Keep Adding. On Kill Lists, Drone Warfare and the Politics of Databases

I am happy to announce that my paper “Keep Adding. On Kill Lists, Drone Warfare and the Politics of Databases” in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, first published on December 30 http://epd.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/12/30/0263775815623537.full.pdf+html appeared….

Game Changer? On the Epistemology, Ontology, and Politics of Drones

Yesterday our open access issue of the ‘Behemoth – A Journal on Civilization’ on Game Changer? On the Epistemology, Ontology, and Politics of Drones went online with contributions by Armin Krishnan, Sara Brady, Sabine Selchow,…

Blackbox, Baukasten, Biomarker: Körperkonzepte in der Kontrollgesellschaft

Talk at lecture series ‘Verkörperung und Materialisierung’ of post graduate programme “Automatismen” of Universität Paderborn. 6.15 pm | 15th December 2015 Universität Paderborn Room E2.339 Warburger Str. 100 33098 Paderborn Information at Universität Paderborn |…

Funding of our DFG network on ‘Affect- and PsychoTechnology Studies – Emergent techniques of affective and emotional (self-)control’ in cooperation with Prof. Marie-Luise Angerer (Potsdam), Dr. Bernd Bösel, Dr. Serjoscha Wiemer and many more

Living in the Age of Drones. Über Technik als Weltzugang und (Bio-)Politik

Talk at lecture series ‚Geschlecht in den Natur-, Technik- und Ingenieurwissenschaften’ of post graduate programme “Leicht, effizient, mobil” of Universität Paderborn 6 pm | 28th Ocotber 2015 Universität Paderborn Room L2.202 Warburger Str. 100 33098…

Visiting professorship, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, August – September 2015

Happy to be back in Twente and working with my collegues and students in the fields of philosophy and history of science!

Call for Papers: Technosecurity Cultures

Science as Culture (SaC) special issue: call for papers Guest Editors: Jutta Weber and Katrin M. Kämpf ‘Security’ has gained a central place in contemporary societies preoccupied with dangers to their future. Policymakers, researchers and…

Talk at ‘Data Traces: Big Data in the Context of Culture & Society’

‚a certain anticipatory readiness about the world‘. Big Data als (Selbst-)Überwachung 16:00 Uhr | 3. Juli 2015 Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) Academy of Art and Design FHNW Campus of the Arts Freilager-Platz…

The Fear of Not Being Watched: Big Data, Social Media Surveillance and Techno-Security

My Keynote for the symposium netz:regeln 2014 – responsibility in the digital society by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Bitcom can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5HzuEl0EY&list=PLQoUnPhwq7cwIR-3oUs3xxTJXEp5MkN7b&index=4 bzw respectively all articles at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQoUnPhwq7cwIR-3oUs3xxTJXEp5MkN7b

Workshop: SELF-DRIVING CARS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION. Department of Media Studies, University of Paderborn, 6th & 7th Nov 2014

  Public keynote by Prof. Dr. Ulf Mellström (Karlstadt, Sweden): The De-Anthropomorphisation of Men, Masculinity and Cars. Emancipatory Challenges and Theoretical Connections.