Prof. Dr. Robert Stock
Robert Stock is Assistant Professor for Cultures of Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2017, he completed his PhD with a dissertation about cultural decolonization processes and documentaries between Mozambique and Portugal at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where he was a member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC).
Main research interests are the contemporary relations and cultures of knowledge of digital media and dis/abilities, the materiality of epistemic practices, Luso-African decolonization processes and postcolonial knowledge objects as well as human-animal-technology assemblages. In addition, he is interested in inclusion politics and access work in museum exhibitions.
From 2015 to 2021, he coordinated the DFG research unit »Media and Participation. Between Demand and Entitlement« at the University of Konstanz. There, he was also an associated postdoc researcher in the project »Technosensory Processes of Participation. App-practices and Dis/Ability«. He is co-founder of the scientific network Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media (funded by DFG).
Find out more about his current Cluster project Active Trees - Knowledge, Technologies and Futures.
Material Form Function (Principal Investigator)
Filtering (Cluster Professor)
Material Form Function (Cluster Professor)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of Cultural History and Theory
Georgenstraße 47
10117 Berlin
Articles in Edited Volumes
Stock, R. 2019. »Gehmaschinen: Menschen, Tiere und Gehirn-Maschine-Schnittstellen als hybride Kollektive.« edited by Bolinski, I., Rieger, S. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 89-108.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04941-4_6
Stock, R. 2016. »Körper im/als Schaltkreis. DIY-Apparaturen und audiovisuelle Praktiken sinnlicher Wahrnehmung.« In Technisierte Lebenswelt. Über den Prozess der Figuration von Mensch und Technik, edited by Adam, M.-H., Gellai, S., Knifka, J. Bielefeld: transcript, 89-104.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430798-005
Articles
Ochsner, B., Spöhrer, M., Stock, R. 2021. »Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing.« NanoEthics, 16: 65–79.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00381-5
Stock, R. 2013. »Retina-Implantate. Neuroprothesen und das Versprechen auf Teilhabe.« AugenBlick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, (58): 100-111.
https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/2690
Reviews of Books & Exhibitions
Stock, R. 2022. Coreen McGuire 2020: Measuring difference, numbering normal. Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period und Jaipreet Virdi 2020: Hearing Happiness. Deafness Cures in History. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-021-00321-8
Stock, R. 2021. Kyle Devine: Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music. Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music, Kyle Devine, MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, 38 (1): 61-62.
https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/15803
Exhibitions
Büsse, M. (curator), de Visscher, E. (curator), Dean, M., Dierichs, D., Eder, M., Eigen, L., Guiducci, L., Hehemeyer-Cürten, J., Jalkh, H., Kycia, A., Mareis, C., Nyakatura, J. A., Rasehorn, F., Rešetar, I., Ribault, P., Sauer, C., Sauer, I., Schneider, M., Stock, R., Shone, J., Wenig, C. Design Lab #13. Material Legacies. Exhibition. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum of Decorative Arts. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 3 November 2022 - 26 February 2023.
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstgewerbemuseum/exhibitions/detail/design-lab-13/
Highlighted by TAZ, 15.11.2022.
Talks & Presentations
Stock, R. Sonic E-Mobility: Blindness and Mobility-Technology-Assemblages. Panel Presentation at the Conference Uncommon Senses III 2021, Session 2.2.4: SENSORY ALTERITY/CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES I. Montreal, Canada. Virtual. 7 May 2021.
https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/ucs3/en/uc3-2021/schedule/601/Session%202%202%204:%20SENSORY%20ALTERITY/CRITICAL%20DISABILITY%20STUDIES%20I
Stock, R., Schwesinger, S. Sounding Out the Anthropocene Ocean. Talk at the 25. Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference »Digital Matter«, Water As Medium. Berlin. 5 July 2009.
https://www.drha.uk/2021/
Events & Workshops
Cubasch, A. J., Cypko, M. A., Geoghegan, B., Miyazaki, S., Moeding, A., Müller-Birn, C., Stock, R. Automation, Control, and Incompetence. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 1 December 2022 - 2 December 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7904/automation-control-and-incompetence-socio-technical-ecologies-of-responsible-filtering-in-the-20th-and-21st-century
Bieling, T., Şahinol, M., Wiechern, A.-L., Stock, R. ANN: Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice. The third »Dis/Abilities and Digital Media« Network Meeting with an Interactive Maker Session. Virtual. 16 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/index.php/de/treffen-liste/120-3rd-meeting-access-and-tinkering
Stock, R., Dierichs, K., Bonavia, E., Zachow, S., Rodriguez, L., Le Calvé, M., Gholami, M. F., Kim, Y. Workshop »Sounding Invisible Boundaries. Experiments in Haptic Thinking«. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 2 June 2021.
Teaching & Courses
Razghandi, K., Mareis, C., Stock, R., Auger, J., Lockwood, J., Wenig, C., Norris, L., Stark, S., Weber, R., Bühn, S., Clark, J., le Calvé. M. »Frictioned Functionality: Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter«. »Dark Fluidity. An immersive exploration of liquid ontologies in practice along the multispecies material ecologies of the Schwärze river«. MoA's First Interdisciplinary Autumn School., Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter
Stock, R. Der Baum am Ende der Welt. Kultur- und wissensgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf Wälder und Holz im Schwarzen Anthropozän. Seminar, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 18 April 2022 - 18 July 2022.
Memberships
Stock, R. 2020 - 2023. Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media. Speaker.
https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/index.php/en/project