Noah Grossmann

Associated researcher, dissertation project Scenes of Alternative Sociality in the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Theories

CV

  • since 2022 PhD student at the ZfL with the project Scenes of Alternative Sociality in the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Theories
  •  since 2022 member of the GRADE Initiative »Aesthetics of Democratic Lifeforms«
  • 2022 predoc-fellow at Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt
  • 2018–2022 Scholarship from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  • 2018–2022 MA Aesthetics and Philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • 2017–2018 Internships in Changemanagement (Volkswagen, Wolfsburg) and Human Resources (Leadec, Stuttgart)
  • 2014–2017 BA German Studies and Rhetoric at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Research Interests

  • Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Black Studies
  • Aesthetics
  • Social Philosophy and Theories of Subjectivation (20th Century)

Publications

  • Forms of Study — Or How to Interpret Black Music. Review of »Dhanveer Singh Brar: Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski. The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the early 21st Century.« KULT_online, no. 68 (November). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1414.

Lectures

  • Walter Benjamin: Formen des Gelächters oder Chancen im Kino – und wie sie begründet sind. Tagung »Chancen des Gelächters. Zur Ästhetik und Politik des Humors bei Walter Benjamin«, Berlin, Walter-Benjamin-Archiv, 15.04.2023

Courses

  • Winter Semester 2023/24: Kritikweisen von Kultur – zur Entstehung der Cultural Studies (Seminar), Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft
  • Winter Semester 2021/22: Einführung in die Philosophie (Seminar), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Philosophie