During this summer semester, our working group invited lectures and students to join discussions on elemental ontologies and media. A reading group provided the starting point for this series of lectures, focusing on questions of politicization and depoliticization through the natural, material, elementary and the non-human. Four lectures and an accompanying seminar dealt with criticism of prevailing knowledge systems, their potential…

As of July 2025, Anna Lena Menne has joined the Digital Humanities division at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University as a research associate. She works as part of the independent research group “Development of Symmetrical Mental Models,” led by Dr. Christian Schulz and associated with the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability.”