Felix Stalder
Felix Stalder (1968, Basel) is a professor for Digital Culture and Network Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on new modes of commons-based production, control society, copyright and transformation of subjectivity. He not only works as an academic, but also a cultural producer, being a moderator of the mailing list Nettime since 1998, and a member of the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group, both based in Vienna. (2020)
After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2001 he worked as a post-doc with the Surveillance Project, a transdisciplinary research initiative based in the Department of Sociology, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (completed in 2002). Since 2003, he has been a part-time faculty member in Zürich.
In 2000 he co-founded an open source R&D firm headquartered in Toronto, Openflows.org, with Jesse Hirsh. He edited newspapers with Public Netbase/t0 and co-organised a number of conferences including Open Cultures (2003), Free Bitflows (2004), Wizards of OS (2004, 2006) and World-Information City (2005). He lives in Vienna and Zürich.
Works
Monographs
- Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks / Otvorena kultura i priroda mreža, eds. kuda.org, Novi Sad: Futura publikacije, Sarajevo: Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, and Frankfurt: Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2005, 91+97 pp, PDF/en, PDF/sr. (English)/(Serbian)
- Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. (English)
- Manuel Castells: teoria społeczeństwa sieci, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2012. (Polish)
- Digital Solidarity, London: Mute, and Lüneburg: Post Media Lab, 2013. (English)
- Digitale Solidarität, Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2014. (German)
- Der Autor am Ende der Gutenberg Galaxis, Zürich: Buch & Netz, 2014. (German)
- Kultur der Digitalität, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016. Reviews. (German)
- The Digital Condition, trans. Valentine Pakis, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018, xi+204 pp. (English)
Editor
- with Josephine Bosma et al., ReadMe! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, 556 pp. (English)
- Media Arts Zurich. 13 Positions / Mediale Kunst Zürich. 13 Positionen, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008, 204 pp. (English)/(German)
- with Konrad Becker, Deep Search: Politics of Search Beyond Google, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2009. [1] (English)
- Deep Search. Politik des Suchens jenseits von Google, Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2009, 220 pp. (German)
- with Clemens Apprich, Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa, Bielefeld: transcript, 2012, 348 pp. (German)
- with Wolfgang Sützl, Ronald Maier, Theo Hug, Media, Knowledge and Education: Cultures and Ethics of Sharing / Kulturen und Ethiken des Teilens, Innsbruck University Press, 2012, 272 pp. (English),(German)
- with Cornelia Sollfrank and Shusha Niederberger, Aesthetics of the Commons, Zurich: diaphanes, 2021, 275 pp. (English)
Papers, essays
Bibliography, Blog posts about publications, Publications from 1996-2008
