Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

-a world-leading metahumanist philosopher and a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome

-author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche (WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch (Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press, 2022), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Schwabe, 2022), Transhumanismus (together with Philip von Becker, 2023, Westendverlag), Homo Ex Machina (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Goldmann, 2023)

-in great demand as a keynote speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx)

-a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard, Die Presse am Sonntag)

-his reflections have been discussed in national and international media (Forbes, NZZ, Ekathimerini; Il Sole 24 Ore)

-Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” (a double-blind peer-review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017), Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the book series "Posthuman Studies" (Schwabe), Head of the Trivent Imprint "Transhumanism", and Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the book series "Beyond Humanism" (Peter Lang)

Further information is available here:  www.sorgner.de

My research profile is available on Google Scholar


A special journal issue on my "Philosophy of Posthuman Art" (Schwabe 2022) has been published by the journal “Deliberatio” in June 2023

 

In April 2023, the Italian journal “Ethics and Politics” published a special issue on my book “We have always been cyborgs” (Bristol University Press 2022).

 


Via the following e-mail address, he can be contacted for media engagements and invited lectures: stefan@sorgner.de 

Some Interviews:

Philosophies

In October/November 2014, Sorgner was an invited plenary speaker at the 3. World Humanities Forum which was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Daejeon Metropolitan City. 

Brave New Human - in German

Weak Transhumanism - in German

Interview David Orban

Technologies

On March 28, 2018 Sorgner was a keynote speaker at the 2018 Global Solutions Taipei Workshop. In the photo, you find him standing in between Prof. Blair Sheppard from Duke University and Dr. Chen Mei-ling, the Taiwanese Minister of the Development Council. Next to her is the former General Director of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, who was a special guest at the event! 

Global Solutions Taipei Workshop 2018

ZDF Info

TEDx Rome Genetic Modification

TEDx Stuttgart Perfection

Nietzsche

Health and Digital Data

Global Solutions Taipei Workshop

Arts

Discussion with Sven Helbig

Art Biennale Venice

Open Society Foundation Bratislava 

Transhumanism

“A deeply considered survey of the posthuman future of art. Sorgner’s philosophy of posthumanism provides a path away from the dominant 20th-century aesthetics that still inform our conception of art today. Through the innovative concept of the ‘twist,’ Sorgner’s encyclopedic text frames posthumanism as the foundation of an anti-totalitarian future of art.”              

                                                                                                                                             Eduardo Kac


“Philosophy of Posthuman Art impressively examines the aesthetics of the monstrous, of hybridity, of smoothness and of the amorphous, to name a few. It is an articulate and informed analysis not only of particular artworks but also their philosophical underpinnings of Critical Posthumanism, Transhumanism and Metahumanism. It not only includes examples of bioart, body art, performance art and cryptoart, but also techno, digital and cyborg music. It is a time when we transition from the ontology of Being to the ontology of Becoming. We are now in a liminal age of the hybrid and the chimera. And as Stefan Lorenz Sorgner reminds us, with a twist, we have always been cyborgs.”     


                                                                                               Stelarc

Eastern Asia

Southern Europe

Some Honors

University of Athens

„Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad 

    Short CV:

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, academic Advisor of Humanity+,  and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He is editor of more than 10 essay collections, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche(WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch (Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press 2022), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Schwabe 2022), Transhumanismus (mit Philip von Becker, Westendverlag 2023), Homo ex Machina  (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Goldmann 2023). In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” (a double-blind peer review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017). Furthermore, he is in great demand as a speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx, Colours of Ostrava) and a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard; Die Presse am Sonntag, Philosophy Now, Il Sole 24 Ore). www.sorgner.de & www.mousike.de