Josef Barla
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"Reality is an active verb, and the nouns all seem to be gerunds with more appendages than an octopus. Through their reaching into each other, through their ‘prehensions’ or graspings, beings constitute each other and themselves. Beings do not preexist their relatings. ‘Prehensions’ have consequences. The world is a knot in motion." 
—Donna Haraway
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I am a Postdoc Researcher in the Biotechnologies, Nature and Society Research Group based at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. My current interdisciplinary research focuses on the relationship between society and technology, the production biovalue and economization of Nature in synthetic biology,  the role of technologies of anticipation, and new materialist methodologies.

I am PI of the German Research Foundation (DFG) research training group "Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies" based at Goethe University Frankfurt. I am also heading the Thyssen Foundation research project "Ensuring Public Health Through Mobilizing Death".

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