Dr. Oliver Leistert

Oliver Leistert is interested in the proliferations of our algorithmic environments into ubiquitous power houses that reshape processes of subjectivation, sociality, collectivity and culture as much as norms, futurity and aspirations. He wrote his disseration on the surveillance of mobile devices and their use by social movements and activists and won the Surveillance and Society book award for that. He studied philosophy, computer science and German literature at Hamburg University. He has been a research fellow at the Central European University in Budapest and at Mecs, Institute for advanced study on media cultures of computer simulation, a DFG Kollegforschergruppe at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Currently he is the sole investigator in a DFG research project on blockchains.