Publications

Monographs

Daniel Irrgang, Erweiterte Kognition. Zum diagrammatischen Zeichen als verkörpertes Denkding (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2022).

Daniel Irrgang, Vom Umkehren der Bedeutungsvektoren. Prototypen des technischen Bildes bei Vilém Flusser. International Flusser Lectures (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2017). 

Articles and Essays

upcoming/accepted: Daniel Irrgang, “Thought Exhibition. On critical zones, cosmograms, and the impossible outside.” ISEA 2023: Symbiosis. Conference proceedings, 2024.

upcoming/accepted: Daniel Irrgang and Anita Jóri, “Throbbing Gristle / Industrial Records Ltd.” and “Decoder,” in: ékhêo. FM Einheit im Dialog mit Siegfried Zielinski, ed. Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2024).

upcoming/accepted: Daniel Irrgang and Anita Jóri, “Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, 1972, Louis Bec,” in: Kunst in Bewegung. 100 Meisterwerke mit und durch Medien, ed. Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski (2024).

upcoming/accepted: Daniel Irrgang, three contributions: “Apple I, 1976, Steve Wozniak,” “Telehor, 1919, Dénes von Mihály” and “Project of Music for Magnetic Tape: Imaginary Landscape No. 5, 1952/53, John Cage” in: Kunst in Bewegung. 100 Meisterwerke mit und durch Medien, ed. Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski (2024).

upcoming/accepted: Daniel Irrgang, “Der Rückschlag der Apparate auf das Bewusstsein: Vilém Flusser, Don Ihde und eine erweiterte Hermeneutik,” in: Digitale Hermeneutik, ed. Thomas Bedorf and Peter Risthaus (University of Hagen, 2024).

Daniel Irrgang, “Exposition de pensée/Thought Exhibition. Sur les zones critiques, les cosmogrammes et l’impossibilité d’un dehors” [Thought Exhibition. On critical zones, cosmograms, and the impossible outside]. Les cahiers du Musée national d’Art moderne 164. Centre Georges Pompidou (2023), pp. 61–69.

Daniel Irrgang, “Thought Exhibition,” in: Weak Signals. New Narratives in Art and Technology, ed. Lukas Feireiss and Florian Hadler  (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2023), pp. 146–147.

Daniel Irrgang, “Forord” [Preface], in: Siegfried Zielinski, Varianter af fælles handling i kunsten. Art as Forum 10 (Copenhagen: Billedkunstskolernes Forlag, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, 2023), pp. 5–8.

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “Den Menschen navigieren,” in: Form follows data. Design in der digitalen Ära, ed. Hyun Kang Kim (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2023), pp. 227–238.

Christoph Ernst and Daniel Irrgang, “Editorial: Diagrammatic Operations.” Interface Critique 4: Diagrammatic Operations (2023), pp. 7–16.

Daniel Irrgang, “Editorial preface: Vilém Flusser, Towards a map of the body.” Interface Critique 4: Diagrammatic Operations (2023), pp. 70–72.

Daniel Irrgang, “Projective Imagination: Vilém Flussers’s Concept of the Technical Image.” Theory, Culture & Society 40/7-8 (2023), pp. 73–90.

Daniel Irrgang, “Critical zone, or: the impossible outside” [in English and Spanish], in: Trabajos de Campo / Field Works, exhibition catalogue, ed. George Godoy (Santiago de Chile: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2023).

Daniel Irrgang, Martin Guinard-Terrin and Bettina Korintenberg, “Critical Zones. Ein Forschungsseminar mit Bruno Latour,” in: Visual Past. A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures 7 (2023), pp. 71–88 [revised version of the essay with the same name in Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande 50/2 (2018)].

Daniel Irrgang, “Transhumanist Eschatology,” [expanded version of the 2020 paper with MIT Press] in: Uncanny Entrepreneurship, ed. Konstantin Daniel Haensch, Lara Nelke and Matthias Planitzer (Hamburg: Textem, 2022).

Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski, “Jeffrey Shaw and Dirk Groeneveld (The Legible City),” in: Kinetismus. 100 Years of Electricity in Art, ed. Peter Weibel and Christelle Havranek (Berlin: Hatje Cantz/Prague: Kunsthalle Praha, 2022), pp. 204–205.

Daniel Irrgang, “Vilém Flusser in open circuits: The dialogic capacity of video images,” in: Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, ed. Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini and Michael Miller. Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series (London et al.: Bloomsburry, 2021).

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “Editorial: Depth of Field.” Interface Critique 3: Depth of Field (2021), pp. 7–12.

Daniel Irrgang, “The Flusser-Hypertext: ‘Electronic Book Prototype 2’.” Interface Critique 3: Depth of Field (2021), pp. 103–114. 

Daniel Irrgang, “Reversing the vectors of meaning. The diagrammatic language of Vilém Flusser.” Flusser Studies 30 (2021). 

Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn, “Chronotopologies.” KOKO online journal, Zurich University of the Arts (December 2020).

Daniel Irrgang, “Vilém Flussers Black Box,” in: Black Boxes. Versiegelungskontexte und Öffnungsversuche. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, ed. Eckhard Geitz, Christian Vater and Silke Zimmer-Merkle. Part of the series “Materielle Textkulturen” (Berlin et al.: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 53–69.

Daniel Irrgang, “Transhumanist Eschatologies,” in: Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), pp. 288–291.

Daniel Irrgang, “Telepresence and the decay of private space (in times of crisis),” in: Flusser Studies 29 (2020).

Daniel Irrgang, “The Improbable Image: Traces of Information Aesthetics in Vilém Flusser’s Image Theory.” Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age 13 (2020), pp. 65–80.

Daniel Irrgang, “Où atterrir? Bericht aus einem Forschungsseminar mit Bruno Latour,” in: Texturen vol. 6: Rübern, ed. Konstantin D. Haensch, Daniel Kuka, Elena Delasega and Eva Düllo (Berlin: UdK-Verlag, 2020), pp. 179–194.

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “Editorial: Navigating the Human,” in: Interface Critique 2: Navigating the Human (2019), pp. 7–16.

Daniel Irrgang, “Leibniz – I Ching – Cage. Blind Thinking and Chance Operations,” in: DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice, ed. Amador Vega Esquerra, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), pp. 270–282.

Daniel Irrgang, text miniatures accompanying the figures “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dissertatio de arte combinatoria” and “Diagram of I Ching / I Ging hexagrams owned by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,” in: DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice, ed. Amador Vega Esquerra, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), p. 146 & p. 148.

Daniel Irrgang, Martin Guinard-Terrin and Bettina Korintenberg, “Critical Zones. Ein Forschungsseminar mit Bruno Latour,” in: Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande 50/2 (2018). Issue focus: Humanités Environnementales. Quoi de neuf du côté des méthodes?, pp. 297–308. Also going to be published in the online journal Visual Past. A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures (2019/20).

Daniel Irrgang, “AnCanonical Icons,” in: Thresholds 2 (2018) [experimental digital publishing journal, University of Louisville/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill].

Daniel Irrgang, “Vorwort des Vilém Flusser Archivs, Oktober 2017” [preface to the previously unpublished publication project Flusser-Quellen, a biography of Flusser publications (1960–2002) by Klaus Sander, now available on the Vilém Flusser Archive’s website], published in: Flusser Studies 24 (2017), n. p.

Daniel Irrgang, “Eine Phänomenologie der Dinge. Vilém Flusser (1920–1991)” – preface of the first Russian translation of Flusser’s Vom Stand der Dinge, along with five essays taken from Dinge und Undinge, in: Вилем Флюссер, О положении вещей. Малая философия дизайна(Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2017), pp. 12­–17.

