Sebastian Berg

About

Sebastian Berg is a political theorist in the research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” and a member of “Politics of Digitalization” at the WZB Social Science Center. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Law and has held research and teaching positions at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, FU Berlin & Princeton University.

His research focuses on digital democracy and civic technologies, theories of democratic representation, political phenomenology and the critical theory of digital statehood. In his doctoral thesis, Sebastian has developed a critique of the calculative regimes of political representation in the digital constellation.

Research Group: Technology, Power, and Domination