In the following you will find a selection of my publications:
Articles about me and my work by others can be found here
Interviews
- „Architektur der Überwachung” in ARCH+ [German]
- “Volle Kontrolle” in Spiegel [German]
Articles
„Soziale Kontrolle 4.0? Chinas Social Credit
Systems” in Blättern für deutsche und internationale Politik. Translations:
- English „Social control 4.0? China’s Social Credit Systems” in Eurozine
- French „Contrôle social 4.0 ? Le système chinois de crédit social“ in Le Revue Nouvelle
- Norwegian „Sosial kontroll 4.0″ in Ny Tid
“Die Super-Schufa” 2019 in der Wochenzeitung des Bundestags “Das Parlament” [German]
“Digitales Überall” [Digital Everywhere] in Südlink [in German]
Book chapters
Social Credit, Security, and Freedom – book chapter in Oliver Everling‘s “Social Credit Rating Reputation und Vertrauen beurteilen” [“Social Credit Rating – Reputation and Trust”] anthology on China’s Social Credit systems. [German]
“Freiheit und „Smart“phone – Von der informationellen Selbstbestimmung zur elektronischen
Fußfessel” – In: “Uns das Grundgesetz aneignen!” von Roland Appel und der Radikaldemokratischen Stiftung e.V. [German]
On mass incidents in China and the government’s handling of it: „Kick it Like China – Riots, Action, and Repression” in Rowman and Littlefield International’s „Riots and Militant Occupations”
Abstract: Albeit having an authoritarian government and strictly controlled mass communication systems the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a place full of social unrest. Mostly unknown by the West social struggles happened in China long before and after the Tiananmen square protests 1989. The country is tremored by social confrontations of very different characteristics and the government is heavily experimenting in ways to keep it at least under a kind of control. In this approach it has been developed a unique set of techniques, which can be clearly related with COIN. Even if developed to keep control of occupied land, COIN has been conformed to be used in the interior as well.
Argumenting that the measures taken by the PRC’s government are part of a system of counterinsurgency this chapter takes a look at different forms of social unrest and riots on the one hand and on the state’s responses to them on the other. The paper shows how social unrest at home is treated with the same set of techniques that have been developed in dealing with insurrections in occupied countries, including in the analysis the relevance of the so called “new media” and the internet surveillance in general and to COIN in specific.
Conscious of the special situation of China being governed by a communist party and its relationship of mass movements, the author points out that it is not only western capitalist countries that are taking COIN to respond to riots and other unrest.
Following Chinas new „Social Scoring”-System the author comes to raise the question whether we can watch the world’s future in repression and counterinsurgency in China.
My Magistra thesis
„The External Harmonization of Interior Uprisings – ‚Harmonious Society‘ and ‚Mass Incidents‘ in China“ – on China’s „Harmonious Society“ Program:
While the number of mass incidents
in the People’s Republic of China is continuously rising (in 2014 an
average of 247 per day) the Communist Party of China proclaimed a
“Socialist Harmonious Society” 社会主义和谐社会 as a social goal. The
contradiction of a materialist-marxist party that does not call out for
communism, but a “Harmonious Society” that is based on traditional
Confucian principles led to this thesis. Are uprisings and riots reasons
for the ideological change of the party? Is the return of Confucius and
Mao both an attempt of legitimation and an ideological effort to get
the Chinese people on board again? How is this related to the massive
extension of special forces against the interior uprisings ? The
following research question was defined to analyze: Is the Socialist
Harmonious Society an attempt by the Communist Party to externally
harmonize social unrest and expressions of dissent? Starting with the
four central concepts of this academic field – “politics of reform and
opening up” 改革开放 , “socialism with Chinese characteristics” 中国特色 社会主义,
“mass incident” 群体性事件, and “counterinsurgency (COIN)”, S. Jäger’s
Critical Discourse Analysis was used to analyze key speeches of Hu
Jintao. Following this process the theoretic results were set in
contrast to the practical handling of protests of a social group with
very low social esteem: the migrant workers.