Dieter Mersch

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Dieter Mersch studied mathematics and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Bochum and made his dissertation on Umberto Eco at Technical University Darmstadt. 2004-13 he was a Full Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Department for ‘Media and Arts’ at the University of Potsdam, and since 2013 he is director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Main publications: Was sich zeigt. Materialität, Präsenz, Ereignis, München 2002, Ereignis und Aura. Untersuchungen zur einer Ästhetik des Performativen, Frankfurt/M 2002, Medientheorien zur Einführung, Hamburg 2006, Posthermeneutik, Berlin 2010, Epistemologies of Aesthetics, Zürich/Berlin 2015.


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