Markus Kienscherf
Biographic Data
| ID | 251717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Kienscherf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Kienscherf |
| SIGNATURE | KIENSCHERF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7202-1482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Train and deploy
The generative AI industry has seen exponential growth over the past 3 years. We attempt to critically analyse its political economy, through a focus on two moments: the training of models, and their deployment downstream. First, we make the case that generative AI presupposes a number of expropriative processes that enable the exploitation of wage labour in the production of models as commodities. Second, we argue that generative AI represents o…
Social Reproduction Under Lockdown
This article argues that the pandemic-related growth of the gendered burden of care work in the Global North ought to be understood as symptomatic of the entangled contradictions between capitalist accumulation and social reproduction, on the one hand, and between value-production and wealth-creation, on the other. The article addresses whether social reproductive labor produces value. The article, moreover, shows that pandemic-induced lockdowns …
Surveillance Capital and Post-Fordist Accumulation
This article presents a critical political economy of contemporary surveillance-for-profit. The article makes the central argument that surveillance capital emerged out of the contradictions of capitalist accumulation and remains subject to the imperative of accumulation for the sake of ever more accumulation. Platforms constitute the infrastructure and surveillance provides the instrument for the expropriation-accumulation-commodification of use…
Race, class and persistent coloniality
This article argues that US policing ends up maintaining and reinforcing substantive intersecting racial and class divisions, precisely because of its avowed formal neutrality. The article is divided into two main sections. The first section sets up a theoretical apparatus for conceptualising the seeming contradiction between general and specific social control. This section argues that US policing has a colonial genealogy but now serves to repro…
‘A Struggle for Control and Influence’
This chapter will, on the one hand, show that in their problematization of individual and collective autonomy, Western rationalities and practices of counter-insurgency can be read as symptomatic of a post-liberal paradigm of intervention. Yet, on the other hand, this contribution will also problematize the supposed break between liberal and post-liberal rationalities and practices of intervention. In fact, liberal political thought has always pr…
Producing 'responsible' self-governance
This article analyses western counterinsurgency as a neoliberal assemblage of war, police and government 'at a distance'. It will show that based on so-called lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, western counterinsurgency has increasingly shifted towards 'intervention at-a distance' aimed at enabling local powerbrokers to become more capable of fighting insurgents, of policing their population and of governing more responsibly. This bears a s…
Beyond Militarization and Repression
This article will argue that the concepts of repression and militarization are inadequate tools for a radical critique of the targeted and selective application of coercion and consent in efforts to (re)produce a liberal capitalist order. The article will first of all show how liberal social control is best understood as uneven processes of pacification targeting specific individuals, groups and populations through a combination of coercion and c…
US domestic and international regimes of security
A programme of global pacification
This article argues that US counterinsurgency doctrine forms a programme of both liberal rule and liberal war whose ultimate purpose is the pacification of recalcitrant populations and their eventual (re)integration into the networks of liberal governance. Designed to promote ‘safe’ forms of life while eradicating ‘dangerous’ ones, the doctrine constitutes a response to both the biopolitical problematization of human (in)security and the geostrat…
Plugging Cultural Knowledge into the U.S. Military Machine
In this contribution to Cultures of Militarization and the Military-Cultural Complex I wish to analyze the recent trend toward the militarization of culture; or, to be precise, the military deployment of cultural knowledge in efforts to pacify recalcitrant non-Western populations and extend stable governmental structures to spaces at the margins of Western power. I will map how cultural knowledge is currently sought to be plugged into the U.S., o…
A programme of global pacification
This article argues that US counterinsurgency doctrine forms a programme of both liberal rule and liberal war whose ultimate purpose is the pacification of recalcitrant populations and their eventual (re)integration into the networks of liberal governance. Designed to promote ‘safe’ forms of life while eradicating ‘dangerous’ ones, the doctrine constitutes a response to both the biopolitical problematization of human (in)security and the geostrat…
Beyond Militarization and Repression
This article will argue that the concepts of repression and militarization are inadequate tools for a radical critique of the targeted and selective application of coercion and consent in efforts to (re)produce a liberal capitalist order. The article will first of all show how liberal social control is best understood as uneven processes of pacification targeting specific individuals, groups and populations through a combination of coercion and c…
Producing 'responsible' self-governance
This article analyses western counterinsurgency as a neoliberal assemblage of war, police and government 'at a distance'. It will show that based on so-called lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, western counterinsurgency has increasingly shifted towards 'intervention at-a distance' aimed at enabling local powerbrokers to become more capable of fighting insurgents, of policing their population and of governing more responsibly. This bears a s…
