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Sven Opitz

@svop.bsky.social
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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 · 01/02/2025
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.
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Looking forward to the workshop „Plural Knowledge Cultures in Times of Crisis“ at our department at University of Marburg with @anthrobite.bsky.social, Desirée Hetzel, Ruzana Liburkina, Arne Harms and @annaw.bsky.social. www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb03/ekw/...
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Check out Kristin Brig-Ortiz's review of Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz & Andrea Wiegeshoff's "Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Über 1000 Seiten zur Politischen Soziologie, ein neues Handbuch herausgegeben von Martin Endreß und Benjamin Rampp im @nomosverlag.bsky.social. Ich habe den Beitrag zu Ausnahmezustand/Notstand geschrieben.
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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...
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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 · 23/09/2025
Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen!
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Heike Delitz @heikedelitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Just published! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Wir haben unser Handbuch der soziologischen Theorien Hilmar Schäfer gewidmet. Vielen Dank allen Autorinnen und Autoren für ihre Beiträge -
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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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 · 27/03/2025
@wolffle.bsky.social und ich veranstalten auf dem kommenden DGS-Kongress eine Ad hoc-Gruppe zu Turbulenz. Der Call findet sich hier: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun... Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen!
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Turbulenz: Zur Soziologie unruhiger Verhältnisse
Call for Papers für eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem 42. Kongress der DGS vom 22. bis 26. September 2025 in Duisburg. Deadline: 30. April 2025
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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...
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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 · 28/11/2024
"Die Rechtsfabrik" ist eine von Bruno Latours interessantesten Arbeiten - und dennoch relativ wenig beachtet. Ich durfte einen Beitrag zu der Studie in dem Band "Soziologische Theorien des Rechts" (2024) schreiben, hg. von Alfons Bora und @andreakretschmann.bsky.social - open access abrufbar.
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
@tbonacker.bsky.social and I are organizing a workshop on atmospheric violence as part of @sfb138.bsky.social. A warm welcome to all of our speakers!
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
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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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
New article by Leon Wolff in BioSocieties on the biopolitics of cryopreservation: „cryopreservation is linked to an imaginary of ecological separation that implies the idea that biodiversity can ultimately be preserved without a habitat.“ rdcu.be/dVJcP
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Suspending life, controlling change: cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Looking forward to our panel on emergency epistemics at the #EASST4S2024 this afternoon: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
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P192: Epistemic emergencies / emergency epistemics
Emergencies are epistemically exceptional. Conditions of urgency and uncertainty demand actionable knowledge, pressuring scientific practices into an emergency mode. Focussing on the interplay between...
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Frieder Vogelmann @frieder-vogelmann.net · 19/06/2024
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.
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) @core-rwth.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
✨Lecture Series "Lifelikeness" Today @svop.bsky.social is giving a lecture on "Indoor Atmospheres: Comfort, Aerial Hygiene and the Microbiome of the Built Environment". You are cordially invited to drop by! Find out more: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evenin...
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Great review from Franziska Zirker on Bishnupriya Ghosh’s „The Virus Touch“ somatosphere.net/book-review-...
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Book Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus Touch
The website of Somatosphere
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