Nisaar Ulama

Nisaar Ulama is a Berlin-based philosopher, whose research areas including philosophy of art, media and technology; critical theories of the posthuman and new materialism. He is a co-organizer of the “Performing Arts Forum (PAF)” in St. Erme-Outre-Et-Ramecourt (France).

After receiving a M.A. (Magister Artium) in Philosophy, Politics and International Law from the University of Bonn, he moved to Berlin and worked as bartender, driver and call center agent. He received a doctoral fellowship from the DFG Research Training Center “Visibility and Visualization – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge” (Potsdam/Berlin) and was a visiting fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

His dissertation (“Gegenstandslose Welten. Konstruktionen des politischen Kollektivkörpers zwischen Operativität und Repräsentation”) explores the political dimensions of operativity and the limits of representation. It examines the precursors of algorithmic governmentality, the rationalist thinking of the 17^th century (Leibniz), biopolitics, and avantgarde-arts (constructivism, Vienna circle).

Nisaar Ulama has been research assistant at the Chair of Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and a lecturer at Freie Universität and Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin.

Dr. Nisaar Ulama
Philosph / Media Studies
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