Poster announcing a book launch, showing the book „Collecting seeds, assembling worlds“ by Franziska von Verschuer, cover photo shows the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in a snowy mountainscape, the photo extends as negative on the poster.
Nächsten Mittwoch stelle ich mein Buch an der Goethe Uni vor! Ich freue mich auf das Gespräch mit der wunderbaren @vkluzik.bsky.social
Congratulations! I’m really looking forward to reading it.
Ready for holiday time after I submitted my book manuscript to @transcript-verlag.bsky.social today! 🥳 So excited that „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ will be published this year - and with such a fantastic cover (photo by Mari Tefre)
📣 FIXING FUTURES - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 📣
We are excited to announce that the exhibition ‘Fixing Futures - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ will take place at MGGU (Museum Giersch of the Goethe University) from 5 April to 31 August 2025! (1/5)
I did something different and worked on an exhibition (with lots of fantastic people!) for a change.
"Fixing Futures: Planetare Zukünfte zwischen Spekulationen und Kontrolle" will open on April 5 at Museum Giersch in Frankfurt. Come by if you are in town!
Im Philosophie-Podcast „Geister“ haben @frieder-vogelmann.net und ich über unseren Reader „Feministische Epistemologien“ @suhrkamp.de
gesprochen. 🎧💖
Z.B. hier: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...
Heute Abend in Frankfurt die Abschiedsvorlesung von Sarah Speck:
I’d like to take this opportunity to also highlight our book Biokapital, co-edited with @vkluzik.bsky.social and Thomas Lemke. It’s open access as well and explores the dynamics of biocapitalism in depth. You can download it here: www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
An image of the first page of the article, containing the abstract. The abstract reads as follows: "This article explores how advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering transform the relationship between life and death under contemporary biocapitalism. Discussing two cases of synthetically produced mosquitoes designed to combat vector-borne diseases by targeting their own species, the article contends that these organisms function not only as (lively) commodities but also as metabolically working bodies. These mosquitoes, as the article shows, engage in a specific form of labor, termed ‘metabolic death work,’ which aims at the eradication of fellow members of their species, thereby generating a unique form of value, introduced as ‘necrovalue.’ Complementing the notion of ‘biovalue,’ the concept of necrovalue highlights how death is reimagined as a site of value production in molecular biology and beyond. By applying these concepts to the analysis of the two cases of synthetically produced organisms, this article shows how death enters the realm of the political economy in novel ways as capital gains full control over the metabolic and reproductive capacities of engineered life forms."
I’m excited to share my new article, “Making death through producing life: Necrovalue and the political economy of death,” now available open access in BioSocieties: link.springer.com/article/10.1... It explores metabolic death work in animals and the valorization of death itself.
🌊Troubling waters – mehr-als-menschliche Meere‘ - Gespräch und Performances🌊
In der Mittwochsbar „Wetter Mi.“ im SCAPE° dreht sich am 4. Dezember um 18:30 Uhr alles um das Meer: Ein interdisziplinäres Ensemble erkundet, wie wir in Beziehung zum Meer und damit verbundenen Lebensformen stehen. (1/3)
Morgen!
Ich würde mich auch sehr darüber freuen. Herzlichen Dank für die Initiative!
I created a starter pack for people interested in all things social and sociological theory and theorizing. Let me know if I should add anyone.
go.bsky.app/ByNfpie
No worries—my paper will hopefully be available as an article sooner or later. Wishing you a great start at CETE-P.
Join me this Thursday at CETE-P in Prague for my talk, "Necrovalue and the Vital Politics of Death Itself". I’ll discuss how life is leveraged as a new source of capital accumulation within synthetic molecular biology.
#reproduction #metabolicwork #animallabortheoryofvalue #biocapitalism
Exciting opportunity for those curious about how (and whose) futures are made and unmade – from a broad STS perspective.
Our RTG "Fixing Futures" is offering 8 PhD positions (75% part-time, 4 years) at Goethe Univ. Two weeks left to apply!
Details below.
Questions? Reach out: info@fixingfutures.eu
I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
We’re thrilled to pre-announce 8 new doctoral researcher positions (4 years) in our DFG research training group "Fixing Futures" at Goethe University Frankfurt starting May 1, 2025. Stay tuned for more infos! fixingfutures.eu
#PhD #Research #FixingFutures #JoinUs
📢 We kindly invite you to our next public lecture on 'Climate Changed Futures: On Anticipatory Action in the Climate Emergency', offered by Prof. Ben Anderson on Tuesday, 2. July 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107. (1/4⤵️)
Poster of the symposium "Living techno-natures: biohybrid objects, life, and technology". Venue: Casino building, room 1.811, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 7 March 2024. Talks by Julia Rijssenbeek, Marco Tamborini, Josef Barla, Christoph Hubatschke, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Louisa Estadieu, Fiorella Battaglia, Steven Monserrate Gonzalez, Dominika Lisy, and Hannah Link.
Marco Tamborini and I are very excited to announce our symposium „Living techno-natures: biohybrid objects, life, and technology“ at Goethe University on March 7. With many wonderful talks. Keynote lecture: Henry Dicks (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) #biomimicry, #Philosophy, #technology, #STS
