Dr. Franz Xavier Barrios Suvelza

• since May 2021: wiss. Employee in the project "A Democrtic State of Exception" (Volkswagen Foundation) at the professorship for political theory (University of Erfurt)

Friedrich Schiller Universityt Jena

• December 2018 - April 2021: research employee at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Jena

University of Erfurt

• January 2017 - May 2019: Christoph Martin Wieland scholarship holder (postdoctoral researcher) at the professorship for political theory at the University of Erfurt (Prof. Dr. André Brodocz)
• September 2014 - December 2016: research employee for Sociology at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences of the University of Erfurt
• April 2013 - August 2014: adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
• September 2014 - December 2016: research employee for Sociology at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences of the University of Erfurt
• April 2013 - August 2014: adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.

University of Lund:

• May - October 2013: scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science with research stays at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Prof. Dr. Robert Pfaller) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gijs van Oenen)
• October 2012 - March 2013: Associate Researcher in the project NEMO: New Media, Modern Democracy at the Institute for Strategic Communication, Lund University/Campus Helsingborg in Sweden.

University of Leipzig

• 2011 - 2012: Adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Political Science- 2011: Doctor of Political Science (Dr. rer. pol.). Title of dissertation Guerrilla Communication. Genealogy of a political form of conflict. Expert reports: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Zerfaß (University of Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bröckling (University of Freiburg). Overall grade: Magna cum laude.
• - 2006 - 2011: Research employee at the professorship for communication management in politics and economics (Prof. Dr. Ansgar Zerfaß)
• - 2004 - 2006: Student and research assistant at the Chair for Analysis and Comparison of Political Systems (Prof. Dr. Christian Fenner)

  - 2004: Magister artium (M.A.) in Political Science and Medieval and Modern History at the University of Leipzig. Title of the M.A. thesis: Policy Advice in the Area of Conflict between Media and Politics. The Functions of the Commission 'Modern Services in the Labor Market' in Historical and Theoretical Perspective. Expert reports: PD Dr. Andreas Anter and Prof. Dr. Christian Fenner. Overall grade: very good.

University of Strasbourg/France

• 2002: Certificat d'Etudes Politiques Européennes (C.E.P.E.) within the framework of an Erasmus study Institut d'Etudes Politiques (SciencesPo), overall grade: Mention Assez Bien

• Conflict and cooperation
• Public sphere, protest and strategic communication
• political collectivity, statehood and digitalization
• actor-network theory and discourse theory
• non-standard qualitative methods

Books

• Schölzel, H. (Ed.) (2019): The great Leviathan and actor-network worlds. Statehood and political collectivity in the thought of Bruno Latour. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019.

• Buhr, L., Hammer, S. & Schölzel, H. (Eds.) (2018): State, internet and digital governmentality. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018.

• Schölzel, H. (2013): Guerrilla communication. Genealogy of a political form of conflict, Bielefeld: transcript.

• Feustel, R., Koppo, N. & Schölzel, H. (Eds.) (2011): We have never been active. Interpassivity between Arts and Social Criticism. Berlin: Kadmos, 2011.

Journal articles

• Buhr, L. & Schölzel, H. (2020): "Collectivity Effects and Methexis in a Digital Society," in Journal of Cultural and Collective Studies, 6 (1), pp. 243-268.
• Schölzel, H. (2017): "Backing away from circles of control. A re-reading of interpassivity theory's persepctives on the current political culture of participation", in Empedocles. European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 8 (2), pp. 187-203.
• Schölzel, H. (2017): "The composition of political publics. Contours of a sociology of communication and media in the work of Bruno Latour and actor-network theory", in Media & Communication Studies, 65 (2), pp. 313-329.
• Philipps, A., Schölzel, H. & Richter, R. (2016): "Defaced election posters: Between culture jamming and moral outrage. A case study," in Communication, Politics & Culture, 49 (1), pp. 86-110.
• Schölzel, H. & Nothhaft, H. (2016): "The establishment of facts in public discourse: Actor-Network-Theory as a methodological approach in PR-research", in Public Relations Inquiry, 5 (1), pp. 53-69.
• Schölzel, H. (2014), "Surrealistic communication as symbolic terrorism. The example of Marcel Mariën's theory of political campaigning", in Public Relations Inquiry, 3 (2), pp. 193-207.
• Koppo, N. & Schölzel, H. (2009): "Cooperative policy advice without power-political calculation?", in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 50 (1), pp. 86-104.

