Heute Abend halte ich in der Ringvorlesung “Algorithmen – Logik, Affekt, Kontrolle” einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Sicher durch Algorithmen?”
I’ve been awarded the Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award for my paper “Beyond data as representation: The performativity of Big Data in surveillance.”
Congratulations to Liisa A Mäkinen, the other awardee!
Ab heute vertrete ich die Professur für Medien, Algorithmen und Gesellschaft in Paderborn. Das wird ein spannendes Semester…
On Thursday, March 30, I’ll present my research on privacy at The New School Thursday Night Philosophy Workshop.
At CPDP last year we discussed whether there should be a right to offline alternatives to networked devices and services. My colleagues from the Forum Privacy and I have written a paper following the discussion which is contained in the volume Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures that just has been published.
Direkt nach meiner Rückkehr aus New York geht es gleich spannend weiter: Im kommenden Sommersemester vertrete ich die Professur für Algorithmen, Medien und Gesellschaft in Paderborn!
I’ve published a short piece that discusses the ethics and politics of algorithms beyond the concern for transparency and scrutiny, which currently is at the center of public debates. I add some points, which are discussed among researchers but that often get too little attention.
My new paper in Surveillance & Society has just been published. Here is the abstract:
The article discusses problems of representative views of data and elaborates a concept of the performativity of data. It shows how data used for surveillance contributes in creating suspect subjectivities. In particular, the article focuses on the inductive or explorative processing of data and on the decoupling of data generation and analysis that characterize current use of data for surveillance. It lines out several challenges this poses to established accounts of surveillance: David Lyon’s concept of surveillance as social sorting and Haggerty and Ericson’s “surveillant assemblage”. These problems are attributed to a representationalist view, which focuses on the veracity of data. This can lead to ignoring problematic consequences of surveillance procedures and the full scope of affected persons. Building on an idea by Rita Raley, an alternative account of data as performative is proposed. Using Judith Butler’s concept of “citationality,” this account shows how surveillance is entangled with the production of subjects through data in general. Surveillance is reformulated as a particular way in which subjects are produced that is parasitical to other forms of subjectivation.
For the coming 10 months I will be in New York as visiting scholar at the New School. I’m looking forward to a great time and lots of interesting academic collaborations.
Seit heute bin ich kooptiertes Mitglied des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs “Privatheit” in Passau und freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit!