Meike Gleim has a PhD in philosophy. She is specialised in democracy theorie, human rights, European Studies, Gender Studies and arts based research. She has completed several research projects and taught at European Universities (Kunstakademie Münster, Università Piemonte Orientale « Amedeo Avogadro », Strate Collège Paris, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, University of Fulda). Her projects have been funded by the Marie Curie Fellowship (European Commission), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has been conducting artistic research projects, shown in international exhibitions (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fabra-i-Coats, Barcelona, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Secession, Vienna etc.) and produced performances and workshops. She is a member of the management committee of the Cost Action "Reappraising intellectual debates on civic rights and democracy". Her books include "Die Regierung der Demokratie" ("The government of democracy", Passagen 2009), "The meanings of Europe" (Routledge 2013) and "Was hätte Virginia Woolf dazu gesagt?" (What would Virginia Woolf had said about it?, Marta Press 2018), forthcoming "Atlas of Arcadia" (Verlag Walther König 2019). She is fluent in four languages (DE, EN, FR, IT).
Fake news is one the top debates in media and conferences at the moment. Brexit, Trump and social networks, just to name a few keywords of the debate, seem to inevitably lead to the question of fake news. ...
The presentation develops from a common ground between philosophy and business theory: the invention of new words. Okay, philosophers and business scholars do not invent the same words. While the business world has seen words like lean and agile management or holistic project management, recent philosophy came up with terms such as accelerationism and speculative realism. These words do not have anything in common and yet, the reason behind the invention of new words is the same. ...