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Dr. Sarah Bianchi, born on 14 July 1986, is visiting professor at the Department of Philosophy, Technical University Dresden. Before coming to Dresden, Sarah was assistant professor (“wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin,” postdoctoral) in the project “Perspectives of Critical Theory” at the Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt. Before that, she was project leader of the aesthetic sub-project “Government of the Self and Desire: Critical Aesthetics of Digital Enhancement” in the American Program The Enhancing Life Project at the University of Chicago, in association with Humboldt-University Berlin and Princeton University. For this project, she received a scholarship from Stanford University, the PSCS Visiting scholar award in February 2016, and served as fellow at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche of the Classic Foundation Weimar in spring 2015. The results of her research are presented in her second book Government of the Self and Desire: Critical Aesthetics of Digital Enhancement. Sarah holds a PhD in Philosophy from Humboldt-University Berlin. In 2016, she published her doctoral thesis Necessary to Each Other: Existential Recognition in Nietzsche (Wilhelm Fink Publishing House). Previously, she studied Modern History, French Literature, and Philosophy at Humboldt-University Berlin, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan/Paris, and Potsdam University. Though she received an offer to enroll at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, she accepted an appointment of the Social Science Research Center (WZB). Her master thesis entitled The German Kaleidoscope: The Dreyfus Affair in the Wilhelmine Public Sphere 1898-1899 was published as a monograph in 2012 (Peter Lang Publishing House).