Jun.Prof. Dr. Anna-Verena Nosthoff
Anna-Verena Nosthoff is junior professor of philosophy and digital ethics at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and Co-Director of the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin/ University of Oldenburg. Prior to her current position she held visiting, fellowship and teaching positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Department of Media & Communications), the University of Basel (Sociology Department), Princeton University (Politics Department), the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin (Politics Department). Anna is also a permanent affiliated researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
Anna has published on the power of Big Tech, the politics of social media, the platform economy, the rise of immersive tech, Silicon Valley ideologies and the digital transformation of the public sphere. She has also published several articles on critical theory, the philosophy of technology and the history of cybernetics/ critiques of cybernetics in international journals such as Cultural Politics, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Thesis Eleven, Culture, Theory & Critique, Digital Culture & Society, Critical Research on Religion, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Leviathan, Behemoth, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft and various edited volumes.
Anna is the author of „Die Gesellschaft der Wearables“ („The Society of Wearables“, co-authored with Felix Maschewski, a book on the expansion of wearable technologies and the rise of “Big Health Tech” (i.e., the increasing power of Big Tech in health care). Besides her academic work, she works as an essayist for, a.o., ZEIT (Online), Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Philosophie Magazin, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Die Republik, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Dissent, Jacobin, Public Seminar, Le Temps, Nueva Sociedad and Internazionale. Anna’s book “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” (Cybernetics and Critique. A Theory of Digital Governmentality) is under contract with Suhrkamp (forthcoming 2025).
She is the recipient of several awards, including the Surveillance-Studies-Prize 2021 (category: academic publications), the Prize for Philosophical Essays awarded by the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover in 2019, and the Goldsmiths Sociology Award for outstanding academic achievements. Anna’s journalistic work was also shortlisted for the Surveillance-Studies-Prize (category: journalistic publications) in 2021. As an expert Anna has spoken at the UN, the German Ethics Council, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, amongst others. She also held one of the Mosse Lectures at Humboldt University Berlin in 2023.
An overview of her research is available via Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and Researchgate.
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