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “No linealidad, multilinealidad, simultaneidad. Notas sobre estructuras epistemológicas,” in: Más allá del texto. Cultura digital y nuevas epistemologías, ed. Ileana Azor Hernández, Luisa Fernanda Grijalva Maza and Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gómez Rossi (Mexico City: Editorial Itaca, 2016), pp. 117–134.

Daniel Irrgang, “Topological Surfaces: On Diagrams and Graphical User Interfaces,” in: Interface Critique, ed. Florian Hadler and Joachim Haupt (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016), pp. 49–73.

Frank Padberg, Philipp Tögel, Daniel Irrgang and Martin Häberle, “A Case Study on Emulation-based Preservation in the Museum: Flusser Hypertext.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation IPRES (2016), pp. 149–158.

Daniel Irrgang and Sandra Moskova, “Projection in Context. Aesthetic Urban Practices on Site-Specifity.” Lazy Bastard2 (2016), n. p.

Daniel Irrgang, “‘Broadcasting belongs to the citizens!’ The potential of electronic media and the Berlin Open Channel,” in: Atlas of MediaThinking and MediaActing in Berlin, ed. Kristin Moellering and Leon Strauch in collaboration with Stefanie Rau (Berlin: Berlin University of the Arts & transmediale/art & digital culture, 2016), map format: quadrant I7–I8.

Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski, “Flusser ja muistit, sähköiset ja muut” [“‘…electronic or otherwise’ – Vilém Flusser”, introduction to the Finnish translation of Vilém Flusser’s essay “On Memory“]. niin & näin 4 (2015), pp. 33–36.

Daniel Irrgang, “Die Briefe zwischen Vilém Flusser und Felix Philipp Ingold, 1981–1990.“ Flusser Studies 20 (2015), n. p.

Daniel Irrgang, Clemens Jahn and Siegfried Zielinski) “Zur Genealogie des Flusser’schen Denkens,” diagrammatic work in: Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste, exhibition catalogue, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Daniel Irrgang for the Academy of Arts, Berlin (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2015), pp. 50–51.

Daniel Irrgang, “Vilém Flusser: Eine minimale Biografie,” in: Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste, exhibition catalogue, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Daniel Irrgang for the Academy of Arts, Berlin (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2015), pp. 117–120.

Daniel Irrgang, Clemens Jahn and Siegfried Zielinski, “Provenances and Futures: The World of Arabic-Islamic Automata as an Interface Between Old and New World,” diagrammatic work with introduction text in: Allah’s Automata. Artifacts of the Arab-Islamic Renaissance (800–1200), exhibition catalogue, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Peter Weibel (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015), inner cover pages.

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “Instant Sensemaking, Immersion and Invisibility – Notes on the Genealogy of Interface Paradigms.” Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 1 (2015). Special issue: “Semiotics of the Web,” n. p.

Daniel Irrgang, five contributions: “Library / Bibliothek / Biblioteca” (pp. 250–253), “Diagram / Diagramm / Diagrama”  (pp. 142–145), “Project, to; Draft, to / Entwerfen / Projetar”  (pp. 330–333), “Telepresence, Telepräsenz, Telepresença” (pp. 396–399), “Truth, Wahrheit, Verdade” (pp. 418–421), in: Flusseriana. An Intellectual Toolbox, tri-lingual: English, German, Portuguese, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel, and Daniel Irrgang (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015).

Daniel Irrgang and Marcel René Marburger, “Vilém Flusser. A biography” / “Vilém Flusser. Eine Biographie” / “Vilém Flusser. Uma biografia” [extensively revised biography], in: Flusseriana. An Intellectual Toolbox, tri-lingual: English, German, Portuguese, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel, and Daniel Irrgang (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015), pp. 452–519.

Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski, Introduction to the facsimile print of Vilém Flusser’s essay “Rückschlag der Werkzeuge auf das Bewusstsein,” in: Graham Harman, Die Rache der Oberfläche: Heidegger, McLuhan, Greenberg. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015), pp. 33–34.

Daniel Irrgang, “‘The intensity of concern is the measure of the real’ [introduction to a facsimile print of an essay by Vilém Flusser]” (pp. 160–161), “‘Für eine materialistische Medienwissenschaft!’ [introduction to a facsimile print of an 1973 essay by Siegfried Zielinski]” (pp. 249–250), in: Forum zur Genealogie des MedienDenkensVol. 2, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Konstantin Daniel Haensch and Inger Neick (Berlin: UdK-Verlag, 2014).

Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang, “Nonlinearity, Multilinearity, Simultaneity. Notes on Epistemological Structures,” in: Interactive Narratives, New Media, and Social Engagement, proceedings, ed. Hudson Moura, Ricardo Sternberg, Regina Cunha, Cecilia Queiroz and Martin Zeilinger (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014), n. p.

Daniel Irrgang, five contributions: “Cultura experimentalis” (pp. 56–57), “Eingreifendes Denken / Intervening Thought” (pp. 62–67) “Genealogie / Genealogy” (pp. 77–78), “Kulturtechnik / Cultural Technique” (p. 104), with Clemens Jahn: “Mediendenken / Media Thinking” (pp. 115–116), in: AnArchive – Eine minimale Enzyklopädie zur Archäologie und Variantologie der Künste und Medien / AnArchives – A Minimal Encyclopedia on Archaeology and Variantology of the Arts and Media, ed. Claudia Giannetti (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014).

Daniel Irrgang, “Diagrammatics as a Mode between Gedankenexperiment and Thinking Medium,” in: How To Do Things With Pictures. Skill, Practice, Performance. Visual Learning Vol. 3, ed. András Benedek and Kristóf Nyíri (Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 149–164.

Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn, “Chronotopoi der Variantologie,” diagrammatic work with introduction text in: Variantologie. Zur Tiefenzeit der Beziehungen zwischen den Künsten, Technologien und Wissenschaften, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus, in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2013), pp. 473–477.

Daniel Irrgang, “Social Media before Social Media. Kollaborative Netzwerke im Internet und darüber hinaus,” in: Forum zur Genealogie des Mediendenkens Vol. 1, ed. Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn (Berlin: UdK-Verlag, 2013), pp. 135–142.

Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski, “Variantology, Techno-Ecologies and a Plea for an Applied Cultura Experimentalis,” in: Techno-Ecologies. Acoustic Space Vol. 11, ed. Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits (Riga: rixc, 2013), pp. 81–93.

Daniel Irrgang, “Die Umkehrung des Vergänglichen: To rise like a phoenix,“ in: To rise like a phoenix. Künstlerische Intervention, ed. Gerhard Bär (Berlin: Project documentation for Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Center for International Migration and Development, 2011), n. p.

Edited Volumes (Books, Periodicals)

Interface Critique 4: Diagrammatic Operations (2023), journal, ed. Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné and Daniel Irrgang – guest editor of this issue: Christoph Ernst.

Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty – Interventions for Open Digital Futures, ed. Bianca Herlo and Daniel Irrgang (Berlin: Weizenbaum Institute, 2023).

Olia Lialina, Turing Complete User. Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction. An Interface Critique book, ed. Florian Hadler and Daniel Irrgang (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library/arthistoricum.net, 2021).

Practicing Sovereignty. Digital Involvement in Times of Crises, ed. Bianca Herlo, Daniel Irrgang, Gesche Joost and Andreas Unteidig (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021).

Interface Critique 3: Depth of Field (2021), journal, ed. Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné and Daniel Irrgang.

Between January 2020 and April 2021: web editor of the research section of the ZKM | Karlsruhe “Critical Zones” exhibition website.

