Publications

Publications

Monographs & Edited Journals/ Books (Selection)

  • (2025) Cybernetics and Critique. A Theory of Digital Governance. Berlin: Suhrkamp, forthcoming.

  • (with Critical Data Lab and Council for Digital Ecology) (2025) Doing Digital Utopia. Guide for a sustainable digitality, forthcoming.

  • (with Sebastian Berg, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Tobias Matzner and Felix Maschewski, eds.) (2022) Algorithms of Alterity - Alterity of Algorithms. Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 15(2), Special Issue.

  • (with Janosik Herder and Felix Maschewski, eds.) (2021) Futures of Critique: Theorising Governmentality and Power in the Digital Age. Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 14(2), Special Issue.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019) The society of wearables. Digital seduction and social control. Berlin: nicolai Publishing & Intelligence.

  • (with engagée) (2019) Villes Radicales. Du droit à la ville à la démocratie radicale. Paris: Eterotopia France.

  • (with engagée) (2017) Machine-becoming. Engagée. political-philosophical interventions #5. Vienna: engagée.

Journal Articles (*indicates peer-review)

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2025) "Politics of Dark Enlightenment. Dark MAGA and the right-wing authoritarian turn in Silicon Valley", Mittelweg 36, June/ July 2025, forthcoming.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2025) "Delete as a government programme. Musk's campaign against the "woke mind virus", Leaves for German and International Politics 5 (2025), S. 99-106.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2024) "The platform-economic transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited', Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(1), pp. 178-199.*

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Pandemic Solutionism: The Power of Big Tech during the COVID-Crisis", Digital Culture & Society, 8(1), Special Issue Coding Covid-19, pp. 43-65*.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2022) "Hacia una teoría crítica de la digitalidad. Günther Anders en la era del capitalismo de plataformas y las tecnocracias inteligentes", Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica, No. 14, pp. 322-346*.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2022) "Surveillance Capitalist Biopolitics. Big Tech and the Government of Bodies", Journal for Political Science, 32(2), pp. 429-455*.

  • (with Felix Maschewski, Tobias Matzner, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sebastian Berg) (2022) "Algorithmen der Alterität - Alterität der Algorithmen. Reflections on a complex relationship", Behemoth, Special Issue, 15(2), pp. 1-15.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2021) "The Platform Economic Infrastructure Change of the Public Sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited", in: Seeliger, Martin/ Sevignani, Sebastian (eds.), Leviathan Special Volume: A New Structural Change of the Public Sphere? pp. 320-341.*

  • (with Felix Maschewski and Janosik Herder) (2021) "Introduction: Futures of Critique in the digital Age ", Behemoth, Special Issue, 14(2), pp. 1-5.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019) "The Obsolescence of Politics: Rereading Günther Anders's critique of cybernetic governance and integral power in a digital age," Thesis Eleven, 153(1), Special Issue on Günther Anders, pp. 75-93.*

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019): "We have to coordinate the Flow" or: The social physics of the impulse. On the control and regulation thinking of neo-cybernetic policies", Yearbook Philosophy of Technology 2019, Control and Regulation, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, pp. 39-54.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2018) "Passivity in the Costume of Activity": On Günther Anders' Critique of Cybernetic Politics in the Age of the "Total Machine", in: Behemoth. A Journal of Civilisation 11(1), (special issue on Günther Anders, ed. Christian Dries), pp. 8-25.

  • (2018) "Beckett, Adorno and the Hope for Nothingness as Something: Meditations on Theology in the Age of its Impossibility," Critical Research on Religion 6(1), pp. 35-53.*

  • (2015) "Fighting for the Other's Rights first--A Levinasian Reading of Occupy Gezi's Standing Protest", Culture, Theory & Critique 57(3), pp. 313-337*.

  • (2015) "Normalised Exceptions and Totalized Potentials--Violence, Sovereignty and War in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes and Giorgio Agamben," Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie 14(4), Special Issue: State of War: Human Condition and Social Orders, pp. 34-85.

  • (2014) "Art after Auschwitz: Responding to an Infinite Demand. Gustav Metzger's Works as Responses to Theodor W. Adorno's 'New Categorical Imperative'", Cultural Politics 10(3), pp. 300-319*.

  • (2014) "Jeremy Bentham's 'The Panopticon' and David Lyon/ Zygmunt Bauman's 'Data. Drones. Discipline'," Journal for Philosophical Literature, 2 (1), pp. 82-101.

Book Chapters

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2024) "Künstliche Intelligenz", in: Bröckling, Ulrich, Lemke, Thomas and Krasmann, Susanne: Glossary of the Present 2.0, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 221-232.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2024) "Algorithmus", in: Bröckling, Ulrich, Lemke, Thomas and Krasmann, Susanne: Glossary of the Present 2.0, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 46-57.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Jenseits immersiver Demokratie: digitalkapitalistische und soziopolitische Dimensionen des Metaverse", in: Hans Steege et al. (eds.), Legal Handbook Metaverse, Baden-Baden:Nomos, pp. 71-82.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Post it or perish - Wissenschaftler:innen als Influencer", Yearbook Philosophy of Technology 2023, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 259-264.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Die (Un-)Sichtbarkeitsregime sozialer Medien. Notes on the platform-economic infrastructural change of the public sphere", In: Art Doc Archive (eds.), Reclaim your Archive! https://reclaim.hypotheses.org/611

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Surveillance-capitalist biopolitics: Big Tech and the Governing of Bodies", in: Callu, Agnes (ed.), Images et architectures mathématiques de la seduction, Paris: Le Bord de l'eau, pp. 187-224.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2023) "Plattformökonomische Öffentlichkeiten und ihr Umwelt-Werden: On the cybernetic condition of social metamedia" in Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, Sebastian Sevignani (eds.): Digital Capitalism. A Reader, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 364- 383.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2022) "Self-Tracking and Nudging in Digital Capitalism", in: Oliver Schlaudt et al. eds.), Indicators in decision-making processes, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 137-147.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2022) "Big Tech and the Smartification of Agriculture: A Critical Perspective", in: The State of Big Tech (IT for Change (eds.)), projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-tech-and-the-smartification-of-agriculture-a-critical-perspective/.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2022) "Zur Normalisierung der Selbstvermessung im digitalen Kapitalismus", Publication series of the Humanist Academy Brandenburg, pp. 51-69.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2021) "Smarte Optimierung im digitalen Kontrollregime: Vom quantified self zum quantified collective", in: Thomas Hauser et al. (eds.), From citizen to consumer, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 140-153.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2021) "Die Kybernetisierung des Politischen. Between Science Fiction and Science Fact", in: Sabine Nuss/ Timo Daum (eds.), The Invisible Hand of the Plan, Berlin: Dietz, pp. 215-230.

  • (with the research group "Zukunftsfähige Digitalisierung" (Futur Zwei) (2021)): "Wie wir digitale Infrastrukturen für alle aufbauen können", in: Digital Civil Society (eds.): Hitchhiking through the digital future. Visions for a just, sustainable and social digitalisation, pp. 52-54.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2021) "The more you drive the more you get - Imagined futures in the as-if-not", in: LWL Münster (ed.) Nutrified. Thinking society without growth. Thinking Society without Growth (exhibition catalogue), Berlin: Distanz, pp. 74-77. (English translation pp. 159-162).

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2020) "Which technology? On the Unfixedness of Man in the Age of Digital Profiling," in: Recki, Birgit (ed.): Welche Technik?, [Essays of the Essay Prize of the Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover], Dresden: Text & Dialogue, pp. 57-78.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2020) "Wearable Control. The Apple Watch as cybernetic machine and black box of algorithmic governmentality," in: Vater, Christian et al: Black Boxes. Sealing Contexts and Attempts at Opening. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 115-138.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2020) "Res Publica Ex Machina: On Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics," in: Miriam Rasch (ed.), Let's Get Physical. A Sample of Institute of Network Cultures Longforms, Amsterdam: INC, pp. 194-209.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019) "Designing Freedom: On (post-)industrial governmentality and its cybernetic foundations," in: Schaupp, S. (et al). (eds.) Digital Industries. Between Emancipation and Domination. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 81-110.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019) "Network effects. On Facebook as a cybernetic machine and the disappearance of the subject," in: Breljak, Anja, Mühlhoff, Rainer and Slaby, Jan: Affekt Macht Netz. Towards a Social Theory of the Digital Society, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 29-54.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2019) "New Economy," in: Vogl, Joseph; Wolf, Burkhardt (eds), Literature and Knowledge. Approaches - Models - Analyses. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 221-223.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2018) "On Disappearances. Jean Baudrillard and the Poetics of digital Machines," in: Karambeigi, P. (et al.) (eds.): En plein Air. Ethnographies of the Digital. Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 20-24.

