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PublicationAI and the Western Illusion of Human Nature: Anthropology's fight against Human Reducationism and its Interdisciplinary FutureWith the rise of AI driven technologies, algorithms have replaced paperwork in the construction of social truths (Graeber, 2016); they build truths about who we are, our cultural worlds and our identities. Anthropologists have discussed the implications of big data as meaning construction (see Boellstroff and Mauer, 2015), the powerful discourses of algorithms as culture (Dourish, 2016; Seaver, 2017) or the multiple ways in which people are negotiating with data narratives in everyday life (Barassi, 2017, 2020; Pink et al., 2018; Dourish and Cruz, 2018). However, much more research is needed on the human reductionism implicit to these systems, and the western-centric and biased visions of human nature implicit to these technologies. This paper brings the findings of a three-year ethnographic project on the profiling of children from before birth (Child | Data | Citizen Project, 2016 - 2019) together with the findings of a (non-anthropological) research project aimed at analyzing the discourses around algorithmic profiling in Europe and the critical practices that are emerging against it (The Human Error Project, 2020 – ongoing). The paper will argue that anthropology has a fundamental role to play in the future of AI ethics research and the study of algorithmic profiling. The discipline reminds us that ideas of human nature are not only social and cultural but also political constructions (Sahlins, 2008; Graeber and Sahlins, 2017). Yet to succeed it will need to build projects that are truly interdisciplinary, which consider data-structures, policies, as well as popular media discourses.Type: conference keynote
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PublicationAktuelle Herausforderungen im Handelsregisterrecht( 2024-03-21)Lukas MüllerBBl 2022 702 BBl 2022 www.bundesrecht.admin.ch Massgebend ist die signierte elektronische FassungType: conference keynote
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PublicationAn ecosystem perspective on the customer buying center of B2B2C organizations – Conceptual foundations and qualitative insights( 2023-01-19)Susanna Maurer (née Renner)This paper explores the relevance of the customer buying center concept in the context of business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) organizations. It conceptualizes the B2B2C business model and the customer buying center of B2B2C organizations from the theoretical lens of service-dominant (S-D) logic. Based on in-depth interviews with marketing and sales managers from the construction industry in Germany and Switzerland, this study determines the dimensionalities of the B2B2C business model. It reveals the actors and their roles involved in the customer buying center. Existing literature about the customer buying center is updated, applying a service ecosystem perspective. The study broadens the scope of buying center literature, offering new insights for scholars and practitioners on the focal actors involved in the B2B2C customer buying center.Type: conference keynote
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PublicationBeyond Metabolism: On the Pluriversal Bodies of the Earth( 2023-09)In an age of socio-environmental breakdown, thinking planetary metabolism becomes crucial once again, as it was for Karl Marx in the second half of the nineteenth century, when he formulated his critique of capitalist agriculture and industrial labour. Biogeochemical cycles are now disrupted and material, social, and epistemic “metabolic rifts” are scarring the Earth and deepening the Global South/Global North divide. Grasping geopower through the lens of planetary metabolism captures the proliferation of environmental conflicts and forces critical theory to acknowledge the geohistorical roots of the crisis: the colonial inhabitation of the Earth inaugurated by plantations and slave labour. Yet, the notion of metabolism is deeply entrenched in the lexicon of liberal political biology, and often presupposes autonomous organic individualities in relation with their “outside” through metabolic exchanges (Maurizio Meloni). This paradigm of physiological modernism informs also political ecology and does not account neither for symbiotic and postgenomic understandings of biological life, nor for the metabolic mode of existence of non-biological entities such as stones, valleys, and rivers. My contribution addresses metabolism from the perspective of decolonial ecologies that question liberal biocentric premises. I will explore the decolonial concept of a pluriversal “body-territory” and show how it reshapes current descriptions of geopower.
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PublicationBeyond the Bottom Line: Transforming HR to Reinspire the Future of Work( 2023-11-14)Otti VogtType: conference keynote
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PublicationBeyond Trumpists and Claremonsters: Forging a Postliberal Consensus?( 2023-05-25)Claudia Franziska Brühwiler“2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die.” Prophecies of doom were nothing new during the 2016 elections, yet this particular line still caught the attention of political observers. While the majority of so-called “movement conservatives” had forged a “Never Trump” alliance, an essay in the Claremont Review of Books ignited a small, but forceful movement of intellectuals endorsing Donald J. Trump. “The Flight 93 Election” (Anton 2016) likened the decision to vote for Trump to the fateful flight on 9/11 and claimed that “movement conservatism” and the GOP in particular had betrayed not only the voters, but also the very ideas they allegedly stood for. The author, Michael Anton, would later continue with a series of articles and books to attack both conservatism and liberalism. He was joined by other so-called “Claremonsters,” i.e., Westcoast Straussians, who built on the writings of Leo Strauss and Harry V. Jaffa to question the legitimacy of the current American regime. Trump’s defeat and the attack on the Capitol have done little to quieten these voices that are alleging that liberalism is harming the United States, for instance by dividing the country into two warring conceptions of the constitution (Kesler 2021). Most prominently, Patrick J. Deneen, is suggesting the need for a postliberal order, as he sees in liberalism the root of America’s decline and the demise of institutions (Deneen 2018). This paper will analyze this emerging archipelago of conservative intellectuals propagating a new postliberal order. In a first step, it will outline the different camps of conservatism they stem from, and it will then analyze their critique of liberalism as well as their intellectual roots.
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PublicationBusiness Models and the Internet of Things (Extended Abstract)(Springer, 2014-09-18)
;Weinberger, Markus ;Podnar Žarko, Ivana ;Pripužić, KrešimirSerrano, MartinIn this extended abstract we aim on providing an overview on business models based on the Internet of Things for assisting companies that are currently focused on non-digital industries. In the first section the role of the Internet as an innovation driver for business models is reflected, secondly it is shown how business model patterns from digital industries are becoming relevant to physical industries as well. General business model logic patterns for the Internet of Things are shown and the challenges of implementing such patterns in hybrid business models are addressed.Type: conference keynoteScopus© Citations 86 -
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PublicationClosing the Climate Action Gap( 2023-03-22)
;Martina BuchhauserSven SteinertType: conference keynoteJournal: ICC Germany Supply Chain Forum -
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