https://morgenbladet.no/portal/2019/02/rasende-forbi-kyoto
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Article written for the Norwegian journal Filologen on the Spanish film El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) by Victor Erice. Link to online publication:... more
Article written for the Norwegian journal Filologen on the Spanish film El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) by Victor Erice.
Link to online publication:
http://www.filologentidsskrift.no/barnets-blikk-monsterets-skikkelse/
Link to print publication (pdf):
http://www.filologentidsskrift.no/papirutgaver/
Link to online publication:
http://www.filologentidsskrift.no/barnets-blikk-monsterets-skikkelse/
Link to print publication (pdf):
http://www.filologentidsskrift.no/papirutgaver/
Research Interests: Cultural History, Literature and cinema, Philosophy of Film, Spanish Cinema, Film-Philosophy, and 13 moreCinema and Memory, Cultural Memory, Jacques Derrida, Film History, Cinema, Visual Arts, Frankenstein, Cinema Studies, Monsters in Spanish Culture, Serge Daney, Monsters and the Monstrous, Victor Erice, and El espíritu de la colmena
Book review of Aaron Bastani's Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Verso, 2019), published in Ny Tid, August 2019.
Link to publication: https://www.nytid.no/hoyteknologisk-kommunistisk-luksus-og-frihet-for-alle/
Link to publication: https://www.nytid.no/hoyteknologisk-kommunistisk-luksus-og-frihet-for-alle/