Dr. Johannes Bennke

Research Focus

Media philosophy, the aesthetics of digital audiovisual cultures, and the ethics of medial practices, particularly forms of archive management in Web3

Bio

Dr. Johannes Bennke is the head of the Media Lab for Digital Sovereignty at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Before joining the Film University, he was a Post-Doc Fellow at the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv) and a Post-Doc Fellow of the Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his habilitation thesis “The Art of Digital Sovereignty,” he analyzes forms of digital sovereignty in art and media and develops a media-historical and media-theoretical approach to protocols for governing digital cultural heritage in Web3. He earned his PhD at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a dissertation on media philosophy and aesthetics after Emmanuel Levinas. Since 2022, he has been co-speaker of the Media Philosophy Working Group of the German Society for Media Studies together with Markus Rautzenberg and Mirjam Schaub.

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)

Internationales Jahrbuch der Medienphilosophie: Mediality / Theology / Religion (with V. Brower; de Gruyter, 2021)

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