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Sven Opitz

@svop.bsky.social

Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg

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Veit Braun@toteraltermann.bsky.social · 2y ago

In contemporary German sociology, there exists (or has existed) a school of scholars—mostly theorists—I am inclined to call "Young Latourians": thinkers who have sought to introduce a German audience to especially the late oevre of Bruno Latour.

Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Now a case of media archeology? Our article on the German contact tracing app just appeared in the journal Science, Technology and Society. It is part of the special issue „Tele-Crisis: Co-production of Crisis and Information and Communication Technology“ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Pandemic Citizenship by Design: The German Contact Tracing App as a Political Infrastructure - Kevin Hall, Sven Opitz, Klaus Scheuermann, 2025

During the COVID-19 pandemic, states around the world used smartphone apps to break chains of infection. Some functioned as a passport or enabled states to enfo...

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Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · last yr.

Our book „Ecologies of Disease Control“ is out! With contributions from @hannahlandecker.bsky.social, @engelmal.bsky.social, @ulibeisel.bsky.social, Ann Kelly, Clare Herrick, Susan Jones, Henning Füller and many more. upittpress.org/books/978082...

Ecologies of Disease Control - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822948483|Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective|Ecologies of Disease Control explores the relationship between ecological conceptions of epidemics and forms of infectious disease co...

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Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · last yr.

Our article on vector control methods that use microbes to fight viral diseases such as dengue is out now. @afolkers.bsky.social and I call the approach „symbiotic engineering“. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Symbiotic engineering: insects, microbes, and the space of vector control - BioSocieties

This article analyses vector control methods that use microbes to fight diseases, such as dengue, Zika, or West-Nile, by infecting mosquitoes with an endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia. These methods ...

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Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great discussions at the workshop Planet as Method I co-organized with Ute Tellmann (TU Darmstadt), Frederic Hanusch (JLU Gießen) and Clemens Finkelstein (JLU/Princeton). Thanks to all our guests!

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Frieder Vogelmann@frieder-vogelmann.net · 2y ago

In Freiburg finden nächste Woche zwei Veranstaltungen statt, zu denen ich herzlich einladen möchte: 1. Podiumsdiskussion „Was waren die Governmentality Studies?” mit Brigitte Bargetz, Ulrich Bröckling, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson und Sven Opitz @opitz_sven 25.6. 18-20 Uhr im Raum HS1098, KG I

Poster zur Podiumsdiskussion „Was waren die Governmentality Studies?” am 25.6.2024, 18-20 Uhr, im Raum HS1098, KG I mit Brigitte Bargetz, Ulrich Bröckling, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson und Sven OpitzPoster zum Vortrag „Racializing Terrorism“ von Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson am 26.6. 18-20 Uhr im Haus „Zur Lieben Hand“, Großer Saal Abstract: In her talk, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson explores the racialization of terrorism in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through changing discursive formations of race. She illuminates its function as a tool of social exclusion in the service of white supremacy and examines the continued relevance of contestations of terrorism as a means to preserve white rule and a practice of resistance against white supremacy.