Lukáš Likavčan

Lukáš Likavčan is a philosopher. His research focuses on philosophy of science and technology and environmental philosophy. Likavčan is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) at NYU Shanghai. He is an author of Introduction to Comparative Planetology (2019) and a member of the More-than-Planet Working Group at Waag Futurelab. Previously, Likavčan held visiting research positions at Leiden University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Vienna University of Business and Economics; faculty positions at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design and Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU in Prague; curatorial positions at Display – Association for Research and Collective Practice and Fotograf Festival in Prague; and fellowships at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht. For more information, visit https://likavcan.com.
Select Publications
Light, metabolisms, elemental media: Theorizing human mediality in the Anthropocene. Visual Resources, special issue: Emotions of Late Anthropocene in Visual Arts, https://doi.org/10.1080/
01973762.2023.2253099 (forthcoming)(2023) Can Artificial Neural Networks Be Normative Models of Reason? Limits and Promises of Topological accounts of Orientation in Thinking (first author, second author: C. C. Olsson). Groß, R. – Jordan, R. (eds). KI-Realitäten. Transcript Verlag, 333-349. (2023)
Planetary diagrams. Towards an autographic theory of climate emergency (first author, second author: P. Heinicker). Dvořák, T. Parikka, J. (eds). Photography Off the Scale. Edinburgh University Press, 211-230. (2021)
Introduction to Comparative Planetology. Strelka Press. Translations to Spanish (2022), Czech (2023) & Italian (in progress). (2019)
Technology appropriation in a degrowing economy (first author, second author M. Scholz-Wäckerle). Journal of Cleaner Production 197(2), 1666-1675, https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro. . (2018)2016.12.134
Education
PhD, Environmental studies
Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic)The New Normal postgraduate program
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and DesignMgr, Philosophy
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic)Bc, Philosophy
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic)
Research Interests
- Philosophy of science and technology
- Environmental humanities
- Visual cultures
- Media theory
- Astronomy