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Klanghöhle Großstadt, 2014

This article explores sound and cave concepts with regard to the noises of city scapes. It takes ... more This article explores sound and cave concepts with regard to the noises of city scapes. It takes Berlin as example and is an anthropological inquiry of silence and sound.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Berghahn Books, May 14, 2021

J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2018

transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2019

Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Das Bulletin, 2023

Computerspiele verweisen auf die Anziehungskraft paradoxer Konstellationen, in denen sich Widersp... more Computerspiele verweisen auf die Anziehungskraft paradoxer Konstellationen, in denen sich Widersprüche aufheben, weil sie zugleich zerstreuen und bündeln.

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 2022

This article explores the significance of an ethnographic trouvaille (a lucky discovery) in th... more This article explores the significance of an ethnographic trouvaille
(a lucky discovery) in the process of conducting and writing an ethnog-raphy. A serendipitous find of the missing grave stone of Elsie Masson in the Innsbruck cemetery prods the author to reflect the influence of Elsie Masson on Bronislaw Malinowski’s work. The posthumanist discussion on “lithic writing” is situated within current debates on how to write an ethnography in times of identity politics. The author supports the analysis by reflecting selected experiences from her own past research amongst writers and artists of Vienna (2009–2011). This partially autobiographical becoming as a cultural anthropologist interweaves thus selected key moments and field discoveries with current anthropo-logical debates. It does this to illustrate how an ethnographic experience turns into an anthropological insight. Ultimately, this essay sketches the posthuman conditions of the new writing culture at the intersection of different turns: the digital, the decolonial and the turn towards the diversity of identities.

„Laborious Playgrounds: Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age”. In: Glas, René; Lammes, Sibylle; de Lange, Michiel; Raessens, Jost; de Vries, Imar (Ed.): The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 232-248., 2019

In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new f... more In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens in cultural and societal issues. From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of the Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, and the rise of citizen science and ecological games, this book shows how play is a key theoretical, methodological, and practical principle for comprehending such new forms of civic engagement in a mediatized culture. The Playful Citizen explores how and through what media we are becoming more playful as citizens and how this manifests itself in our ways of doing, living, and thinking. We offer a pluralistic answer to such questions by bringing together scholars from different fields such as game and play studies, social sciences, and media and culture studies.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048535200-015/html

Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Die Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (ZEKW) zieht mit dieser Doppelnummer frei zugän... more Die Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (ZEKW) zieht mit dieser Doppelnummer frei zugänglich ins Internet um. Sie erscheint von nun an zweimal jährlich open access (kann aber weiter auch in gedruckter Form als Print on Demand bezogen werden). Dieser Transformationsprozess ist mehr als ein bloßer Medienwechsel: Er verändert grundlegend, was die Zeitschrift ist (vgl. dazu den Beitrag von Anne Dippel). Der Umstellung sind Überlegungen vorausgegangen, die unter anderem in einem maßgeblich von Matthias Harbeck, Anne Dippel und Gabriele Alex (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie) verfassten DFG-Antrag zur Open-Access-Transformation anthropologischer Zeitschriften mündeten. An ihm waren auch mehrere Verlage, Fachgesellschaften sowie die Universitätsbibliotheken aus Berlin und Tübingen beteiligt, die das neue Open Journal System (OJS) betreuen, über das die ZEKW künftig verwaltet und indiziert wird. Dieses Forum versucht, die zum Teil recht unterschiedlichen Argumente und Interessen rund um die Transformation der ZEKW in vier Beiträgen abzubilden, die von Marianne Dörr (Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen), Anne Dippel (Mitherausgeberin dieser Zeitschrift), Matthias Harbeck (Fachinformationsdienst) und Melanie Völker/Beate Plugge (Waxmann Verlag) stammen, also von Autor*innen, die am Open-Access-Antrag beteiligt waren und die spezifische Argumente ihrer Institutionen einbringen. Hinzu kommt ein Beitrag von Markus Speidel zu Open Access in Museen. Denn die Frage des offenen Publizierens-darauf weist die Tübinger Bibliothekarin Marianne Dörr einleitend hin-ist Teil einer grundsätzlichen Bewegung in Richtung einer Open Science, die viele Institutionen des Forschungs-, Informations-und Dokumentationsbetriebs (Universitäten, Museen, Bibliotheken, Archive) betrifft. Open Science verlangt eine grundlegende Transparenz von Wissenschaft, ihrer Texte, Daten und Methoden und will kommerzielle Daten-und Text-Monopole beenden. "Ohne eine Veränderung dieser Rahmenbedingungen", schreibt Dörr, "wird die Open-Access-Transformation nicht greifen-oder nur als neues Geschäftsmodell der alten kommerziellen Stakeholder weitergeführt werden." So gesehen ist die frei zugängliche ZEKW als Schritt in Richtung Open Science auch ein wissenschaftspolitisches Statement.

