Virtual Affects: History, Technology, Aesthetic Politics (D04)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 470106373

The research project D04 investigates the significance of affectivity in virtual lifeworlds. It is based on the observation, that digital computers are not only tools for logic, reason and knowledge, but affective objects in our lifeworld. This research project focuses therefore on Virtual Affects. It analyses a) different forms of affectsensitive data and affect-related virtual objects and b) the interaction between users with and in virtual lifeworlds. The research project and its subprojects examine history, media functions, technologies and aesthetic politics of virtual affects.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1567: Virtuelle Lebenswelten
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Anna Tuschling