As a Berlin Funding for Graduates fellow Steffi Winkler is currently doing research at the Vilém Flusser Archive, UdK Berlin and at the Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Her doctoral thesis aims to explore the processes of transformation of communication structures with regard to new forms of weltanschauung, self-image and responsibility. For several years her research and teaching has been dedicated to the works of Hannah Arendt, Vilém Flusser and Marshall McLuhan.