Johannes Bennke

Dr. Johannes Bennke is head of the Media Lab for Digital Sovereignty at Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf with project funding from the Postdoc Network Brandenburg (PNB). Before that he was a post-doc fellow at the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a post-doc fellow of the Minerva Foundation of the Max-Planck-Society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on media philosophy, the aesthetics of digital audiovisual cultures, and ethics of media practices, in particular forms of governance of archives in Web3. In his current habilitation project “The Art of Digital Sovereignty” he analyzes forms of digital sovereignty in art and media and develops a media-historical and media-theoretical approach to protocols for governing digital cultural heritage in Web3. He received his doctorate from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany with a thesis on media philosophy and aesthetics according to Emmanuel Levinas. Since 2022 together with Markus Rautzenberg and Mirjam Schaub, he is co-speaker of the Media Philosophy Working Group of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM).

Recent publications

Co-editor of Navigationen, “Media Cultures of Value: Economy, Politics, and Art in Web3” (with M. Schaub; 2025)

Co-editor of Levinas und die Künste (with D. Mersch; transcript2024)

Guest editor of communication+1, “Media of Verification”(2023)

Obliteration. Für eine partikulare Medienphilosophie nach Emmanuel Levinas (transcript, 2023)

International Yearbook of Media Philosophy. Mediality/Theology/Religion (with V. Brower; de Gruyter, 2021)