Katrin Becker

With quite a bit of delay, I'd still like to announce that I’ve been elected Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie (CiPh) in Paris for the next six years: ciph.org

Founded in 1983 by Derrida, Châtelet and others, the Collège was created to “privilege infrequent approaches” and “to treat more of intersections than of academic disciplines” (Derrida) and has welcomed thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben or Judith Butler.

Our workshop series "Opinion. Public Opinion," which we have been organizing since 2023 together with @christianbermes.bsky.social and Gérard Raulet, will continue this September at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik.

This time the focus will be on Max Scheler's "Knowledge and Non-Knowledge in Society: Conditions of Knowledge Formation" - a text that hasn't lost any of its relevance. Programme: iuc.hr/programme/2132

Our project "INFRADEM – Reconfiguring Digital Infrastructure as a Site of Democratic Transformation" received a generous 5-year funding from the VolkswagenStiftung 🎊.

I am so looking forward to continuing to work with the fabulous @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @wesselreijers.bsky.social, Danny Lämmerhirt (Waag Futurelab), and Jan Rathje (CeMAS). Thanks a lot to @mirod.bsky.social and Gregor Bauer for your valuable contributions to preparing and delivering the pitch!

Our project "INFRADEM – Reconfiguring Digital Infrastructure as a Site of Democratic Transformation" received a generous 5-year funding from the VolkswagenStiftung 🎊.

Unser Buch "Einführungen in das Werk Pierre Legendres", 2024 im Verlag Velbrück Wissenschaft erschienen, ist nun als Open-Access-Publikation frei zugänglich: lnkd.in/ezsqDPd3 Kleiner Spoiler vorab: In Kürze wird es in erweiterter Fassung auch in englischer Übersetzung bei Routledge erscheinen.

Mit Beiträgen von #PierreMusso, Osamu Nishitani, Peter Goodrich, Serene Richards, Paolo Heritier, Georg Mein, Livio Boni, Andreas Rahmatian, Katrin Becker.

Unser Buch "Einführungen in das Werk Pierre Legendres", 2024 im Verlag Velbrück Wissenschaft erschienen, ist nun als Open-Access-Publikation frei zugänglich: lnkd.in/ezsqDPd3 Kleiner Spoiler vorab: In Kürze wird es in erweiterter Fassung auch in englischer Übersetzung bei Routledge erscheinen.

In seiner "dogmatischen Anthropologie" bündelt Legendre rechtshistorische, philosophische, soziotheologische sowie psychoanalytische Ansätze, um die Mythen und Dogmen freizulegen, die als irrationaler Kern das Fundament unserer institutionellen Ordnung bilden.

Unser Buch "Einführungen in das Werk Pierre Legendres", 2024 im Verlag Velbrück Wissenschaft erschienen, ist nun als Open-Access-Publikation frei zugänglich: lnkd.in/ezsqDPd3 Kleiner Spoiler vorab: In Kürze wird es in erweiterter Fassung auch in englischer Übersetzung bei Routledge erscheinen.

📣 New publication! My article "Truth, Text, and Technology: Critical Reflections on the Institutional Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence" is out in AI & Society rdcu.be/e9zXg

Drawing on continental cultural and legal theory, I argue that authorship is not an obsolete remnant of an outdated social model, but the central element of democratic institutional coherence.

📣 New publication! My article "Truth, Text, and Technology: Critical Reflections on the Institutional Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence" is out in AI & Society rdcu.be/e9zXg

In this paper, I claim that the biggest threat of the uncritical and widespread use of LLMs lies in the disruption of the textual relationship between citizens and institutions on which democratic rule-of-law societies depend.

...and this is not all, I've got even more good funding news 🎉 ! Our project "Protocol Studies: Making Art, Rethinking Law, Crafting Social Relations" received funding from the VolkswagenStiftung (440.000 EUR) 🎊

...and I've got some good news to share: 🎉 The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Luxembourg decided to fund our 3-year AUDACITY project "OAASIS - Ownership, Authorship and Accountability Systems in virtual Spaces" with 460.000 EUR 🎉!

Together with my Co-PI Réka Markovich (Computer Science Department) & 3 Postdocs (cultural theory, legal analysis,&computational legal theory) we will investigate how generative AI & blockchains are fundamentally transforming the legal & cultural concepts of ownership, authorship, & accountability.

Heading home after two incredibly intense and fascinating days exploring "Algorithmic (Dis)Orders" at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (see the program here: centregeorgsimmel.ehess.fr/files/2025/0...)

A huge thank you to all participants for their inspiring contributions and enriching discussions: Jean Lassègue, Pierre Musso, Giuseppe Longo, Sabine Mueller-Mall, Christoph Burchard, Francesca Musiani, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Marina Teller, Antoinette Rouvroy, @annanosthoff.bsky.social,

I would like to announce our upcoming conference “Algorithmic (Dis-)Orders: Law and Culture in Transition”, taking place on 22–23 September 2025 at EHESS, Paris, organized by Jean Lassègue and myself.

Looking forward to exciting discussions with Giuseppe Longo, Pierre Musso, @antoinetterouvroy.bsky.social Sabine Mueller-Mall, Christoph Burchard, Francesca Musiani, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Marina Teller, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, Chris Durt, Margo Bernelin, Ramak Molavi Vasse'i.

I would like to announce our upcoming conference “Algorithmic (Dis-)Orders: Law and Culture in Transition”, taking place on 22–23 September 2025 at EHESS, Paris, organized by Jean Lassègue and myself.

Now available open access: my latest article exploring how blockchains and NFTs challenge legal notions of identity. www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/zeit... (p. 89-102)

The focus lies on how these technologies challenge traditional forms of self-representation and raise new questions about autonomy and control - particularly regarding the role of the body in virtual environments.

Thanks a lot to Francesca Musiani, Mirjam Schaub, Balazs Bodo, Giovanni Sileno, Gilbert Fridgen, Joris Hulstijn for joining our workshop on virtual ownership - for the thoughtful and critical discussions, and your contributions to this engaging interdisciplinary exchange!