Dr. Noa Levin | Assoziierte Forscherin
Mutterinstitut
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Università della Svizzera italiana
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Fachbereich
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Philosophie
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Architektur
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Biographie
Noa Levin ist Postdoktorandin in Philosophie, Architektur- und Umwelttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften an der Università della Svizzera italiana und assoziierte Forscherin am Centre Marc Bloch. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind politische und ökologische Philosophie und Medientheorie.
Sie besitzt einen Doktortitel vom Center of Research in Modern European Philosophy der Kingston University in London nachdem sie als Gast-Scholar der Cambridge Universität eine Meisterung der europäischen Kultur und Literatur und eine Philosophie-Lizens an der Universität Tel-Aviv erwarb.
Forschungsthema
Noa Levin beschäftigt sich in ihrer Forschung mit der Politik des Klimawandels und untersucht dieses Thema sowohl aus philosophischer als auch aus räumlich-ökologischer Perspektive.
Ihr Postdoc-Projekt an der Akademie für Architektur, das vom Fondo Istituzionale per la Ricerca (FIR) finanziert wird, befasst sich mit "Thermischen Gemeinschaften in Zeiten der Klimakrise" am Beispiel der Stadt Berlin.
Titel der Dissertation
Living Mirrors of the Universe: Expression and Perspectivism in Benjamin and Deleuze after Leibniz
Zusammenfassung der Dissertation
This thesis argues for the significance of G.W Leibniz’s concepts of ‘expression’, ‘force’ and ‘perspective’ to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze. By triangulating the philosophical projects of Benjamin, Deleuze and Leibniz, the thesis opens up new perspectives and provides new readings of all three. Designating a structure of relations in which every simple substance or monad serves as a ‘living mirror’ of the universe, Leibniz’s concept of ‘expression’ denotes virtual inclusion or immanence. His concept of ‘force’ denotes the self-incurred drive that motivates the monad to action, while his ‘perspectivism’ defines the monads individuality through their infinite points of view on the world. Deleuze and Benjamin, I suggest, appropriate Leibniz’s concepts as part of their respective critiques of epistemology, which target Kant’s conception of experience as a hierarchic relation of representation, allowing them to redefine experience as non-hierarchal, de-centred and embodied. At the same time, for both, Leibniz’s philosophy serves to criticize historicist views of chronological time. Leibniz’s perspectivism is reformulated by Deleuze and Benjamin as part of their respective critical theories of the image, culminating in their later formulations of the ‘dialectical’ and ‘crystal’ image, respectively. The conclusion however, highlights the diverging paths formed by their returns to Leibniz. Benjamin develops a politically effective ‘historical perspectivism’ in which the discontinuity of history enables ‘true historical time’ to replace chronological time. Deleuze, on the other hand, opts for an a-historical pure form of temporality, his ‘mannerist perspectivism’ describing a continuous, perpetually repeated ‘becoming’.
Institution der Dissertation
Betreuer
Organisation von Veranstaltungen
7/2019 ‘Übersetzungen von Gewalt’ workshop on Walter Benjamins ‘Zur Kritik der Gewalt’, supported by Centre Marc Bloch and ZfL, Berlin.
6/2017 ‘Benjamin and Leibniz: On Expression’ workshop, supported by Goldsmiths University of London, The London Graduate School, and CRMEP at Kingston University.
Publikationen
Noa Levin. Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque: The Early Modern Origins of Media Theory. Walter Benjamin Studies, Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming in February 2025.
Noa Levin, Julian Raffetseder and Sascha Roeseler. ‘Governing Access to Sun and Shade: Urban Microclimates as Commons in Vienna and Berlin’, proceedings from the ‘Urban Futures - Cultural Pasts’ conference, Barcelona 2024, forthcoming in 2025.
Noa Levin. ‘Stargazing with Benjamin: Early Modern Science and Alienation from Nature’. The Secret Agreement. Ancient and Medieval Sources in Walter Benjamin. Eds. Leonardo Arigone, Elsa Costa, University of Delaware Press, forthcoming in 2025.
Mosè Commeta and Noa Levin. ‘Spatialité en marxisme’, Penser les spatialités,ed. Calbérac et al, forthcoming in 2025.
_______. ‘Walter Benjamin’s Environmental Critique: An Ecofeminist Reading of One-Way Street’ (article under review).
Steyerl, Hito and Levin, Noa. ‘Hot Takes: Image Production in Times of Climate Crisis, Noa Levin in Conversation with Hito Steyerl’. Foam, all about photography, Issue 66, May 2024.
Rebecca L. Stein, Noa Levin, Andrew Fisher. ‘The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein’. Philosophy of Photography 14.1, 2024.
Noa Levin. Book review essay: City, Climate and Architecture; Coping with Urban Climates. Urban Studies, 60(13), 2725-2730, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231168300.
_______. ‘Specters of Eternal Return: Benjamin and Deleuze Read Leibniz’. Filozofski vestnik, Special Issue on “World”, 2021.
_______.Review of Thomas Nail, Theory of the Image. Philosophy of Photography, Volume 11 Numbers 1 & 2, 2020.
_______. ‘Montage Mahagonny: Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht's Theatre of Interruptions’. Material und Begriff. Arbeitsverfahren und theoretische Beziehungen Walter Benjamins, (Hamburg: Argument) 2019.