Carola Westermeier
c-westermeier.bsky.social
Carola Westermeier
@c-westermeier.bsky.social
Research Group Leader @mpifg.bsky.social with a focus on the intersections of Technology and Sovereignty // carolawestermeier.org
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
doi.org
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❓How is climate adaptation becoming a security practice – and what does that tell us about the future of governance?

🚨 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is seeking a PhD researcher on extreme adaptation in the field of security and defence.

www.ifsh.de/institut/ste...
#climateresearch | Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)
🚨 Job alert - Are you looking for an excellent job opportunity in #ClimateResearch? 👇 👇 IFSH is seeking a PhD-Researcher (m/f/d) for the research project 'Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change' in th...
lnkd.in
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.

Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social

Send them your abstracts!
📣 Call for Abstracts!

Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.

🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.

s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.

The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Job Alert! Professur (Open Rank: W2 oder W1 mit Tenure Track auf W2) ,,Digitale Transformation in Arbeit und Gesellschaft". Gemeinsame Berufung von @tu-dortmund.de und @cais-research.bsky.social nach Jülicher Modell.
Ausschreibung unter:
service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18...
service.tu-dortmund.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.

My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Sehr aufschlussreiche und zugleich kurzweilige Lektüre zu @katharinapistor.bsky.socials Adorno Vorlesungen mit vielen hilfreich Referenzen und einem Hauch Frankfurter Atmosphäre als Mix aus IfS & (Zentral-)Banken. Danke insb. für den Absatz zum Potential des digitalen Euro @floschmittou.bsky.social
Zwischen juristischer Begutachtung, sozialwissenschaftlicher Problematisierung und politischer Intervention: Bei den Adorno-Lectures @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social sprach @katharinapistor.bsky.social zur „Neuordnung des Geldes“. Der Bericht von @floschmidt.bsky.social:

www.soziopolis.de/frankfurt-sc...
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Das ist spannend und ein deutliches Zeichen: Der internationale Gerichtshof schmeißt Microsoft raus und setzt auf deutsche Open-Source-Lösung - aus Angst vor Trump!

Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.

www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...
Handelsblatt
www.handelsblatt.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.

📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.

➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Mit Beiträgen von @andreabinder.bsky.social @steffenmurau.bsky.social @martynalinartas.bsky.social @carolinmueller.bsky.social @larsdoepking.bsky.social @c-westermeier.bsky.social Patrick Samtlebe, Philip Manow, Janosch Prinz, Jenny Stupka, Jürgen Unger-Sirsch, Christian Neuhäuser und mehr!
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Da ist der endlich: Der neue Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen - Zur (De-)Politisierung von Geld, Eigentum und Steuern" ist ausgepackt! @nomosverlag.bsky.social www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/politis...
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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From FaS to FAZ!

The paper "From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century" by Niklas Kullick and @johannespetry.bsky.social was just quoted in one of Germany's leading newspapers. 😎

Check out the paper here 👇
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Spotify ruiniert die Musikkultur. Wer es nutzt, weil er der Meinung ist, Kreative bräuchten ja kein Geld, sollte nicht rumjammern, dass inzwischen alles gleich klingt – denn das ist die logische Folge von algorithmisch gesteuerter Ausspielung. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Studie: Popmusik auf Spotify klingt immer ähnlicher
Die rhythmische und melodische Vielfalt von gestreamter Popmusik hat stark abgenommen, so das Ergebnis einer neuen Studie. Dahinter steckt der Trend zur „Bingeability“ – doch schuld sind die Streaming...
www.faz.net
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Warum klingen Songs zunehmend gleich?
Mit einem Mix aus Politischer Ökonomie und Kulturkritik der Frankfurter Schule sind Niklas Kullick @mpifg.bsky.social und @johannespetry.bsky.social dieser Frage nachgegangen.

@oliverbweber.bsky.social dazu in der @faznet.bsky.social

shorturl.at/QC3RO
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Ein neuer Leviathan-Sonderband befasst sich mit „Politischen Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen“. Welche Fragen und Themen verhandelt der Forschungszweig? Wir haben bei den Herausgeber:innen @aaronsahr.bsky.social, Eva Weiler und @huhnholz.bsky.social nachgefragt.

www.soziopolis.de/nachgefragt-...
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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If you enjoyed @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social's
Character Limit, and wondered about Musk’s ambitions to turn X into a fintech behemoth, then you might be interested in a new Open Access paper by @paullangley.bsky.social
and me on fintech's 'disappearance'.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance
www.cambridge.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Am 28. Oktober stellen @martynalinartas.bsky.social, @davidhengsbach.bsky.social, Eva Weiler, @aaronsahr.bsky.social und ich am @his-hamburg.bsky.social den LEVIATHAN-Sonderband

POLITISCHE THEORIEN ÖFFENTLICHER FINANZEN

vor @nomosverlag.bsky.social.

Kommt alle in den Mittelweg 36 um 19 Uhr!
October 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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🚨Job Alert 🚨
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)
An der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, Professur für Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle im Umfang von 30 Wochenstu...
jobs.uni-erfurt.de
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Wunderbare Splitter und Zusammenfassungen für diejenigen, die nicht vor Ort sein konnten.

Danke @soziopolis.bsky.social Die Auszeichnung der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social wurde alle Ehre gemacht!
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Immensely helpful post by @toteraltermann.bsky.social for anyone who is looking into submitting an application with the German DFG.
Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I
An open-access grant application in German and English
wondrousmachine.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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🔔 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀
Konferenz 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤 – 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙?
📅 18.–19. März 2026
📍 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

🗣️ Keynotes halten Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger ( @uni-wuerzburg.de) und Dr. @c-westermeier.bsky.social ( @mpifg.bsky.social).
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Obgleich ich etwas befangen bin: Niemand kann bezweifeln, welch Erfolg @soziopolis.bsky.social ist, wieviel Arbeit die Kolleg:innen investieren und welche Bedeutung eine solche Plattform für die Soziologie in Deutschland noch haben könnte. Hoffentlich geht es nach 2028 weiter. Glückwunsch!
Applaus für @soziopolis.bsky.social .
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Öffentlichkeitspreis der DGS! #dgs2025
September 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It was a real pleasure to be part of this event and to chair a session on geoeconomics.
It's truly one of the great privileges of my job to discuss current affairs with such a talented and thoughtful group of you women.
Thank you to the organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social & @dustinvoss.bsky.social
Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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*new article*

We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎

'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1017/fas....
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM