Much of the contemporary digital debate seems to be stuck between the narratives of absolute empowerment through neoliberalism - mostly by means of boutique and ubiquitous digital markets a la Uber and Airbnb - and the narratives of absolute domination through surveillance capitalism - where our every move is not only tracked but actually pre-programmed. The former promise to give us back control but at the cost of ultimate submission to the logic of the market; the latter, while painting a darker picture, suggest that a more humane, less intrusive capitalism might restore our agency. Is that all that the digital modernity offers us? In this talk, Evgeny Morozov will outline the broad contours of a very different political agenda that seeks to redeploy the vast potentials of digital infrastructures towards the goals of enhancing democratic agency, boosting autonomy, and facilitating individual and collective becoming and discovery

• Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013). He is also the founder and the publisher of The Syllabus, a knowledge curation initiative. He holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford and Georgetown and has published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Financial Times, and many other publications. His upcoming book is Freedom as a Service (2022).
• Moderation: Prof. Jürgen Neyer (European New School of Digital Studies, Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice)

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The event is part of the Viadrinicum summer school of 2021:

Transsectoral DigitalLab: (Dis-)Assembling the (Post-)Digital Social

a cooperation of Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), ZOiS and the European New School of Digital Studies (ens)

Viadrinicum is an annual summer school devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. This year‘s edition is designed as a transsectoral Digital - Lab, aiming to explore social and political dimensi - ons of digitalisation from multiple theoretical and methodological angles. With the help of academic seminars the school will allow its participants to critically engage with the notions of the digital self and the (post-)digital social, datafication and algo - rithmisation of life, as well as digital infrastructures and smart technologies. Besides that, the participants will be able to enhan - ce their practical and methodological skills in the framework of several project-oriented workshops.