Academic Research

During this internship, you will have two options (combining is possible):

Option A) In-depth reading and discussion on topics such as commoning, media theory, computing, German media studies, critical theory, poststructuralist philosophy, Deleuze/Guattari, New and Old Materialism, Science and Technology Studies, Marxism, Feminism, etc.
For instance: How computation became planetary, what is wrong with this, and how it still could benefit all inhabitants of Earth. You will go through a list of essential readings (in English or even German), discuss, visualize, map, and read more literature. This is adaptive to your reading pace and will result in a poster presentation or more.

Option B) Critical coding: You will delve into the world of agent-based models, which are frequently utilized within orthodox economics, where they are closely linked to unquestioned assumptions such as the belief that life and civilized liberal society ultimately revolve around self-interested individuals engaging in constant conflicts and that only a free market can effectively coordinate economics. Here, you aim to speak and argue against these assumptions and to code and program small, rather experimental, yet operative models, which simulate in small micro-worlds alternative theories of commoning and/or responsible social-ecological systems.

Advanced undergraduate students (from second year) 
Master's students 
Ph.D. students