In conversation with ... Arno Görgen

Abstract

Arno Görgen is a cultural historian. At the Bern University of the Arts, he is the co-lead of the SNSF Sinergia project "Confoederatio Ludens: Swiss History of Games, Play, and Game Design 1968–2000." His research focuses on health and medicine, the medicalization of digital games, systems theory and intellectual history, as well as the pop-cultural representation of illness. In this context, he published the anthology "Superspreader – Pop Culture and Media Discourses in the Face of the Pandemic" in 2024, together with Tobias Eichinger and Eugen Pfister. The anthology was released as part of the Medical Humanities series by transcript Verlag. Christoph Singer, head of the Research Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Innsbruck, and Arno Görgen discuss this book in the following interview.