Book chapter

• Schölzel, H. (2021): "The Construction of Legitimate Publics. On contemporary crisis diagnoses, the theory of actor-network publics, and the global warming controversy", in Protest Communication. Conflicts over the Legitimacy of Political Public Spheres, ed. by Cornelia Hahn & Andreas Langenohl, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 31-56.
• Schölzel, H. (2020): "From Discourse Intervention to Public Controversies," in Discourse Intervention. Normative standards of critique and practical perspectives on cultivating public discourse, ed. by Friedemann Vogel & Fabian Deus, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 55-67.
• Schölzel, H. (2019): "The Politics of Communication Controlling. On a conceptual infrastructure for the management of publics", in Infrastructuring Publics, ed. by Matthias Korn, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl & David Sittler, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 243-264.
• Schölzel, H. (2019): "From the illusion of Leviathan to the phantom of the public sphere. Bruno Latour's Theory of Political Collectivity," in The Great Leviathan and Actor-Network Worlds. Statehood and Political Collectivity in the Thought of Bruno Latour, ed. by Hagen Schölzel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 175-199.
• Schölzel, H. (2019): "Actor-network collectives as an exit from Hobbes' Leviathan. An Introduction to Bruno Latour's Understanding of State and Politics," in The Great Leviathan and Actor-Network Worlds. Statehood and Political Collectivity in Bruno Latour's Thought, ed. by Hagen Schölzel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 9-27.
• Schölzel, H. (2019): "Michel Foucault and the Question of Political Ontology(s)," in Foucault and the Political. Transdisciplinary Impulses for Contemporary Political Theory, ed. by Oliver Marchart & Renate Martinsen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 235-254.
• Buhr, L. & Schölzel, H. (2018): "Introduction: state, internet and digital governmentality," in State, Internet and Digital Governmentality, ed. by Lorina Buhr, Stefanie Hammer & Hagen Schölzel, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 1-15.
• Schölzel, H. (2016): "The political as communication practice. On interventions of 'communication guerrilla' in 'cultural grammar', in The Other Side of Politics. Theories of Cultural Construction of the Political, ed. by Wilhelm Hofmann & Renate Martinsen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 33-53.
• Schölzel, H. & Nothhaft, H. (2016): "'Swarming' for democracy: Karl-Theodor Guttenberg's plagiarism case, the court of public opinion and the parliament of things", in Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy. The challenge of the digital naturals, ed. by W. Timothy Coombs, Jesper Falkheimer, Mats Heide & Philip Young, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 106-118.
• Schölzel, H. & Nothhaft, H. (2015), "Strategic public relations versus public values? The 'swarming' of German defence minister zu Guttenberg", in Public Relations, Values and Cultural Identity, ed. by Enric Ordeix, Valérie Carayol & Ralph Tench, Brussels et al: Peter Lang, pp. 163-178.
• Nothhaft, H. & Schölzel, H. (2015): "(Re-)Reading Clausewitz: The Strategy Discourse and its Implications for Strategic Communication", in The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication, ed. by Derina Holtzhausen & Ansgar Zerfaß, New York/London: Routledge, pp. 18-33.
• Feustel, R., Koppo, N. & Schölzel, H. (2011), "We have never been active. Interpassivity between Arts and Social Criticism", in We have never been active. Interpassivity between Arts and Social Criticism, ed. by Robert Feustel, Nico Koppo and Hagen Schölzel, Berlin: Kadmos, pp. 7-16.
• Feustel, R. & Schölzel, H. (2011), "Beyond Action and Operation. On the Relationship between Interpassivity and Simulation," in We Have Never Been Active. Interpassivity between Arts and Social Criticism, ed. by Robert Feustel, Nico Koppo and Hagen Schölzel, Berlin: Kadmos, pp. 207-220.
• Schölzel, H. (2010), "Military Rhetoric and Artistic Practice. Remarks on Guerrilla Communication in Politics," in Political Communication. Beiträge zur politischen Bildung, ed. by Robert Grünewald, Ralf Güldenzopf and Melanie Piepenschneider, Berlin: LIT, pp. 79-91.
• Schölzel, H. (2010), "Spielräume der Wissenschaft. Discourse analysis and genealogy in Michel Foucault", in Zwischen Sprachspiel und Methode. Perspectives on discourse analysis, ed. by Robert Feustel and Maximilian Schochow, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 17-32.F
• eustel, R. & Schölzel, H. (2010): 'Jean Baudrillard: The artificial paradises of the political', in Thinking the Political. Contemporary Positions, ed. by Ulrich Bröckling and Robert Feustel, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 295-312.
• Schölzel, H. (2008), "Courage for the gap? Resistance in the French Parliament read with Giddens and Foucault", in Thinking Resistance. Michel Foucault and the Limits of Power, ed. by Daniel Hechler and Axel Philipps, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 117-133.

