Nelly Saibel // Political Theory of the Blockchain
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NameNelly Saibel
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Doctoral project
Working title: Political Theory of the Blockchain
Subject area: Political Science
Core research areas: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Blockchain, Post-Soviet Studies
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. iur. Sabine Müller Mall, Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
Abstract
The project examines the current socio-technical challenges of liberal democracy from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the nexus of anti-democratic political forms, authoritarian neo-/liberalism and the blockchain technology. In this context, a form of political thought is developing that is to be explored in this dissertation project both, genealogically and in terms of political theory and is situated between the 1990s and the present. The question here is what kind of political models have been formulated at the interface of politics, economics and technology since the 1990s and what role blockchain technology plays in this formation.
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 at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Washington D.C., USA |
| 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 den Trümmern des 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)