is Assistant Professor at the Department of German literature at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. From 2007 to 2008 he worked in the Graduate Research Programme »Media of History – History of Media« at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He has published on theories of heroism, rhetoric and media theory as well as on the relationship between literature and political theology. He is currently working on a project about »Political Astronomy«.

is professor for Cultural Theory at the The University of Art and Design Linz/Austria. She studied German Literature and History in Vienna. Her dissertation was on »Computerhystories« and her second book is concerned with the theoretical figure »Prosthesis«. She worked as a researcher at the University of Vienna, at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and was also responsible for a range of curatorial and arts-projects, e.g. at the NGBK Berlin and at Kampnagel Hamburg. Together with Elisabeth Timm, she is the editor of Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften.

Daniel Tyradellis: is a philosopher and curator. He holds the Humboldt Forum Chair for the Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Curating, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In his work, he explores the different media and modes of thinking in art, science, and philosophy. Since 1997, he has conceived exhibitions for various museums, including Fire & Forget (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin), Scham (Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden), and FAKE (Stapferhaus, Lenzburg, Switzerland). Since 2021, he has been Vice Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was senior advisor for the exhibition On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin.