12.04.2026 –, Seminarraum 3 Sprache: English
This talk confronts military technoscience, especially AI, drones, and algorithmic warfare by bridging critical scholarship and activism. It presents research on control, autonomy, targeting, and datafication, and maps feminist and anticolonial resistance strategies to build solidarities among academics, artists, and social movements to challenge the normalization of “software-based war”.
This joint talk brings together critical scholarship and political engagement to open a conversation about how to confront today’s military technoscience beyond academic spaces. Jutta Weber will share her research on military AI, autonomous weapon systems, and drone infrastructures, including the MeHuCo project on meaningful human control, tracing how “software-based war” reshapes societies through datafication, automation, and expanding security infrastructures. She will outline how ideas such as autonomy, control, speed, precision, and accountability are being redefined in military and security contexts and what this means for everyday life. Building on this, Nil Uzun will reflect on activist and political engagements that contest military-technological power, bringing together critical perspectives from feminist and post/decolonial studies to discuss multiple forms of organizing, campaigning, and other forms of resistance. Together, we want to think with participants about potential points of intervention and alliances within communities of academics, artists, journalists, and social movements, as well as collective strategies to unsettle the normalization of military technoscience in Germany, Europe, and beyond.
Nil Uzun is a postdoctoral research associate with the Technology and Diversity Research Group at the Institute of Sociology, RWTH Aachen University. She holds degrees in economics, cultural studies, and social anthropology and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University. Her current project examines international initiatives mobilizing against the militarization of computational technologies and the alternative technoscientific futures that emerge within these contestations.
feminist science & technology scholar