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Johannes Bennke is a post-doc fellow at the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and speaker of the Media Philosophy Working Group of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. His research focuses on image and media philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and (post-)phenomenology of digital practices, in particular the future of archives in Web3, digital governance, and the aesthetics of digital image cultures. Recent publications: His most recent book is Obliteration. Für eine partikulare Medienphilosophie nach Emmanuel Levinas (transcript, 2023).
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Johannes Bennke is a post-doc fellow at the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Before that he was a post-doc fellow of the Minerva Foundation of the Max-Planck-Society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current projects are concerned with the governance of future archives in decentralized networks, media of trust, epistemology of protocols, and the aesthetics of generativity. He received his doctorate from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany with a thesis on media philosophy and aesthetics according to Emmanuel Levinas. His research focuses on the philosophy of image and media, aesthetics, ethics and (post-)phenomenologies of digital practices. Since 2022 together with Markus Rautzenberg and Mirjam Schaub, he is co-speaker of the Media Philosophy Working Group of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM). Recent publications: Co-editor of navigationen, “Media Cultures of Value: Economy, Politics, and Art in Web3” (with M. Schaub; 2025), co-editor of Levinas und die Künste (with D. Mersch; transcript 2024); guest editor of communication +1, “Media of Verification” (2023); Obliteration. Für eine partikulare Medienphilosophie nach Emmanuel Levinas (transcript, 2023) and International Yearbook of Media Philosophy. Mediality/Theology/Religion (with V. Brower; de Gruyter, 2021).
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