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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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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...

13.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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.

11.11.2025 11:10 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Science, Technology and Society - Volume 30, Number 4 Table of contents for Science, Technology and Society, 30, 4

In the meantime the whole issue on communication media as crisis technologies has been published: journals.sagepub.com/toc/STS/curr...
We‘re glad to be part of it!

05.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The article analyzes the app as a technopolitical device. Drawing on interviews with app developers and public health offices it excavates the citizenship norms inscribed into the technology and highlights the frictions with manual contact tracing by public health authorities.

17.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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...

17.10.2025 06:07 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen!

23.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 -

08.06.2025 05:52 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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...

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...

23.05.2025 10:22 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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

@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!

27.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 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 ...

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...

25.02.2025 20:47 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed!

07.12.2024 07:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please add me! Thanks.

28.11.2024 11:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Velbrück Wissenschaft Soziologische Theorien des Rechts - [Download] Open-Access-Publikation in der Nomos eLibrary Soziologische Theorien des Rechts reflektieren das Recht als ein gesellschaftliches Phänomen. Sie analysier

Und zwar hier: www.velbrueck.de/Open-Access-...

28.11.2024 09:39 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"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.

28.11.2024 09:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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@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!

21.11.2024 10:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

New Order

17.11.2024 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

31.10.2024 11:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Suspending life, controlling change: cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation

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

01.10.2024 19:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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...

Looking forward to our panel on emergency epistemics at the #EASST4S2024 this afternoon: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

16.07.2024 11:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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 Opitz

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 Opitz

Poster 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.

Poster 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.

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

19.06.2024 06:46 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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✨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...

19.06.2024 07:17 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Book Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus Touch The website of Somatosphere

Great review from
Franziska Zirker on Bishnupriya Ghosh’s „The Virus Touch“
somatosphere.net/book-review-...

26.02.2024 12:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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