Technical Existence

Max Bense (1910–1990) wrote works that theorize mathematics and the natural sciences, technics, aesthetics, semiotics, and cybernetics, whose analysis he helped inaugurate in Germany. He also authored experimental prose and poetry, and he edited a number of aesthetically avant-garde journals, including Augenblick and edition rot, often with his collaborator Elisabeth Walther. A seminal member of the faculty at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, Bense held a professorship for philosophy at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (later Universität Stuttgart) for the majority of his academic career.