Plugging Cultural Knowledge into the U.S. Military Machine
In this contribution to Cultures of Militarization and the Military-Cultural Complex I wish to analyze the recent trend toward the militarization of culture; or, to be precise, the military deployment of cultural knowledge in efforts to pacify recalcitrant non-Western populations and extend stable governmental structures to spaces at the margins of Western power. I will map how cultural knowledge is currently sought to be plugged into the U.S., o…
Race, class and persistent coloniality
This article argues that US policing ends up maintaining and reinforcing substantive intersecting racial and class divisions, precisely because of its avowed formal neutrality. The article is divided into two main sections. The first section sets up a theoretical apparatus for conceptualising the seeming contradiction between general and specific social control. This section argues that US policing has a colonial genealogy but now serves to repro…
Surveillance Capital and Post-Fordist Accumulation
This article presents a critical political economy of contemporary surveillance-for-profit. The article makes the central argument that surveillance capital emerged out of the contradictions of capitalist accumulation and remains subject to the imperative of accumulation for the sake of ever more accumulation. Platforms constitute the infrastructure and surveillance provides the instrument for the expropriation-accumulation-commodification of use…
Plugging Cultural Knowledge into the U.S. Military Machine
In this contribution to Cultures of Militarization and the Military-Cultural Complex I wish to analyze the recent trend toward the militarization of culture; or, to be precise, the military deployment of cultural knowledge in efforts to pacify recalcitrant non-Western populations and extend stable governmental structures to spaces at the margins of Western power. I will map how cultural knowledge is currently sought to be plugged into the U.S., o…
A programme of global pacification
This article argues that US counterinsurgency doctrine forms a programme of both liberal rule and liberal war whose ultimate purpose is the pacification of recalcitrant populations and their eventual (re)integration into the networks of liberal governance. Designed to promote ‘safe’ forms of life while eradicating ‘dangerous’ ones, the doctrine constitutes a response to both the biopolitical problematization of human (in)security and the geostrat…
US domestic and international regimes of security
Producing 'responsible' self-governance
This article analyses western counterinsurgency as a neoliberal assemblage of war, police and government 'at a distance'. It will show that based on so-called lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, western counterinsurgency has increasingly shifted towards 'intervention at-a distance' aimed at enabling local powerbrokers to become more capable of fighting insurgents, of policing their population and of governing more responsibly. This bears a s…
Beyond Militarization and Repression
This article will argue that the concepts of repression and militarization are inadequate tools for a radical critique of the targeted and selective application of coercion and consent in efforts to (re)produce a liberal capitalist order. The article will first of all show how liberal social control is best understood as uneven processes of pacification targeting specific individuals, groups and populations through a combination of coercion and c…
‘A Struggle for Control and Influence’
This chapter will, on the one hand, show that in their problematization of individual and collective autonomy, Western rationalities and practices of counter-insurgency can be read as symptomatic of a post-liberal paradigm of intervention. Yet, on the other hand, this contribution will also problematize the supposed break between liberal and post-liberal rationalities and practices of intervention. In fact, liberal political thought has always pr…
Race, class and persistent coloniality
This article argues that US policing ends up maintaining and reinforcing substantive intersecting racial and class divisions, precisely because of its avowed formal neutrality. The article is divided into two main sections. The first section sets up a theoretical apparatus for conceptualising the seeming contradiction between general and specific social control. This section argues that US policing has a colonial genealogy but now serves to repro…
Surveillance Capital and Post-Fordist Accumulation
This article presents a critical political economy of contemporary surveillance-for-profit. The article makes the central argument that surveillance capital emerged out of the contradictions of capitalist accumulation and remains subject to the imperative of accumulation for the sake of ever more accumulation. Platforms constitute the infrastructure and surveillance provides the instrument for the expropriation-accumulation-commodification of use…
Social Reproduction Under Lockdown
This article argues that the pandemic-related growth of the gendered burden of care work in the Global North ought to be understood as symptomatic of the entangled contradictions between capitalist accumulation and social reproduction, on the one hand, and between value-production and wealth-creation, on the other. The article addresses whether social reproductive labor produces value. The article, moreover, shows that pandemic-induced lockdowns …
Train and deploy
The generative AI industry has seen exponential growth over the past 3 years. We attempt to critically analyse its political economy, through a focus on two moments: the training of models, and their deployment downstream. First, we make the case that generative AI presupposes a number of expropriative processes that enable the exploitation of wage labour in the production of models as commodities. Second, we argue that generative AI represents o…
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