Potential Spaces. Research and Education in Art and Design / Möglichkeitsräume. Forschung und Lehre in Kunst und Design (bilingual publication), ed. Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski (Karlsruhe: ZKM books, 2019).

Interface Critique 2: Navigating the Human (2019), journal, ed. Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné and Daniel Irrgang.

The Political Economy of Data. On Psychometrics, Deep Learning and Net Populism, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski (Karlsruhe: ZKM books, 2018).

Interface Critique 1: Beyond UX (2018), journal, ed. Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné and Daniel Irrgang.

Erkundungen im anthropologischen Viereck. Lektionen im Kontext des Flusserschen Denkens, ed. Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018).

Eckhard Fürlus, “Imperitis pro lectione pictura est.” Glas – Bild – Malerei – Licht. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018).

Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens, ed. Daniel Irrgang and Florian Hadler (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2017).

Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste, exhibition catalogue, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Daniel Irrgang for the Academy of Arts, Berlin (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2015).

Flusseriana. An Intellectual Toolbox, tri-lingual: English, German, Portuguese, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel, and Daniel Irrgang (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015). – review by Alexander R. Galloway

Graham Harman, Die Rache der Oberfläche: Heidegger, McLuhan, Greenberg. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015).

Forum zur Genealogie des MedienDenkensVol. 2, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Konstantin Daniel Haensch and Inger Neick. Proceedings of the Forum on the Genealogy of MediaThinking in summer semester 2013 (Berlin: UdK-Verlag, 2014).

Thomas Düllo, Abwegen und Abschweifen. Versuch über die narrative Drift. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014).

Alan Shapiro, Die Software der Zukunft, oder: Das Modell geht der Realität voraus. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014).

Knut Ebeling, »quote/unquote«. Kleine Archäologie der Operatoren. International Flusser Lectures, ed. Daniel Irrgang, Marcel René Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013).

Variantologie. Zur Tiefenzeit der Beziehungen zwischen den Künsten, Technologien und Wissenschaften, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2013).

Forum zur Genealogie des Mediendenkens Vol. 1. Proceedings of the Forum on the Genealogy of MediaThinking in winter semester 2012/13, ed. Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn (Berlin: UdK-Verlag, 2013).

Variantology 5. Neapolitan Affairs. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011).

Variantology 4. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Franziska Latell (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010). 

Interviews (by/with)

“WannaScry. An Interview with Danja Vasiliev,” in: Practicing Sovereignty. Digital Involvement in Times of Crises, ed. Bianca Herlo, Daniel Irrgang, Gesche Joost and Andreas Unteidig (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021), pp. 321–337.

“‘Exposing systems of power and injustice.’ An interview with the Disruption Network Lab,” with Bianca Herlo, for the Weizenbaum Institute research group “Inequality and digital sovereignty”, December 12, 2020.

“The ephemerality of contact tracing apps” – A talk by Claudio Guarnieri, for the Weizenbaum Institute research group “Inequality and digital sovereignty”, May 14, 2020.

“Cynicism by design” – An interview with Joana Moll, for the Weizenbaum Institute research group “Inequality and digital sovereignty”, May 12, 2020.

“Vilém Flusser – Die Gefahren digitaler Kommunikation,” radio feature, SWR 2 (public broadcasting station for southwest of Germany), January 4, 2019; includes interviews with Oliver Bidlo, Rainer Guldin, Daniel Irrgang, Rainer Leschke, and Marcel René Marburger.

“Vorläufer des E-Books: Die Schrift auf Diskette,” Daniel Irrgang interviewing Andreas Müller-Pohle, in: Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste, exhibition catalogue ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Daniel Irrgang for the Academy of Arts, Berlin (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2015), p. 96.

Translations

George Saliba: „Verschwommene Ränder. An der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Kultur und Kunst,“ in: Variantologie. Zur Tiefenzeit der Beziehungen zwischen den Künsten, Technologien und Wissenschaften, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Clemens Jahn (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2013), pp. 294–314.