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Habit and Habitation: On Walter Benjamin’s Media Aesthetics and Philosophy of Technology

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

A lecture by Professors Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr University Bochum) and Reinhold Martin (Columbia University) Professor of Architecture Reinhold Martin will engage this semester's Max Kade Visitng Professor, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, in a discussion of modern philosophies of technology ranging from Benjamin to Heidegger, Deleuze/Guattari and Simondon. From Deutsches Haus Columbia.

Pearl Diving: Writing History after the Break of Tradition

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a lecture by Susanne Lüdemann, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, on "Pearl Diving. Writing History after the Break of Tradition". The Pearl Diver is the title of the third part of Hannah Arendt's essay on Walter Benjamin, published in 1968. In this essay, Arendt uses the metaphor…