Florian Rötzer
Florian Rötzer (DE) is an editor-philosopher.
DEAF94 Symposium: Florian Rötzer; photo: Jan Sprij
Florian Rötzer is an author who writes for several magazines and curator of exhibitions on the field of art and technology. Rötzer studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. He works as a freelance author and journalist with an emphasis on philosophy and media theory. Together with the sociologist Dietmar Kamper, Florian Rötzer belongs to a group of German intellectuals who introduced and spread the works of the French media philosophers Baudrillard and Virilio in Germany.
Rötzer is editor of the German art-magazine Kunstforum and the online Telepolis (which he co-founded) and wrote, among others, Französische Philosophen im Gespräch (About French Philosophers, 1986), Die Telepolis. Urbanität im digitalen Zeitalter (Telepolis. Urbanism in the Digital Age, 1997), Megamaschine Wissen (Mega-machine Knowledge, 1999), Vom Wildwerden der Städte (Cities turning Feral, 2006). With V2_, Rötzer published Fascinations, Reactions, Virtual Worlds and other Matter in
Rötzer is specially interested in subjects dealing with war, military, or (anti-)terrorism.
