Dr. Thomas Biebricher (Political Science) is working on a book-length manuscript entitled ‘Neoliberalisms- Neoliberalisations’, in which he aims to juxtapose the normative worlds of neoliberalism developed by various thinkers to the actual processes of neoliberalisation taking place in the United States and Germany.
Greta Wagner, M.A. (Sociology) is interested in the role that cognitive enhancement plays in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the workplace and the respective norms and expectations. Drawing on Foucauldian and psychoanalytical ideas she will also conduct interviews with ‘users’ in Germany and the United States.
Frieder Vogelmann, M.A. (Philosophy) examines the use of responsibility as a ‘technology’ of neoliberal government in the Foucauldian sense and how it manifests itself in various fields ranging from insurance mathematics to criminology.
Michael Walter, M.A. (Sociology) scrutinizes the campaigns of various German think tanks that try to publicize neoliberal ideas and, ostensibly, gain discursive hegemony in the public sphere. His is an empirical analysis that is theoretically informed by the work of Gramsci and Bourdieu.