Translations

• Arjen Kleinherenbrink & Sjoerd van Tuinen, "The Repoliticized State," in The Great Leviathan and Actor-Network Worlds. Statehood and Political Collectivity in the Thought of Bruno Latour, ed. by Hagen Schölzel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019, pp. 29-54.
• Graham Harman, "'Hobbes was wrong!' Latour's Political Philosophy between Truth and Power," in The Great Leviathan and Actor-Network Worlds. Statehood and Political Collectivity in the Thought of Bruno Latour, ed. by Hagen Schölzel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019, pp. 201-207.John Ch
• eney-Lippold, "Jus Algoritmi. How the National Security Agency Reinvented Citizenship," in State, Internet, and Digital Governmentality, ed. by Lorina Buhr, Stefanie Hammer & Hagen Schölzel, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018, pp. 211-238.
• Bruno Latour: attempt at a compositionist manifesto, in Journal of Theoretical Sociology (ZTS), 2 (1), 2013, pp. 8-30.

Encyclopedia articles, reviews, other publications (selection).

• Schölzel, H. (2020): "PR, Punk, or Provincial: How Corona Research (Doesn't) Excite the Public," in Discourse Monitor. Online platform for elucidating and documenting strategic communication, July 23, 2020.
• Schölzel, H. (2020): "The Corona Crisis as a Democratic State of Emergency?", in: Discourse Monitor. Online platform for clarification and documentation of strategic communication, April 17, 2020.
• Schölzel, H. (2020): "Guerrilla Communication," in: Discourse Monitor. Online platform for the elucidation and documentation of strategic communication, April 17, 2020.
• Dos Reis, F. & Schölzel, H. (2017): Review, "Articulations at the Heart of the State. Buno Latour's discussion of law and its reception in German and English", in Journal of Political Theory, 8 (2), pp. 291-298.
• Schölzel, H. (2016): "Actor-Network Theory," in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation, ed. by Craig E. Carroll, Los Angeles et al: Sage, pp. 14-16.
• Phillips, A. & Schölzel, H. (2013): 'Alienated election posters in Leipzig's 2013 mayoral election. An exploratory study', LFS Working Paper No. 6, January 2013.
• Schölzel, H. (2013): "Guerillakommunikation", in Lexikon Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, ed. by Günter Bentele, Hans-Bernd Brosius and Otfried Jarren, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 111-112.
• Schölzel, H. (2010): Review, "Pias, Claus (ed.). Abwehr. Modelle Strategien Medien, Bielefeld 2009," in Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization, 3 (1), pp. 174-179.
• Schölzel, H. (2009): Review: Sarasin, Philipp. Darwin and Foucault. History and Genealogy in the Age of Biology, Frankfurt am Main 2009, in: Kritikon. Reviews in Philosophy, 10.07.2009.