It’s official. In fall 2021 I will substitute Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber at the Department for Media Studies at the University of Paderborn as part of a guest stay. With this context, I am preparing four Seminars at the intersection of Media/Digitalization, Medicine, Posthumanism and Disability Studies: Cochlea-Implantate, bionische Prothesen und andere assistive Technologien. Digitale […]
Month: March 2021
Assistance – On the History of Assistive Ensembles (2nd Meeting of the network “Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media”) 17-19 March 2021 #ststwitter
The category of assistive technologies is often discussed as a political category (Alper 2017), as they invoke connotations such as “in need of help” with respect to the respective users (Mills 2015; Kotsch 2012; Ott 2014). At this meeting, the concept of assistance will be historically situated and questioned. The aim is to problematize the […]