Academic Career
11.2022 – 10.2024
Research Associate, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Research Project Interact! New Forms of Social Interaction with Intelligent Systems
05.2020 – 09.2022
Postdoc Research Associate and Instructor, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany
Graduate School Media Anthropology (GRAMA)
07.2019 – 04.2020
Postdoc Visiting Scholar, Duke University, NC, USA
Program in Literature
04.2019 – 06.2019
Postdoc Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Feminist Studies Department & History of Consciousness Department
10.2017 – 03.2019
Postdoc Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
05.2016 – 03.2017
Research Associate and Instructor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Institute of Philosophy
12.2016
PhD, Philosophy
Joint program between Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests
- Hauntology and dispossession
- Technological underpinnings of fundamental concepts in political theory
- Race as technology
- Machine learning and statistical modeling
- Algorithmic rationality and its operations of prediction and categorization
- Normativization through technology
Publications (Selection)
Monograph
- Theorie des graphischen Feldes. Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020.
Journal Articles
- “‘Desired Behaviors’: Alignment and the Emergence of a Machine Learning Ethics.” Written with Alexander Campolo. (2024): 1–21 (under review at AI & Society).
- “From Enclosure to Foreclosure and Beyond: Opening AI’s Totalizing Logic.” (2024): 1–20 (under review at AI & Society).
- “From Rules to Examples. Machine Learning’s Type of Authority.” Written with Alexander Campolo. Big Data & Society 10, no. 2 (2023): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231188725.
- “‘One Unique You’: Affective Attachments and DNA-Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus.” Written with Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. Social Text 41, no. 1 (2023): 71–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174982.
- “Abolish! Against the Use of Risk Assessment Algorithms at Sentencing in the US Criminal Justice System.” Philosophy & Technology 34, no. 4 (2021): 1883–1904. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00491-2.
- “Moralisation de la vie nue—transhumanisme et biopolitique.” Revue des Sciences Humaines 341 (2021): 227–43. https://doi.org/10.4000/rsh.432.