Gerrit Krueper

Gerrit proposes a trans-/post-humanistic theory of the cyborg theorized with the help of Japanese cyberpunk animation. His theory reads the cyborg on the means of both the cyber-body (production, resources, labor force, tools of labor/production, organization) and the cyber-brain, its immaterial realm (consciousness, species-being, social-relations, power struggles, networks).

Recent Publication Krueper, Gerrit. “Becoming Cyborg: Liberating One’s Real Species-Being. A Materialist Ontology of the Posthuman.” Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics. IOS Press: 2020. 501-509. Print.

Education

2019 – Present | University of British Columbia, Canada

• PhD in Cinema and Media Studies
• Cultural and Political Theory

2017 – 2018 | University of Rochester, New York, USA

• Master of Arts in Comparative Literature.
• Cultural and Political Theory.

2016 – 2017 | Research Master at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities

• Prestigious Scholarship for high achieving students of the Humanities.
• Extra research-oriented classes to prepare for a PhD.

2016 – 2017 | University of Cologne, Germany

• Master of North American Studies.

2014 – 2015 | State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), USA

• 1-year exchange program.
• Undergraduate in American Studies.

2012 – 2016 | University of Würzburg, Germany

• Bachelor of Arts in American/English Studies and Linguistics (Major) and German Studies (Minor).
• Critical Theory and Postmodernism.