Johannes Kögel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Kögel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Kögel |
| SIGNATURE | KOGEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2103-4643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Floating nationality
Nationality can be understood not simply as legal membership in a political community but as a complex and unstable means of signifying collective identity. References to nationality do not carry a fixed meaning; instead, they function as signifiers that attempt to create coherence and continuity in how groups understand themselves. Nationality operates at the intersection of identity (what a group believes it is) and membership (who belongs), ye…
Transparency in Biotech Governance
Transparency has become a fundamental public value and a linchpin for effective policymaking. Accordingly, emerging biotechnologies, along with their regulatory and implementation frameworks, are increasingly evaluated against this standard. To illustrate this point, we draw on the example of a citizen conference addressing the issue of xenotransplantation. The citizen group expressed conditional support for xenotransplantation, with their approv…
Putting animal parts into humans
The roles of animals—particularly pigs and nonhuman primates—in xenotransplantation reveal complex ethical and symbolic dynamics. Nonhuman primates, due to their cognitive proximity to humans, were increasingly positioned as recipients rather than organ sources, reflecting an ethical “hierarchical upgrade.” Pigs, genetically engineered to provide organs, embody an ambiguous status: highly alienated through biotechnological manipulation and steril…
Patient choice as inclusion criterion for first clinical trials of xenotransplantation
Who shall go first? A multicriteria approach to patient selection for first clinical trials of cardiac xenotransplantation
After achieving sustained graft functioning in animal studies, the next step in the progression of xenotransplantation towards clinical application is the initiation of the first clinical trials. This raises the question according to which criteria patients shall be selected for these trials. While the discussion regarding medical criteria has already commenced, ethical considerations must also be taken into account. This is essential, first, to …
Making Sense of Nationality
References to nationality can serve various purposes beyond signifying belonging or membership to a polity. Tracking the logic of nationality, using an empirical example, combines the concept of schismogenesis with the notions of the floating signifier and suture. Signifiers set purely by means of contrast to others denote a chain of signifiers without an anchoring point, leaving it in a floating state. Nationality seems to occupy such a point, s…
Navigating Nationality
The book explores national self-descriptions among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and accounts for perspectives of nation-states in the Global South.
The public you want, the public you get
The debate that followed the first-in-human cardiac transplantation of a genetically modified pig organ emerged as a discussion of social justice when the patient’s criminal record was revealed. This article aims to make sense of this debate by understanding the role of the ‘public’ today, particularly in relation to the governance of biotechnology. The relationship between the public and science is increasingly mediated through citizen participa…
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
Für einen anti-integratorischen Imperativ
Integration ist ein Allgemeinplatz geworden. Er funktioniert als Erwartungshaltung gegenüber Migrant*innen. Begriffsanalytisch betrachtet impliziert Integration Annahmen, die in ihrer Anwendung auf die heutige Gesellschaft zu Paradoxien führen. Dies sind zum einen die Annahme einer homogenen Zielentität von Integration und zum anderen die Annahme der impliziten Asymmetrie. Versuche, diese Annahmen zu umgehen, führen zu Theoriekonstrukten, die die…
What It Takes to Be a Pioneer
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are envisioned to enable new abilities of action. This potential can be fruitful in particular when it comes to restoring lost motion or communication abilities or to implementing new possibilities of action. However, BCIs do not come without presuppositions. Applying the concept of ability expectations to BCIs, a wide range of requirements on the side of the users becomes apparent. We examined these ability expec…
Making Sense of Nationality
References to nationality can serve various purposes beyond signifying belonging or membership to a polity. Tracking the logic of nationality, using an empirical example, combines the concept of schismogenesis with the notions of the floating signifier and suture. Signifiers set purely by means of contrast to others denote a chain of signifiers without an anchoring point, leaving it in a floating state. Nationality seems to occupy such a point, s…
Für einen anti-integratorischen Imperativ
Integration ist ein Allgemeinplatz geworden. Er funktioniert als Erwartungshaltung gegenüber Migrant*innen. Begriffsanalytisch betrachtet impliziert Integration Annahmen, die in ihrer Anwendung auf die heutige Gesellschaft zu Paradoxien führen. Dies sind zum einen die Annahme einer homogenen Zielentität von Integration und zum anderen die Annahme der impliziten Asymmetrie. Versuche, diese Annahmen zu umgehen, führen zu Theoriekonstrukten, die die…
What It Takes to Be a Pioneer
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are envisioned to enable new abilities of action. This potential can be fruitful in particular when it comes to restoring lost motion or communication abilities or to implementing new possibilities of action. However, BCIs do not come without presuppositions. Applying the concept of ability expectations to BCIs, a wide range of requirements on the side of the users becomes apparent. We examined these ability expec…
Navigating Nationality
The book explores national self-descriptions among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and accounts for perspectives of nation-states in the Global South.
The public you want, the public you get
The debate that followed the first-in-human cardiac transplantation of a genetically modified pig organ emerged as a discussion of social justice when the patient’s criminal record was revealed. This article aims to make sense of this debate by understanding the role of the ‘public’ today, particularly in relation to the governance of biotechnology. The relationship between the public and science is increasingly mediated through citizen participa…
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
Putting animal parts into humans
The roles of animals—particularly pigs and nonhuman primates—in xenotransplantation reveal complex ethical and symbolic dynamics. Nonhuman primates, due to their cognitive proximity to humans, were increasingly positioned as recipients rather than organ sources, reflecting an ethical “hierarchical upgrade.” Pigs, genetically engineered to provide organs, embody an ambiguous status: highly alienated through biotechnological manipulation and steril…
Patient choice as inclusion criterion for first clinical trials of xenotransplantation
Who shall go first? A multicriteria approach to patient selection for first clinical trials of cardiac xenotransplantation
After achieving sustained graft functioning in animal studies, the next step in the progression of xenotransplantation towards clinical application is the initiation of the first clinical trials. This raises the question according to which criteria patients shall be selected for these trials. While the discussion regarding medical criteria has already commenced, ethical considerations must also be taken into account. This is essential, first, to …
Making Sense of Nationality
References to nationality can serve various purposes beyond signifying belonging or membership to a polity. Tracking the logic of nationality, using an empirical example, combines the concept of schismogenesis with the notions of the floating signifier and suture. Signifiers set purely by means of contrast to others denote a chain of signifiers without an anchoring point, leaving it in a floating state. Nationality seems to occupy such a point, s…
Floating nationality
Nationality can be understood not simply as legal membership in a political community but as a complex and unstable means of signifying collective identity. References to nationality do not carry a fixed meaning; instead, they function as signifiers that attempt to create coherence and continuity in how groups understand themselves. Nationality operates at the intersection of identity (what a group believes it is) and membership (who belongs), ye…
Transparency in Biotech Governance
Transparency has become a fundamental public value and a linchpin for effective policymaking. Accordingly, emerging biotechnologies, along with their regulatory and implementation frameworks, are increasingly evaluated against this standard. To illustrate this point, we draw on the example of a citizen conference addressing the issue of xenotransplantation. The citizen group expressed conditional support for xenotransplantation, with their approv…
Xenotransplantation and immune response (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (4 works) · Transplantation (4 works) · Xenotransplantation (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Nationality (3 works) · Philippine History and Culture (3 works)