Wie der Eisberg den größten Bestandteil seines Wesens unter der Wasseroberfläche verbirgt, so bleibt auch das Wesentliche unseres Wissens, Handelns, Wahrnehmens und Interagierens meist verborgen. Die Ethnographie versucht solch implizite Bestandteile zu ...
From overabundance to engagement in scarcity
This morning, 8.30hrs, wandering through a pallette of coloured leaves, swishing sounds as the feet wipe dried leaves aside. The playground still empty. That's autumn 2020: a still life portrait, hanging in there like the swing. Unknowing about until whe ...
Care-taking & working in times of Corona
Doing analogue parenting while working online brings some challenges of a new kind. During the (first) lockdown phase juggling between working and parenting was most visible, with restricted child care measures, demands of home schooling/parenting and wo ...
Camus’ The Plague: societal and moral questions for dealing with Corona
Not too long ago, right after the second world war, Albert Camus wrote his well-known book The Plague (French: La Peste). There was never the right moment to pick it as a must-read classic, as if the scare and suffering are still resonating from the book ...
Digitalisierung in der Arbeitswelt
Nachdem wir in den letzten zwei Sitzungen die Rolle der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen thematisiert hatten, haben wir uns heute dem Lebensbereich 'Arbeitswelt' zugewidmet. Home-office, e-work, Industrialisierung 4.0 sind Anwendungskontexte der Digit ...
Roboter in Intensivstation
RoboArt Sander Maastricht Telemedizin in der Coronakrise ist als Instrument in der tagtäglichen Versorgung Praxis geworden. Laut Berliner Charité Intensivmediziner sei die Robotik ein maßgeblicher Beitrag zum Erfolg der Behandlung von Covid ...
Seminar: Digitalisierung, Big Data und Gesellschaftswandel
Für dieses Sommer Semester 2020 war es meine Aufgabe für den Lehrstuhl "Migration, Soziale Ungleichheit und Globalisierungsforschung" ein neues Seminar zu konzipieren. Noch vor Corona begann ich mit der Idee diesesmal meine bisherigen Seminare "Mensch-Te ...
Corona Masquerade in everyday life
One of my favorite questions by students is: "How do you see philosphy in everyday life?", which I like to answer with "When you were a child it was what kept you constantly asking 'What is this? Why is that so? Why are you doing what you are doing?', or ...
Online teaching in Corona times
It does not need Corona to realize that many of our forms of interaction had become digital. But what Corona added is that the threshold to use digital channels is lowered for those who already had the means. How did the readiness to use digital means sl ...