In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the notion of “infection drivers” (Infektionstreiber) has gained currency in German discourse on school closings. This paper traces its discursive origins and its typical usage, using two twitter-corpora. The analysis indicates that the term is not so much used to name driving forces in the dynamics of the pan…[Read more]

Today we witness a variety of attacks on the different forms of research. Opposing these attacks against scientists, journalists and artists, the demand for a freedom of research is an important common ground for organizing solidarity and publicly denouncing repres-sion, intimidation and manipulation. However, the notion of freedom of research is…[Read more]

The article opposes the naturalization of globalization and flexibilization as necessary economic processes. It points out the discursive processes that underly both developements. Globalization and flexibilization are effective via a “recursive interpelation”: they are locally produced as a translocal phenomenon, which, in turn, appears to be con…[Read more]