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Bianca Westermann

Bianca Westermann, Dr., holds a postdoc-scholarship at the Faculty of Philology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She received her doctoral degree in media studies in 2010 (published as: Anthropomorphe Maschinen. Grenzgänge zwischen Biologie und Technik seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Munich: Fink, 2012). Her current research interests focus on mobile media, social robots and cyborgs. Furthermore, she has been working on the medial constitution of man-machine-hybrids like automata, robots, prosthesis and cyborgs as well as the medial construction of postmodern identity in digital media. Recent publication: „Ist der Cyborg in der Realität angekommen? Mobile Medien und Mensch-Maschinen als Elemente des Alltags“. In: Marie-Hélène Adam/Szilvia Gellai/Julia Knifka (eds.): Technisierte Lebenswelt. Über den Prozess der Figuration von Mensch und Technik. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016, 159-172.




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Bianca Westermann: The Biomorphic Automata of the 18th Century

Mechanical Artworks as Objects of Technical Fascination and Epistemological Exhibition
Heft No. 02/2016 /// Abstract