Reposted by Sven OpitzVeit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · 01/02/2025In 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. 1153
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Looking 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/... 061
Reposted by Sven OpitzDaniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Check 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...h-net.org 044
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Über 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. 043
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Now 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...journals.sagepub.comPandemic Citizenship by Design: The German Contact Tracing App as a Political Infrastructure - Kevin Hall, Sven Opitz, Klaus Scheuermann, 2025During 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... 281
Reposted by Sven OpitzHeike Delitz @heikedelitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Just 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 - 1359
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Our 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...upittpress.orgEcologies 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... 0105
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!soziopolis.deTurbulenz: Zur Soziologie unruhiger VerhältnisseCall 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 064
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Our 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...link.springer.comSymbiotic engineering: insects, microbes, and the space of vector control - BioSocietiesThis 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 ... 042
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. 141
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! 041
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Great 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! 060
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 01/10/2024New 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/dVJcPrdcu.beSuspending life, controlling change: cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation 030
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 16/07/2024Looking forward to our panel on emergency epistemics at the #EASST4S2024 this afternoon: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...nomadit.co.ukP192: Epistemic emergencies / emergency epistemicsEmergencies are epistemically exceptional. Conditions of urgency and uncertainty demand actionable knowledge, pressuring scientific practices into an emergency mode. Focussing on the interplay between... 051
Reposted by Sven OpitzFrieder Vogelmann @frieder-vogelmann.net · 19/06/2024In 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 162
Reposted by Sven OpitzKäte 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... 132
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Great review from Franziska Zirker on Bishnupriya Ghosh’s „The Virus Touch“ somatosphere.net/book-review-...somatosphere.netBook Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus TouchThe website of Somatosphere 030