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Hannes Charen is an Associate Professor – CCE of Philosophy at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½. He is the Coordinator of the Critical and Visual Studies major and teaches classes on Existentialism, Weimar Film and Culture, Death and Dying, Philosophy through Film, Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Ethics. His work is grounded in existentialism, critical theory, literary and visual studies, philosophy of technology and death studies. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and an MA in Media Studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He recently published an article titled ‘Nihilism and the conservative revolution: from Play to Testament in Fritz Lang’s Weimar Mabuse films’ in Studies in European Cinema. He has a chapter on topographies of death in the forthcoming book Death and Dying Architectures to be published by Routledge in 2027. His monograph, On the Politics of Kinship explores relations of intimacy, vulnerability and loss as sites of generative kinship relations.

Ph.D. Philosophy, New School for Social Research,
M.A. Media Studies and Communication, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland,
B.A. Philosophy, University of North Carolina

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