Vicky Kluzik

studied Political Science, Economics and Cultural Studies in Munich, Paris and Berlin before she moved to the UK to complete a multidisciplinary masters in Art and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. After her studies, she worked at the OECD (esp. on the “future of work”) and as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie-PhD Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law at the University of Aberdeen. Since September 2020, she is a Research Associate in the “Biotechnologies, Nature and Society” Research Group at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is interested in transdisciplinary dialogues across science and cultural production in search for sustainable futures. Kluzik’s research interests include social theory, STS, political economy and cultural geography.

Publications

Core Publications

Barla, J., Kluzik, V., & Lemke, T. (eds.) (2022). Biokapital. Beiträge zur kritischen politischen Ökonomie des Lebens. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Most Recent

Kluzik, V. (2022). A short essay on technological futures, uneven geographies, and the value of labour. European images: The photographic newsletter on European matters, 5.

Berfelde, R., & Kluzik, V. (2022). Platforms becoming infrastructural? Mapping socio-spatial transformations. In Bauriedl, S., & Strüver, Anke (eds.), Platform Urbanism Towards a technocapitalist transformation of European cities? Bielefeld: transcript (in press).

Barla, J., Kluzik, V., & Lemke, T. (2022). Einleitung. In Barla, J., Kluzik, V., & Lemke, T. (eds.), Biokapital. Beiträge zur kritischen politischen Ökonomie des Lebens. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 9-49.

Kluzik, V. (2022). Governing invisibility in the platform economy: excavating the logics of platform care. Special Issue on “Gender and the Platform Economy” of Internet Policy Review, 11 (1).

Kluzik, V. (2021): Seeing like a platform: caring democracies in the digital age. In Wahal, E. (ed.), Unboxing AI. Utopie 108/ Futuro del lavaro. Milan: Fondacione Giacomo Feltrinelli.

Kluzik, V. (2021). Zur Aktualisierung von Flexploitation: Sorge, Prekarität und digitale Plattformen. In Altenried, M., Dück, J., & Wallis, M. (eds.), Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise sozialer Reproduktion. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.

Berfelde, R., Kluzik, V., & Peters, N. (2020). Mediating the Crisis: Platformisation and Covid-19. Political Economy Research Centre Blog, 2^nd October 2020.

Kluzik, V. (2020). Peripheral care flows, or: transnational precarity? Kajet. Journal for Eastern Europe, 4.

Kluzik, V. (2020). Laserpolitics. Experimental politics beyond dataveillance in the streets of Hong Kong. engagée: Journal for Art, Politics and Activism, 9.

Kluzik, V. (2016). Kulturelle Macht und Gesellschaft. Politik des Kulturellen bei Antonio Gramsci und der Intellektuellen Neuen Rechten. Münchner Beiträge zur Politikwissenschaft, 144.