{"id":15309,"date":"2024-09-30T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T09:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=15309"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:51:45","slug":"dr-katia-schwerzmann","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-katia-schwerzmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Katia Schwerzmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11.2022 \u2013 10.2024<br \/>\nResearch Associate, Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum, Germany<br \/>\n<em>Research Project Interact! New Forms of Social Interaction with Intelligent Systems<\/em><\/p>\n<p>05.2020 \u2013 09.2022<br \/>\nPostdoc Research Associate and Instructor, Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t Weimar, Germany<br \/>\n<em>Graduate School Media Anthropology (GRAMA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>07.2019 \u2013 04.2020<br \/>\nPostdoc Visiting Scholar, Duke University, NC, USA<br \/>\n<em>Program in Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>04.2019 \u2013 06.2019<br \/>\nPostdoc Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA<br \/>\n<em>Feminist Studies Department &amp; History of Consciousness Department<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10.2017 \u2013 03.2019<br \/>\nPostdoc Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA<br \/>\n<em>Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory <\/em><\/p>\n<p>05.2016 \u2013 03.2017<br \/>\nResearch Associate and Instructor, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany<br \/>\n<em>Institute of Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12.2016<br \/>\nPhD, Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>Joint program between Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany, and Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne, Switzerland<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hauntology and dispossession<\/li>\n<li>Technological underpinnings of fundamental concepts in political theory<\/li>\n<li>Race as technology<\/li>\n<li>Machine learning and statistical modeling<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic rationality and its operations of prediction and categorization<\/li>\n<li>Normativization through technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monograph<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Theorie des graphischen Feldes.<\/em> Z\u00fcrich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Journal Articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Desired Behaviors\u2019: Alignment and the Emergence of a Machine Learning Ethics.\u201d Written with Alexander Campolo. (2024): 1\u201321 (under review at<em> AI &amp; Society<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Enclosure to Foreclosure and Beyond: Opening AI\u2019s Totalizing Logic.\u201d (2024): 1\u201320 (under review at <em>AI &amp; Society<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Rules to Examples. Machine Learning\u2019s Type of Authority.\u201d Written with Alexander Campolo. <em>Big Data &amp; Society <\/em>10, no. 2 (2023): 1\u201313. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20539517231188725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20539517231188725<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018One Unique You\u2019: Affective Attachments and DNA-Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus.\u201d Written with Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. <em>Social Text<\/em> 41, no. 1 (2023): 71\u201397. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/01642472-10174982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/01642472-10174982<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAbolish! Against the Use of Risk Assessment Algorithms at Sentencing in the US Criminal Justice System.\u201d <em>Philosophy &amp; Technology <\/em>34, no. 4 (2021): 1883\u20131904. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13347-021-00491-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13347-021-00491-2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMoralisation de la vie nue\u2014transhumanisme et biopolitique.\u201d <em>Revue des Sciences Humaines <\/em>341 (2021): 227\u201343. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/rsh.432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/rsh.432<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katiaschwerzmann.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":17481,"template":"","person_category":[699,277],"class_list":["post-15309","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-cohort-9-en","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/15309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}