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Christian Heller



Blogger and Theorist of the Net, Berlin

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
October 2012

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
»Internet-Meme and techiniques of the digital self«

Project outline:
Theoretisch und experimentell forsche ich zu Techniken des digitalen Selbst: Welche Ideen und Verfahren werden von Einzelnen wie von Gruppen verfolgt, um sich im Netz identitär zu präsentieren und zu verknüpfen?rnDazu kann etwa die Gestaltung einer persönlichen Website gehören, ein Facebook-Profil oder die Teilnahme an Web-Foren und Chats; aber auch das futuristische Konzept des »Mind Upload« – das Projekt der vollständigen Digitalisierung von Gedächtnis und Bewusstsein. Bisher habe ich diese Fragen vor allem unter dem Aspekt der Privatsphäre bzw. ihrer Erosion im digitalen Zeitalter behandelt. In diesem Zusammenhang wirke ich auch an der Tagung »Identität im Internet« mit, die vom 23. bis 24. Oktober 2012 am Forschungskolleg stattfindet; dort werde ich unter anderem die Position der »Post-Privacy«-Bewegung skizzieren. Gleichzeitig arbeite ich inzwischen verstärkt am Thema »Internet-Meme«; so werden Internet-spezifische Textformen genannt, die sich in der Netzkultur viral und oft als Identitäts-Marker bestimmter Communities ausbreiten. Ich arbeite als Koautor an einem Buch zu diesem Thema. (Christian Heller)

Research partner:
While at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Chrisitan Heller works together with Kathrin Passig (free author, Berlin), in the frame of the project »the digital self.« The project is sponsored by the foundation Johanna Quandt Universitäts-Stiftung.

Scholarly profile of Christian Heller


Main areas of research:
History of the net culture; change of the concept of privacy in the digital age (»Post-Privacy«); Internet-Meme as a net-specific textform

Selected publications:
  1. Post Privacy: Prima leben ohne Privatsphäre, München: Beck 2011.
  2. »GUROchan: imageboard perversion and the reinvention of bodies«, in: Of Intercourse and Intracourse. Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere, Wien: edition mono 2011.
  3. »Killing (the power of) time. Archiving selves, cities, histories and universes«, in: Mind and Matter. Comparative Approaches towards Complexity, Bielefeld: transcript 2011.
  4. »Die ›Ideologie Datenschutz‹ und ›Die Ressource Ignoranz‹, in: Medienwandel kompakt 2008‒2010, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2011.

Further activities:
Christian Heller writes as a filmcritic and commenator about the development of the internet for diverse online magazines, e.g. critic.de, carta.info, fudder.de. In 2008 he co-founded the »Coworking-Space-Netzwerk Hallenprojekt.de« and in 2009 the DIY platform »Bausteln.de«. Since 2008 talks on conferences about the new media, hckers und net policy (e.g. Transmediale, Lift Geneva, re:publica, Chaos Communication Congress). Since 2009 he gives seminars about the interaction of techonological and social development. His own projects are published on www.plomlompom.de. As an experiment, on PlomWiki he records in public his daily routine.

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