Current Activities

CDC-Forum: Good Enough Software: A Book Overview

CDC-Forum: Undoing Networks (Book Presentation)

CDC-Forum: Rethinking the "Standard" in Digital Standards

CDC-Forum: Stabile Daten, immune Körper: Narrative der Epidemie

CDC-Forum: Urban Extractivism: Data, Value and Computing Infrastructures

CDC-Forum: Spatial Conditions of Work and Play: Intangibility Replaces Haptic Experience

CDC-Forum: Wie kann man die industrielle Praxis der KI medienethnographisch erforschen?

CDC Forum: The space between us: Networks after the pandemic

CDC Forum: "Remote is the new normal"? Digitale und prädigitale Geschichten der Heimarbeit

CDC Forum: Simulating pandemics: Welches Wissen liefern Simulationen?

CDC Forum: Lost in Translation. Chancen und Barrieren der digitalen Lehre

CDC Forum: Überwachungs- und Krisenkapitalismus

CDC Forum: Epidemiologie der Serie

CDC Forum: Abwesenheitspflicht. Der Status von “Präsenz” in Zeiten der Pandemie

CDC Forum: Universität im Ausnahmezustand: „Nicht-Semester“ oder Business as Usual

Abstract Subjects. How an I becomes an X in new data calculations

Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode der digitalen Kulturen

Kritik der Environmentalität. Über den neuen Vereinnahmungsapparat in digitalen Kulturen

Digital Age. Geschichtskonzepte digitaler Kulturen

Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien digitaler Kulturen

Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies

Workshop: Ephemera. Data & Drama

Trial and Lots of Error. Governance in Digital Cultures

Lecture: Virtual U: Simulating Higher Education

Algorithmisches Management in digitalen Kulturen

Software, Sociality, and Digital Cultures

DFG-Sym­po­si­um: Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften

Performing posthuman für digitale Kulturen. Episoden einer großangelegten Umstellung 1966 – 2019

Überwachen und Unterhalten. Organisation in digitalen Kulturen

Lecture: Im Paradis des Taktilen. Reale Experimentalsubjekte und spekulative Assistenzmedien

Lecture: Exhaustion of Copyright in Digital Objects

Exhibition: Filme des Windes

Workshop: Windkanäle. Wissen, Politik und Ästhetik bewegter Luft

Lec­tu­re: Platform Worlds

Einführung: Was sind digitale Kulturen?

Book Launch: In Search of Media

Lecture: The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Digitalisierung und die geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe des kalten Krieges

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Sha­ne Den­son “Images of Di­s­cor­re­la­ti­on”

Discussion ›Against Presentism‹

“Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”

WORK­SHOP “Dis­con­nec­tion”

WORK­SHOP “Ma­king Sen­se(s). Die Me­dia­lität der Nah­sin­ne”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Mar­tin Woe­s­ler “So­cie­ty 5.0 in Chi­na”

Michel Pêcheux – Ideologie und Diskurs

“Organizing creativity and attention”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ben Pe­ters “On the Pro­ver­bi­al Stu­pid His­to­ry of Smart Tech­no­lo­gy”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ga­brie­le Scha­ba­cher “Di­gi­tal Re­gimes of Con­trol. Bet­ween So­ci­al Uto­pia and Tech­ni­cal Failu­re”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ru­pert Ga­de­rer “Shits­torm. Agi­ta­ti­on, Si­mu­la­ti­on und Kampf in di­gi­ta­len Le­bens­wel­ten”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Gott­fried Schnödl “Na­tu­ra­li­sie­ren, On­to­lo­gi­sie­ren, Öko­lo­gi­sie­ren. Zu Na­tur­vor­stel­lun­gen in Tech­nik- und Me­di­en­theo­rie”

WORK­SHOP “Data and Dra­ma. Sce­nes from Eth­no­gra­phic Field Work”

Mind the Game! Computer Games driving AI and transforming Society

WORKSHOP. Batterien enthalten? Elektrochemische Zellen als Medien des digitalen Zeitalters

MECS LECTURE. Stefan Willer: Verhinderte Zukunft. Präventionsfantasien in der Gegenwartsliteratur

BOOK SERIES LAUNCH. In Search of Media

Eva Illouz: Parting Ways: Authenticity vs. Social Critique

MECS LECTURE. Patrick Vonderau: Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

WORKSHOP. Phänomene digitaler Kulturen

BOOK LAUNCH. Timon Beyes/Jörg Metelmann:The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture

WORKSHOP. The Arcanum in Digital Cultures

MECS LECTURE. Rudolf Seising: Anfänge von Digitalisierung und Algorithmisierung der Mustererkennung

BOOK LAUNCH. Andreas Bernard: Das Diktat des Hashtags

Conference // Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology

Summer School // Historiographies of Digital Cultures

Undergraduate Summer School // Sound and Vision in Digital Cultures

Workshop: Digital Labour and Migration

Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities

Booklaunch meson press

Oliver Nachtwey: Production Models of Digital Capitalism

CDC reading group with Fiorenzo Iuliano

Workshop – Politische Öffentlichkeit und Medientechnologien (in German)

Workshop – CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures

Chris Tedjasukmana: Zwischen Selbstentblößung und Selbstermächtigung

CDC reading group with Stefan Römer

CDC reading group with Dennis Tenen

CDC reading group with Megan Fernandes

Thomas Lemke: Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societie

Booklaunch – Clemens Apprich: "Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures"

Workshop – Post-X Politics

Booklaunch: Andreas Bernard: "Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes"

Mara Mills: Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression

Workshop – Sigrid Weigel: Grammatology of Images

Sigrid Weigel: On the Rise of Digital Stupidity

Workshop – Silicon Trolls. Net Cultures, Neo-Fascism and Technological Determinism

Book launch: "Performing the Digital" and "Nach der Revolution"

“Reparations” – Steve Kurtz

“Working on ENIAC: Design, Repair and Maintenance in the Early Digital” – Thomas Haigh

“The Politics and Aesthetics of Inventive Infrastructures of Repair” – Lara Houston

“The Ragpicker Meets the Composter: Maintenance, Repair and Transformation” – Kristina Lindström & Åsa Ståhl

“Repairing Futures: Anticipation, Participation and Speculation” – Laura Forlano

“Designing the Humanities” – Tara McPherson

Workshop “Designing the Self” – with Paula Bialski, Laura Hille, Andreas Bernard and others

“Designing Feminist Futures” – Kat Jungnickel

“Transforming Matter” – Felipe Fonseca

Hackademia: Ethnographic Project Presentation

Radical Engineering

From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek and the Astronomical Rise of Hacker Politics

Gagged and Doxxed

Concepts of/for Hacking, Leaking and Breaching

Historically informed ethnography: Contextualising hacker practices

Ecologies of Existence

Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics and the Labour of Circulation

Jennifer Gabrys: Program Earth

Tracing Bergson. Perspectives on Life and the Sciences

Reading Algorithms. Queer and Transgressive Encounters

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

Jason W. Moore in conversation with Erich Hörl: World-Ecology, General Ecology and Cyberneticization

Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition

Eva Illouz: Knowing way too much... Love, Therapy, Technology

Non-knowledge and digital cultures