Comment by Estrid Sørensen, Mace Ojala & Ruth Dorothea Eggel In their analysis of capitalism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Marx & Engels 1848) identified the “reserve army of labour” as one of its key components. Capitalism is malfunctioning if society does not maintain a certain pool of…

Join us this Thursday, December 7th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the third RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Hannes Krämer and Dominik Gerst will present their work on "Die Zukunft Europas. Prospektive Grenzimaginationen bei Frontex". Please note that this lecture will be in German. The European…

Join us this Thursday, November 9th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Stefan Laser will present his work on "Stand-in. A Political Economy of Energy Reserves". This presentation delves into the intricate web of the contemporary energy landscape, examining the…

Join us this Thursday, October 12th, from 16-18 hrs (German time) for the first RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Nancy Mauro-Flude will present her work on "Thinking with Shells: Decolonising of Digital Culturescapes through Codework". This talk intends to intervene in contemporary digital culture and heritage practices…

Comment by Olga Galanova On June 22, Andrei Korbut presented a lecture on "Robotic Technoperformances: Interactional Indeterminacies in Public Appearances of Anthropomorphic Robots." The title of his presentation places the topic at the intersection of various STS-relevant research fields, such as AI, gender, the body, homocentrism, marketing, televisual…