Can you explain a little what do you expect from this project?
I expect to gain from it a rigorous cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer, new insights into contemporary digital culture, an active involvement in key social and political discussions today. I also hope to benefit from professional contacts and new academic knowledge, as well as from the establishment of lasting network contacts. I am especially interested in dialogues with the ‘hard science’ colleagues in the project.
Which cross disciplinary combinations do you expect to profit particularly from the topological approach?

I am keen to develop a dialogue with neural sciences on the structures of consciousness and selfhood. I am sure this project will provide us with new analytical tools by which the ongoing scientific developments and the cultural phenomena they engender can be accounted for or at least framed. However the application of normative analyses, hermeneutical skills and other conceptual tools remains crucial to my philosophical frame of thought.
If change is one main feature of culture today, why is this approach helpful in conceptualizing or understanding cultural change?
It is helpful quantitatively because it documents the extent and speed of the on-going changes and transformations. It also matters qualitatively because it works cross-disciplinarily analytical tools for understanding them.
Can everything in culture really be measured in numbers?
Almost everything in culture can be measured in numbers, except the structures that matter most: subjectivity, ethnical consciousness, political involvement, the desire to work for lasting changes, the societal construction of hope etc. Political affect works by a geometry of passions that is not numerical.
One idea of the approach is that it avoids normative judgements. Is that not risky, or might it lead to a "neutral" and ultimately empty understanding of culture?
It is risky. I completely object to the assumption of, or aspiration to, neutrality in any possible sense of the term. There is no such thing as a neutral statement or value-free approach to any system. The key term by which I want to work  is complexity, not neutrality.