Kasper Levin

Research

My research is situated at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and artistic practices, with a particular focus on the significance of art and aesthetic experiences for subjectivity, community, and mental health. I am especially interested in the role that art and aesthetics play in the pre-reflective and embodied dimensions of human consciousness, and in how such experiences can open up new forms of human existence and communal life.

In my work, I explore how art and aesthetic practices can contribute to human development and well-being in everyday, clinical, educational, and societal contexts. My research spans from studies of literary writing groups, creative workshops, and exhibition formats for psychiatric service users to investigations of the role of aesthetics in general and developmental psychological questions concerning consciousness and intersubjectivity.

Parallel to my research in aesthetics, I explore the phenomenology of money through an analysis of how the materiality of digital, decentralized monetary technologies constitute consciousness and the lifeworld. Through an analysis of money as a pre-reflective medium—structurally analogous to aesthetic practices—I examine how monetary infrastructures constitute transcendental conditions for subjectivity, temporality, and collective imaginary formations.