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149Pandemic solutionism: the power of big tech during the COVID-19 crisisDigital Culture and Society 8 (1): 43-65. 2023.In this article, we investigate how Big Tech companies have used the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to increase their social, political, infrastructural, and epistemic power. We focus on four companies that were outspoken in their efforts to combat the virus: Alphabet (also known as Google), Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA). During the crisis, these companies evolved as adaptive entities that responded to the state of emergency by promptly rolling out various technological solut…Read more
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93Jenseits immersiver Demokratie: digitalkapitalistische und soziopolitische Dimensionen des MetaverseIn Hans Steege (ed.), Metaverse Rechtshandbuch. pp. 71-82. 2023.
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62El desierto de lo virtualNueva Sociedad. 2023.Silicon Valley pretende ofrecer un mundo de «soluciones» tecnológicas a problemas sociales complejos. Atentas a la desconfianza social sobre esa posibilidad, algunas empresas apuestan ahora por el metaverso, una realidad virtual en la que todo es fantasía: incluso las soluciones que promueven.
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168The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisitedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 50 (1): 178-199. 2024.From a socio-theoretical and media-theoretical perspective, this article analyses exemplary practices and structural characteristics of contemporary digital political campaigning to illustrate a transformation of the public sphere through the platform economy. The article first examines Cambridge Analytica and reconstructs its operational procedure, which, far from involving exceptionally new digital campaign practices, turns out to be quite standard. It then evaluates the role of Facebook as an…Read more
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108Der Beitrag untersucht den plattformökonomischen Infrastrukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und damit die affektökonomischen Strukturmerkmale sozialer Medien. In diesem Rahmen analysieren die Autor:innen in medientechnischer Perspektive die Programmatik von News-feed-Algorithmen wie auch des User-Engagements von Facebook und Co. und damit einher-gehend eine „Infrastruktur der Affizierung“, die es proprietären Plattformen einerseits ermöglicht, in einer Kultur der Visualität große Datenmengen der Nut…Read more
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3Living by objectives: Self-Tracking und Nudging im digitalen KapitalismusIn Julia Mörtel, Alfred Nordmann & Oliver Schlaudt (eds.), Indikatoren in Entscheidungsprozessen: Stärken und strukturelle Schwächen, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 137-147. 2023.„Du hast ein besseres Ich in Dir”, versprach Apple 2018 und bewarb damit nicht nur seine hauseigene, rundum verbesserte Smartwatch. Der Konzern propagierte zugleich eine digitale Lebensform, die jede Bewegung und Regung sensorisch erfasst, die stets aktiver, gesünder und produktiver sein will – kurz: eine Lebensform, die Fortschritt und Freiheit an eine ständige Kontrolle mittels Indikatoren bindet. In ihrem Beitrag diskutieren Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski die Anziehungskräfte von S…Read more
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179Hacia una teoría crítica de la digitalidad. Günther Anders en la era del capitalismo de plataformas y las tecnocracias inteligentesConstelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica 14 (2022): 322-346. 2022.Towards a Critical Theory of Digitality: Günther Anders in the Age of Platform Capitalism and Smart Technocracies Diversos estudios teóricos sobre los medios de comunicación han caracterizado recientemente la cuarta revolución industrial como un proceso de tecnificación y cibernetización omniabarcante. En este contexto, este artículo pretende mos-trar el potencial pertinente y crítico de la obra magna de Günther Anders La obsolescencia del hombre frente al poder cada vez mayor de los dispositivo…Read more
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130Algorithmen der Alterität - Alterität der Algorithmen : Überlegungen zu einem komplexen VerhältnisBehemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 15 (2): 1-16. 2022.
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85New EconomyIn Joseph Vogl & Burkhardt Wolf (eds.), Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie, De Gruyter. pp. 221-223. 2020.
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99Hacia una teoría crítica de la digitalidad. Günther Anders en la era del capitalismo de plataformas y las tecnocracias inteligentesConstelaciones 14 (2022): 322-346. 2022.Towards a Critical Theory of Digitality: Günther Anders in the Age of Platform Capitalism and Smart Technocracies Diversos estudios teóricos sobre los medios de comunicación han caracterizado recientemente la cuarta revolución industrial como un proceso de tecnificación y cibernetización omniabarcante. En este contexto, este artículo pretende mos-trar el potencial pertinente y crítico de la obra magna de Günther Anders La obsolescencia del hombre frente al poder cada vez mayor de los dispositivo…Read more
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101New EconomyIn Joseph Vogl & Burkhardt Wolf (eds.), Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie, De Gruyter. pp. 221-223. 2020.
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Immer näher, immer besser, immer smarter: Die Apple Watch ist eigentlich ein GesundheitstoolNeue Zürcher Zeitung 12. 2020.
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175Big Tech and the Smartification of AgricultureHttps://Projects.Itforchange.Net/State-of-Big-Tech/Big-Tech-and-the-Smartification-of-Agriculture-a-Critical-Perspective/. 2022.The paper outlines critical aspects concerning the increasing use of big data in agriculture and farming. In particular, the aim is to shed light on the emerging dominance of the platform economy in the field of agriculture and food production. To analyze those power structures shaping this dynamic, we start with brief observations on the general relationship between digitization and agriculture and explain the platform economy, its general business model, and the proprietary forms of market pow…Read more
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15Following media-theoretical studies that have characterized digitization as a process of all-encompassing cybernetization, this paper will examine the timely and critical potential of Günther Anders’s oeuvre vis-à-vis the ever-increasing power of cybernetic devices and networks. Anders has witnessed and negotiated the process of cybernetization from its very beginning, having criticized its tendency to automate and expand, as well as its circular logic and ‘integral power’, including disruptive …Read more
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213Überwachungskapitalistische Biopolitik: Big Tech und die Regierung der KörperZeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft. forthcoming.The article introduces the concept of "surveillance-capitalist biopolitics" to problematize the recent expansion of "data extractivism" in health care and health research. As we show, this trend has accelerated during the ongoing Covid pandemic and points to a normalization and institutionalization of self-tracking practices, which, drawing on the "quantified self", points to the emergence of a "quantified collective". Referring to Foucault and Zuboff, and by analyzing key examples of the leadin…Read more
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184NetzwerkaffekteIn Anja Breljak, Rainer Mühlhoff & Jan Slaby (eds.), Affekt Macht Netz, Transcript. pp. 55-80. 2019.
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219Big Tech won't make health care any betterJacobin 25 (10): 1. 2021.Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in 2019 that his company’s greatest achievement will be “about health.” But the pandemic has shown that Big Tech’s involvement in health care is all about data collection.
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139Facebook löschen oder Facebook regulieren?Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung 1 (1): 2018. 2018.Anmerkungen zur aktuellen Aufregung um Cambridge Analytica & Co. (2018)
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Goethe University FrankfurtGraduate student
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Goldsmiths College, University of LondonRegular Faculty
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Vienna, Wien, Austria
Areas of Specialization
Political Theory |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Critical Theory |
Theodor W. Adorno |
Philosophy of Technology |