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Inhaberin der Professur
NameProf. Dr. Orit Halpern
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Orit Halpern is a historian of science and a media studies scholar. Her work is on AI, design, politics, and the future of knowledge production. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automating decision making and changing ideas of freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.
She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard. She has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, IKKM Weimar, and at Duke University.
She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, and governmentality. Her newest book with Robert Mitchell (MIT Press January 2023) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence.
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Prof. Orit Halpern holds the Key Chair of Digital Cultures at the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies and is the Speaker of the Disruption and Societal Change (TUDiSC) Concept Group. © TUD
Orit Halpern is also the Spokesperson of the Concept Group of TUDiSC Concept Group
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The measure "Disruption and Societal Change” (TUDiSC) (formerly “Societal Impact of Disruptive Innovations” - SIDI) is part of the endeavor "Strengthening research areas with great potential" in the EXU focus PROFILE of TU Dresden. It is intended to contribute to achieving scientific excellence and international visibility in all five Research Priority Areas of TUD, especially in the Emerging Field “Societal Change”, and thus to develop the university as a whole to a high level.
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