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022

Comparative Southeast European Studies

Bilder der Präzision, 2018

Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 2021

Klanghöhle Großstadt, 2014

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Berghahn Books, May 14, 2021

J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2018

transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2019

Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Das Bulletin, 2023

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 2022

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048535200-015/html

Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022

Comparative Southeast European Studies

Bilder der Präzision, 2018

Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 2021

This paper presents the first research results after nine month of studying knowledge production ... more This paper presents the first research results after nine month of studying knowledge production within High-Energy Physics, especially at CERN. The fieldwork aims to systematically explore work practices and modes of thinking within two big science collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN: the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) and the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid). More specifically, this paper explores how humans, detectors, data and algorithms form an entangled collaboration. The gigantic subterranean particle detectors, settled in an artificial cave of insight underneath the alps, produce knowledge as an interplay of human and non-human agencies. The reconstruction of knowledge about the early stages of our universe shows how modern cosmology about the nature of space and time is produced through a "historical-physical" reasoning. Materiality and virtuality are negotiated and the design transforms the nature of knowledge. The research is situated at the intersection of science and technology studies, media-theory and socio-cultural anthropology. As such, it provides an empirical basis for interpreting how cosmological certainties are created within the realm of the experimental uncertainty, between the scylla of randomness and the charybdis of failure, in its erratic quest to produce results. The research contributes to the understanding of how culturally embedded practices of materiality are shaping and transforming the forms of entanglement between humans, machines and things.

The work of a contemporary physicist is shaped and dominated by contingency of experimental const... more The work of a contemporary physicist is shaped and dominated by contingency of experimental constraints and on a more fundamental level on the constitution of nature. The encounter with contingency begins in the first lectures on mechanics where the students learn about measurement error and deviation. It later continues in experimental practice with the seemingly endless miniscule steps of creating plots and histograms out of experimentally collected data, rewriting codes of non-linear algorithms to train the data and choosing between several stochastic Monte Carlo generators in order to analyze the „contingent“ to detect truth. The events of data are happening in a space of experimental possibility, which changes its horizon through perspective and approach. Over binning and re-binning, smoothing and symmetrizing the inputs, blinding and unblinding data, checking and crosschecking the outcomes, to the last interpretative research steps that lead to either a published result or the published lack thereof, the work of physics is shaped and dominated by fluctuations of contingent choices and variables. Because high-energy physicists work in teams of researchers from all over the world, perhaps united in their mathematical knowledge but divided in languages and cultures, even intra-group communication is marked by errors in understanding and shows how scientific cosmology is always shaped by contingency.

Every experimentally gathered data entails uncertainty and constraints, and incorporates serendipity and randomness. In fact, every measurement in physics leads to uncertainty and is accompanied by a calculation of a standard deviation, which is represented by the Greek letter s (Sigma). In quantum mechanics, this uncertainty is even doubled through the impossibility to know for certain position and momentum of a particle. Here, every calculation is just an approximation to certainty. Contingency is the essence of scientific truth. Without acknowledging this, science would become a dogmatic religion and lose its foremost quality to question itself, although it paradoxically searches to avoid erring while seeking truth.

In my paper I want to present first research results of my current ethnographic study, where I aim to systematically compare work practices and modes of thinking within two scientific collaborations using particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the CERN: the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) and the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid)

Production of ideas about space and time in High Energy Physics seems at first glance a clearcut ... more Production of ideas about space and time in High Energy Physics seems at first glance a clearcut case of pure technoscience. Especially the biggest machine ever built by humans, the Large Hadron Colider at CERN and its detectors, represent an engineered realisation of the humanist dream to overcome the differences of languages, cultures, religions and ethnicities with means of scientific rationality. However, while trying to "perceive whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds" (Goethe, Faust I), the researchers from all over the world rely on far more than mathematical physics and computer technology. In order to unveil the secrets of the world, they have to fight the ghosts of simulation and struggle with contingency of nature. Playfulness seems to be the key of understanding how knowledge collectives at CERN stand the pressure and glue themselves together in order to become a functioning and fun place of work. And, to protect themselves from failing, even physicists are in the need of a little bit of magic …

This talk contains spacio-temporal reflections about western notions of space and time which lead... more This talk contains spacio-temporal reflections about western notions of space and time which lead to the development of a new term for agencies. The term signed is especially helpful while conducting socio-anthropological field-work, at the intersection of contemporary observation and historical embeddening of empirical data within complex western societies. The emergence of the term signem is closely tied to the ethnographic research on the rift between thinking ,writing and doing poetry in general and the usage of german language by austrian writers in particular.

This talk explores the emergence of an individual "Ego" and the occidental concept of Love throug... more This talk explores the emergence of an individual "Ego" and the occidental concept of Love through the media technology/cultural technique of writing, taking the example of Sappho from Lesbos, the first "indoeuropean" human who ever has been recorded to write "I", and addressing an other in love.

Dichen und Denken tun Österreich. Eine literarische Ethnographie, 2015

Das vorliegende Buch resultiert aus einer zweijährigen empirischen Feldforschung in Wien 2009-201... more Das vorliegende Buch resultiert aus einer zweijährigen empirischen Feldforschung in Wien 2009-2011. Es untersucht den Einfluss von Schriftsteller:innen und Künstler:innen auf die österreichische Nationsbildung in der Zweiten Republik. Durchzogen von der ethnografischen Technik des Erlebnisstroms werden Narratologie, Medienanthropologie und Ethnografie zusammengeführt, um über die Bedeutung von Sprache für Weltanschauung und -wahrnehmung am Beispiel de Deutschen nachzudenken. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Frage, wie das geschriebene Wort kulturelle Imaginationen und nationale Identitäten prägt und welche Bedeutung Medien in diesem Prozess haben. Deshalb befasste sich ein Kapitel logischerweise auch mit der Verwandlung der Sprache von Gabe in Ware am Beispiel des Verlagswesens und der Förderungslandschaft von Literatur in Österreich. Nicht zuletzt stellt die Arbeit eine Reflexion über die von Hegel formulierte Problematik nach, ob und wie Erkenntnis im Jetzt möglich sei.

Interferences and Events On Epistemic Shifts in Physics through Computer Simulations, 2017

Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeav... more Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status of computer simulations is rather controversial as they are neither just theory nor just experiment. Therefore, computer simulations have challenged well-established insights and common scientific practices as well as our very understanding of knowledge.

This volume contributes to the ongoing discussion on the epistemic position of computer simulations in a variety of physical disciplines, such as quantum optics, quantum mechanics, and computational physics. Originating from an interdisciplinary event, it shows that accounts of contemporary physics can constructively interfere with media theory, philosophy, and the history of science.

http://www.turia.at/titel/dippel.html Im Buchhandel erhältlich! Anne Dippel hat auf der Ba... more http://www.turia.at/titel/dippel.html

Im Buchhandel erhältlich!

Anne Dippel hat auf der Basis von zweieinhalb Jahren Feldforschung und Archivrecherche ein ungewöhnliches Spektrum österreichischer Identität erschlossen. Dazu gehört wesentlich der Bereich der Kulturproduktion, insbesondere der Literatur die, so wie der Film und andere Künste, in Österreich eine unverwechselbare Signatur aufweist. Sprache, Nation und Kultur sind gemacht, nicht gegeben. Am Beispiel Österreichs lässt sich wie bei kaum einem anderen Land des heutigen Europa der komplexe Prozesscharakter kollektiver Identität veranschaulichen. Dieser Sachverhalt gewinnt durch den ethnographischen Blick einer in Österreich lebenden »Ausländerin« aus Deutschland neue Plastizität. Vor dem Hintergrund der österreichischen Geschichte bis hinein in die Gegenwart der weltweiten Verflechtungen und kulturellen Differenzkriege, anhand von vielen Gesprächen mit Akteuren und Akteurinnen der österreichischen Kulturszene, wird die Besonderheit des österreichischen Verhältnisses zur deutschen Sprache, das Dichten und Denken in Österreich, sichtbar.

Talk at 4S New Orleans, 2019

Multiple agents weave the fabric of uncertainty in a data-driven workspace, at the same time orch... more Multiple agents weave the fabric of uncertainty in a data-driven workspace, at the same time orchestrating the ubiquitous phantasma of certainty in an ever more unstable economical-political global reality. In this talk I will look at the current condition, going beyond the entanglement of hardware, software, algorithms and infrastructures (Leigh-Star, Seaver, Tutton). What interests me is how humans interact with one another when interacting with machines in liberal structures of patriarchy, so fundamental in the shaping of the data-driven world (Atanasoski/Vora 2019). I put a particular emphasis on the rhythms of “doing things” by investigating the importance of cuts and ruptures, disturbing and destabilising seemingly stable infrastructures (Barad 2007, Mairhofer/Harms/Dippel 2019).

I exemplify this non-trivial assumption through a fieldwork episode within the high-energy physics community at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where I have been conducting research since 2013. This field is perhaps one of the most traditional of STS sites. However, while former studies focused mostly on social and cultural aspects of physics, my project investigates media and socio-technical phenomena, especially the question of human relations to one another within such apparatuses, regarding gender and race politics amongst others.

Rezension: Koch, Georg: Funde und Fiktionen. Urgeschichte in deutschenund britischen Fernsehen seit den 1960er Jahren., 2020

Rezension: Koch, Georg: Funde und Fiktionen. Urgeschichte in deutschenund britischen Fernsehen s... more Rezension: Koch, Georg: Funde und Fiktionen. Urgeschichte in deutschenund britischen Fernsehen seit den 1960er Jahren. Göttingen: Wallstein 2019