Research
Current and selected research projects.
My work examines linguistic, pictorial, and multimodal communicative acts within the tradition of speech act theory inaugurated by J. L. Austin.
Doctoral project · in progress
The Aesthetics of Disinformation
The dissertation develops a mode-neutral account of communicative acts. It asks how public practices fix the content, speaker, and commitment of acts performed with pictures, and how synthetic media can place photographic testimony under pressure.
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Ritter, Erman und die Zink-Silber-Nadel
A source-critical reconstruction of Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s 1805 experiment and Paul Erman’s replications in 1807.
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