  • (2018) "Attempting to understand the end of the endgame. Adorno's Beckett Reading and its Theological Implications" in: Braunstein, Dirk/ Jurewicz, Grazyna/ Martins, Ansgar, The glow of light that falls into prison itself. Religion, Metaphysics, Critical Theory. Berlin: Neofelis, pp. 141-160.

Shorter Academic Contributions, Essays and Public Writing (Selection)

Review Articles

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2020) "Louise Amoore: Cloud Ethics", in: Behemoth. Special Issue Futures of Critique in the Digital Age, pp. 88-94.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2020) "Technology as Metaphor. On James Bridles' "The New Dark Age," Yearbook for Philosophy of Technology 2020. Autonomy and the Uncanny, pp. 213-220.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2017) "The essay as a form of digital waste disposal: Roberto Simanowski presents an alternative abc of new media", in: literaturkritik.de, No. 5, 2017, available at: http://literaturkritik.de/simanowski-abfall-essay-als-form-digitaler-abfallentsorgung-roberto-simanowski-legt-ein-differenziertes-abc-neuen-medien-vor,23341.html.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2017) "Das regulierte Selbst. Review of: Thomas Steinfeld, 'I want, I can. Modernity and self-optimisation,' in: literaturkritik.de , No. 2, 2017 , pp. 341-346, available at: http://literaturkritik.de/steinfeld-ich-will-ich-kann-das-regulierte-selbst,22963.html.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2016) 'Plunged into nothingness. Sven Hillenkamp's contemporary diagnosis 'Negative Modernity' explores the dark sides of social freedom structures," in: literaturkritik.de, No. 11, 2016, pp. 363-367, available at: literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php.

  • (2016) "Thinking the exception as a founding act. On Sophie Wahnich's "Freedom or Death. On Terror and Terrorism," in: engagée-political-philosophical-interventions. #4 Violence, pp. 16-19.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2016) "Review of: Robert Feustel, 'The Art of Displacement. Deconstruction for Beginners'," in: Der blaue Reiter, Journal for Philosophy, No. 37, pp. 107-108. Hanover: Der Blaue Reiter.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2015) "Double review of: Nils Oermann, 'Business Ethics. Vom freien Markt zur Share Economy' and B. Priddat/ W. Enkelmann (eds.), 'What is? Wirtschaftsphilosophische Betrachtungen'," in: Der blaue Reiter, Journal für Philosophie. No. 36, pp. 108-109. Hanover: Der Blaue Reiter.

  • (2015) "Review of: Walter Benjamin, 'Radio Benjamin'," in: Invisible Culture, Vol. 22. An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, available at: ivc.lib.rochester.edu/radio-benjamin/

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2015) "Review of: Vittorio Hösle - A Short History of German Philosophy." In: Der blaue Reiter. Journal for Philosophy. No. 35, p. 107. Hanover: Der Blaue Reiter.

  • (2014) "Review of Jeremy Bentham's 'The Panopticon' and David Lyon/ Zygmunt Bauman's 'Data. Drones. Discipline'," in: Journal of Philosophical Literature, 2 (1), pp. 82-101, available at: http://zfphl.de/index.php/zfphl/article/view/33/73.

  • (with Felix Maschewski) (2013) "Von Monstern und schwankenden Gestalten. Manifestations of contemporary criticism of capitalism. Collective review of Sandel, Schirrmacher, Skidelsky & Skidelsky and Welzer," in: POP. Culture & Critique. Online, pp. 1-11, available at: www.pop-zeitschrift.de/2013/06/11/von-monstern-und-schwankenden-gestalten-erscheinungsformen-zeitgenossischer-kapitalismuskritik-sammelrezension-zu-buchern-frank-schirrmachers-robert-und-edward-skidelskys-michael-sandels-u/.

Translations

  • Frederike Kaltheuner; Nele Obermüller (2018), DataJustice. Berlin: Nicolai. (translated from English)
  • Giorgio Agamben, "From the state of control to a practice of destituent power (potenza destituente)," engagée. Political-Philosophical Interventions, No. 4., pp. 24-30 (translated from English)
  • Geert Lovink, "The price of net freedom," engagée. Political-Philosophical Interventions, No. 5, pp. 32-33. (translated from English)
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