ETHPrague 2024

Martin Woesler

Martin Woesler is academic supervisor of the research project SCORING, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Science, hosted by Witten/Herdecke University and Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also Director of the Research Centre of Excellence in Changsha, funded by the EU. His research interests include AI, Digitalization in Asia, Europe, and the USA, cultural comparison, translation studies, comparative literature. Woesler simultaneously holds professorship positions in Asia and Europe. Newest publication with Martin Warnke: Social Cybernetics In Statu Nascendi, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2024. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-woesler/


Session

06-01
10:00
25min
A Merit Based Utopia Or A Panoptical Dystopia? - Organizing the Unfree World - From Inside A Futuristic Surveillance Ecosystem
Martin Woesler

What if every good deed we performed earned us points? What if our positive behavior determined our societal standing, propelling us to the highest ranks and rewarding us with a plethora of privileges?

Societal Challenges
Flower Stage