Roberto Simanowski

Roberto Simanowski is an Associated Member of the Excellence Cluster Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. in literary studies and a Venia Legendi in media studies and served as Professor of German Studies at Brown University and as Professor of Media Studies at University Basel and City University of Hong Kong. He is the founder of the journal on digital culture and aesthetics dichtung-digital.org (1999-2014) and has published widely on aesthetics, culture, and politics of digital media. His recent publications include Data Love (Columbia University Press 2016), Facebook Society. Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves (Columbia University Press 2018), Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy (Open Humanities Press 2016) and The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas (MIT Press 2018), whose updated German version received the Tractatus-Award for best philosophical essay in German in 2020.

Twitter: @R_Simanow