From “The Legibility of the World” (Blumenberg) to the machine-readability of connected data
Professor Sybille Krämer, Theoretical Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
The transition from manuscripts to digital writing is advancing unstoppably, and it is gradually dissolving the close link between librarianship and physical books in its wake. In her lecture, Professor Sybille Krämer discusses and answers a number of relevant questions, such as:
- How do we adequately describe the conversion of symbolic worlds and forms into data and machine-processable, digitised resources?
- What does the cultural technique of flattening mean in its historical context, i.e., the emergence of diagrammatic machines?
- And the most important question of all: How will the digital transformation affect the work of libraries?
Until her retirement in April 2018, Sybille Krämer was a professor of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Since March 2019, she has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and had posts at various other universities in Tokyo, Zurich, Lucerne, Yale, Vienna and Graz.
She received an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden in 2016.
Academic positions
Sybille Krämer is a former member of the German Council of Science and Humanities, the Scientific Panel of the European Research Council (ERC), the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen. She is a former permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and a former fellow of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the MECS research group at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Sybille Krämer also held the position of spokeswoman for the DFG graduate school Schriftbildlichkeit.
Areas of research
theory of mind; epistemology; philosophy of rationalism; philosophy of language, writing and images; media philosophy and theory; digital transformation theory.
More information about Sybille Krämer is available from her website at www.sybillekraemer.de.