Media Theory, Philosophy of Language, Reciprocal Anthropology

1987: Teachers Exam, Bonn

1994: PhD, Bonn

2003: Habilitation, Konstanz

2003/2005: Research Coordinator, Konstanz

2005 – Present: Professor of Media Theory

2007: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Graduate Training Group Locating Media

2009: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Research Group on Occult Modernism, with Helmut Zander et al., University of Siegen

2015: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Sonderforschungsbereich Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen

2024: Fellowships in Weimar, Konstanz, Berlin, Muenster, Erlangen

I studied at universities in Hanover, Exeter, Bonn, Oxford, Cologne and New York, Columbia University. My research interests shifted from literary theory and literary history towards a philosophy of language and the history of anthropology. I became a professor of media theory as a result. Currently, I am in the process of publishing my major work  on media anthropology, and a small book on miscellaneous matters, plus an American translation of media theoretical articles. My last book was on the origins of modern hermeneutics. I have also published records and a film.

Figuren der Rede. Zur Theorie der rhetorischen Figur, (Philologische Studien und Quellen, Heft 136), Berlin: Erich Schmidt 1996

Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven. Weltliteratur und Ethnologie 1870-1960, Wilhelm Fink: München 2005

“Hunter into Prey. Trying to make sense of the ‘Media Revolution’ at Göbekli Tepe”, Working Paper Series No. 1 (August 2017), Collaborative   Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation: Siegen

Anselm Franke und Erhard Schüttpelz: Eine Art Weltkrieg, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt und Spector Verlag 2021 (Buch zum gleichnamigen Film)

Anselm Franke und Erhard Schüttpelz: A Kind of World War, Berlin: Haus der  Kulturen der Welt und Spector Verlag 2021 (Übersetzung ins Englische)

From Instruments to Containers, from Containers to Media: The Extensions of the Body, Siegen: Universität Siegen: SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation, Working Paper Series 21, online und als Einzelveröffentlichung gedruckt, online unter https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2103 (März 2022)

Deutland (2023 bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin)

Das Medium vor den Medien: Elemente einer Anthropologie (forthcoming in 2026 with Matthes & Seitz Berlin)

Media Theory, Philosophy of Language, Reciprocal Anthropology

1987: Teachers Exam, Bonn

1994: PhD, Bonn

2003: Habilitation, Konstanz

2003/2005: Research Coordinator, Konstanz

2005 – Present: Professor of Media Theory

2007: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Graduate Training Group Locating Media

2009: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Research Group on Occult Modernism, with Helmut Zander et al., University of Siegen

2015: Initiator and Principal Investigator, Sonderforschungsbereich Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen

2024: Fellowships in Weimar, Konstanz, Berlin, Muenster, Erlangen

I studied at universities in Hanover, Exeter, Bonn, Oxford, Cologne and New York, Columbia University. My research interests shifted from literary theory and literary history towards a philosophy of language and the history of anthropology. I became a professor of media theory as a result. Currently, I am in the process of publishing my major work  on media anthropology, and a small book on miscellaneous matters, plus an American translation of media theoretical articles. My last book was on the origins of modern hermeneutics. I have also published records and a film.

Figuren der Rede. Zur Theorie der rhetorischen Figur, (Philologische Studien und Quellen, Heft 136), Berlin: Erich Schmidt 1996

Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven. Weltliteratur und Ethnologie 1870-1960, Wilhelm Fink: München 2005

“Hunter into Prey. Trying to make sense of the ‘Media Revolution’ at Göbekli Tepe”, Working Paper Series No. 1 (August 2017), Collaborative   Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation: Siegen

Anselm Franke und Erhard Schüttpelz: Eine Art Weltkrieg, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt und Spector Verlag 2021 (Buch zum gleichnamigen Film)

Anselm Franke und Erhard Schüttpelz: A Kind of World War, Berlin: Haus der  Kulturen der Welt und Spector Verlag 2021 (Übersetzung ins Englische)

From Instruments to Containers, from Containers to Media: The Extensions of the Body, Siegen: Universität Siegen: SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation, Working Paper Series 21, online und als Einzelveröffentlichung gedruckt, online unter https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2103 (März 2022)

Deutland (2023 bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin)

Das Medium vor den Medien: Elemente einer Anthropologie (forthcoming in 2026 with Matthes & Seitz Berlin)