Iris Dankemeyer

Iris Denkemeyer studied sociology and social psychology in Hanover and modern German literature and philosophy in Berlin. After completing her studies, she worked as a concert promoter and freelance writer, focusing on music and cultural criticism, feminism, and new sexualities. In 2019, she earned her Ph.D. with a dissertation titled *The Eroticism of the Ear. Musical Experience and Emancipation According to Adorno. She subsequently served as a research assistant in the Department of Cultural Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, as an adjunct professor of artistic research at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and most recently as a visiting professor of critical social theory at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Her areas of interest include psychoanalytic cultural theory and materialist aesthetics in general, as well as magic tricks, dance music, and table tennis in particular. She is active in the Klaus and Renate Heinrich Foundation and is a co-director of the Kunstraum West Germany in Berlin.