Friday, April 29, 2011

Issue 1.5. Scenes of Knowledge

Rete Mirabile. The Circulation of Voices in Philip Scheffner's Halfmoon Files; by Friedrich Balke

Friedrich Balke is Professor for History and Theory of Artificial Worlds at the Media Faculty, Bauhaus-University Weimar and spokesperson of the graduate school “Media of History, History of History”.

His areas of teaching and research focus on the cultural history of political sovereignty and legal theory, governmentality and modern biopolitics, interrelations of media and forms of knowledge, aesthetic theory and French philosophy. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, New York and at the University of Konstanz. His books and essays include Der Staat nach seinem Ende. Die Versuchung Carl Schmitts, Munich 1996; Gilles Deleuze (Frankfurt/New York 1997), Ästhetische Regime um 1800 (co-edited with Harun Maye & Leander Scholz), Munich 2008, and Figuren der Souveränität, Munich 2009; “From a Biopolitical Point of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime”, in: Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde (Hg.): Nietzsche and Legal Theory. Half-Written Laws, New York, London: Routledge 2005, S. 49-65; “Governmentalization of the State: Rousseau’s Contribution to the Modern History of Governmentality”, in: Ulrich Bröckling/Susanne Krasmann/Thomas Lemke (Hg.): Governmentality. Current Issues and Future Challenges, New York: Routledge 2011, S. 74-92.

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