holds the Chair of Media Culture and Media Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He works on the conceptualization of a general ecology and publishes internationally on the history, the problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition. Among his publications are General Ecology. The New Ecological Paradigm (ed., London 2017); Die technologische Bedingung (ed., Berlin 2011); Sacred Channels: On the Archaic Illusion of Communication (Amsterdam 2018); Gérard Granel: Die totale Produktion, ed. and with an introduction by Erich Hörl (Vienna 2020).
has been a principal researcher at the Institute of Theater studies of the Ruhr University of Bochum since 2011. She is working on the epistemology of theater studies and on the conceptualisation of theater history, out of a new interpretation of the concept of action in Hegel's Aesthetics. Her current research subject is a revision of the prevailing notion of Drama. She received her PhD in Strasbourg under the supervision of Jean-Luc Nancy, a Masters-Degree under the supervision of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and graduated in classical philology in Greece.