Nelly Saibel // Normativity in the Age of Blockchain
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NameNelly Saibel
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Doctoral project
Working title: Normativity in the age of blockchain
Subject area: Political Science
Core research areas: Political philosophy, data infrastructures, post-Soviet studies
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. iur. Sabine Müller Mall, Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
Abstract
The doctoral project with the working title "Normativity in the Age of Blockchain" is in the field of political philosophy and examines the political and legal dimensions of decentralized data infrastructures using the example of the blockchain. At the center of the investigation are para-legal orders, particularly the so-called Lex Cryptographica (De Filippi/Wright, 2018), which are to be understood as the product of a technical materiality of software protocols and thus must be understood as a counter-model to democratic procedures of law/enforcement. Starting from an initially technology-historical perspective, normative orders based on socio-technical data realities are to be made tangible using the example of decentralized data infrastructures.
Curriculum Vitae
| Since April 2024 | Fellow of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden |
| 10/2014 - 11/2019 | Bachelor's degree in Political Science (B.A.) with a minor in Sociology at TU Dresden; title of Bachelor's thesis: "Subject/s That Matter/s. Reflections on the subject of feminism in the postmodern era" |
| 10/2016 - 01/2021 | Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (B.A.) with the sub-subjects German Studies and Philosophy at TU Dresden; title of Bachelor's thesis: "Wahrnehmungsspiele in den Kontrollgesellschaften. A contribution to Saša Stanišić's origin" |
| 01/2017 - 02/2024 | Assistant at the Chair of Legal and Constitutional Studies with interdisciplinary Relations (Prof. Dr. iur Sabine Müller-Mall), TU Dresden |
| 03/2018 - 09/2023 | Study grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation |
| 02/2019 - 07/2019 | Erasmus semester, University of Wrocławski, Poland |
| 07/2019 - 09/2019 | Internship abroad, Washington D.C., USA (GIZ scholarship as part of the German-American Internship Program) |
| 10/2020 - 12/2023 |
Master's program "Politics and the Constitution" (M.A.) at TU Dresden; Title of the Master's thesis: "Blockchain != Freiheit. A political topography of the blockchain" |
| 10/2020 - 03/2024 | Master's program "Literature, Culture and Societal Change" (M.A.) at the TU Dresden |
| 08/2021 - 03/2022 |
Stay abroad at the Higher School of Economics Moscow (Высшая Школа Экономики), Russian Federation |
Publications
Saibel, Nelly (2024): "Ambivalent past. On the narration of the post-Soviet past in Svetlana Aleksievič's Secondhand Time. Leben auf denTrümmerndes Sozialismus (2013)", in: Nada Arbesmeier/Anni-Lotta Hamer/Stefan Strietzel/Sarah Walgern (eds.): Generationswechsel in den Osteuropastudien. Student perspectives on fault lines and continuities in Eastern Europe. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 143-154. (https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7091-2/generationenwechsel-in-den-osteuropastudien/?c=310024671)