About Me
Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, and the Coordinator of the
4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology's Taskforce on Risk, Safety, and Security. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology. He is the author of
The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014),
Nihilism and Technology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and
Nihilism (MIT Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.
Expertise
Arts & Humanities
# Ethics Of Technology
# Facebook
# Georg W.F. Hegel
# Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
# Nihilism
# Phenomenology
# Postphenomenology
# Soldiers
Organisations
Publications
Recent
Gertz, N. (2022).
Nihilism and Violence from Plato to Arendt. In L. Aguilar de Sousa, & P. Stellino (Eds.),
Violence and Nihilism (pp. 7-23). De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210-003
Gertz, N. (2022).
Accommodating Ourselves to Death: COVID and the Threat of Technological Solutions to Human Crises.
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology,
26(1), 172-180.
https://doi.org/10.5840/techne202248154
Gertz, N. (2020).
Democratic Potentialities and Toxic Actualities: Feenberg, Ihde, Arendt, and the Internet.
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology,
24(1-2), 178-194.
https://doi.org/10.5840/techne2020214119
Gertz, N. (2020).
The Logic of Nihilism.
The Philosophers' Magazine, (88), 42-49.
https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm20208810
Gertz, N. (2019).
The Four Facebooks: Misinformation, manipulation, dependency, distraction.
New Atlantis, (58), 65-70.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-four-facebooks
Gertz, N.
, Verbeek, P-P.
, & Douglas, D. (2019).
Cyberwar and mediation theory.
Delphi,
2(2), 72-78.
https://doi.org/10.21552/delphi/2019/2/5
UT Research Information System
Google Scholar Link
Affiliated Study Programmes
Master
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses Academic Year 2021/2022
In the press
- New Zealand mosque attack: Can online hate speech be stopped?, Nolen Gertz, Tahir Nawaz, Raphael Bossong, and Adrian Finighan. Al Jazeera Inside Story, 16 March 2019.
- Is enough being done to stop misinformation online?, Nolen Gertz, Aria Thaker, Nisanth Sastry, and Elizabeth Puranam, Al Jazeera Inside Story, 9 March 2019.
- Netflix and Nil: Why being online makes us nihilists, James Poulos, The New Atlantis, Winter 2019.
- Do digital technologies make us more nihilistic?,Nolen Gertz and David van Overbeek, Voor de Ommekeer TV, Amsterdam, October 2018.
News on utwente.nl
- Drones: saviors or slaughterbots?, Rense Kuipers, U-Today, 14 September 2018.
- Meet the teacher: Nolen Gertz, Michaela Nesvarova, U-Today, 11 June 2018.
- 'Westworld' through the eyes of a scientist, Michaela Nesvarova, U-Today, 9 January 2018.
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
(building no. 10), room 4276
Hallenweg 17
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
4276
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands