Anna-Verena Nosthoff

Anna-Verena Nosthoff is a publicist, philosopher and political theorist. She is co-director of the Data Politics Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin and Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. She also teaches at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna and researches the cybernetisation of the political and the political consequences of digitalisation.

In addition to academic publications, Nosthoff and Maschewski together regularly write essays on digital transformation, its ideological conditions and political-economic consequences for the Feuilleton of the FAS, Philosophie Magazin, Tagesspiegel, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Republik and Internazionale, among others. Most recently, they co-authored the book ‘Die Gesellschaft der Wearables. Digitale Verführung und soziale Kontrolle’ [‘Society of Wearables. Digital Seduction and Social Control’] (Nicolai, 2019).