Lilian KrothPostdoctoral Researcher
As a researcher in philosophies of nature and the history and philosophy of science, I study how the natural world is understood through philosophical concepts, scientific instruments, and aesthetic practices.
I am currently based as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg’s Philosophy Department. I contribute to the projects Aerial Spatial Revolution and Seeing like a Satellite (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). My current work engages with the longue durée of methods for understanding Earth and climate along the vertical axis and with contemporary philosophical perspectives on remote sensing technologies.Crucial for my research is the question and how concepts travel, shape methods, aesthetics, and ultimately intersecting ways of understanding. In the context of aesthetic practices, I particularly engage with the role of drawing as a way of thinking. Featuring in a broad range of work—from conceptual sketches in philosophical texts, to scientific visualisation and its own artistic medium—I use and study drawing as an epistemic device that both reflects and generates knowledge.