Nisaar Ulama

Nisaar Ulama is a Berlin-based philosopher. His research areas include theoretical philosophy, the philosophy of media, arts and technology, poststructuralism and new materialisms. He is also a co-organizer of the Performing Arts Forum (PAF) in St. Erme-Outre-Et-Ramecourt (France).

He received an M.A. (Magister Artium) in Philosophy, Politics and International Law from the University of Bonn, writing a thesis about the concept of the homo pictor. After moving to Berlin, he joined the curatorial collective frontviews, and worked as bartender, driver and call center agent. He received a doctoral fellowship from the DFG Research Training Centre Visibility and Visualisation – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge (Potsdam/Berlin) and was a visiting fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

His dissertation examines the precursors of Algorithmic Governmentality between Operativity and the limits of representation in 17^th century rationalist thinking, the unfolding of biopolitical epistemologies, and avantgarde-movements from the Vienna Circle to Harun Farocki.

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

Dr. Nisaar Ulama
Media Studies
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