Obliterationen

[Translate to English:] Obliterationen

Für eine partikulare Medienphilosophie

Dr. Johannes Bennke

A culture of remembrance is mostly concerned with memory and preservation, while forms of forgetting remain to be conceptualized. In my dissertation I introduce the concept and practice of obliteration as a key term for an epistemology of forgetting. Starting with the French artist Sacha Sosno and his art practice of obliteration, I turn to his reading by French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. By collecting rare statements by Levinas about art and aesthetics, I further develop obliteration as a media philosophical concept, introducing Levinas also as a media philosopher. Obliteration addresses forms of deletion and destruction as a fundamental condition of creativity.

  • Biography

    Johannes Bennke is a Post-Doc Fellow of the Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied philosophy, film studies, comparative literature, and media studies in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Paris, and Potsdam. From 2015 to 2019 he had a PhD scholarship at the Center of Excellence Media Anthropology at Bauhaus-University Weimar, where he submitted his dissertation in 2021. In 2020 he received the Ursula Lachnit-Fixson PhD scholarship. His research focuses on media philosophy, image philosophy, aesthetic theory, and the epistemologies of forgetting.

  • Info

    • Graduating University: Bauhaus University Weimar

    • Supervision: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell, Bauhaus University Weimar

    • Co-Supervision: Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Mersch, ZHdK