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On skateboarding and embodied practice, the digitalization of institutions, migration between languages, and the slow work of becoming a writer. In English, German, and Portuguese.
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Movement, autonomy and pain I should call myself a phenomenological ethnographer, as most of my writings seem to start from subjective observational qualities. The qualia of back pain sets the tone today of a text where I want to talk...
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Naturalisation This post took a while. This March, I became a German citizen. Since then, my mind has entered an almost paralysing reflexive loop.
Note on Günter Dux † 9. Mai 2026 Günter Dux provoked one of the gravest changes in worldview I could have experienced in this lifetime....
AG-DMS Dez 2025 in Freiburg Die Digitalisierung der Verwaltung ist eine komplexe Aufgabe, wie die jahrelange Arbeit der Arbeitsgruppe DMS Baden-Württemberg zeigt. Seit ihrer Gründung...
Fear ex post They say Freud took inspiration from the Catholic ritual of confession to develop the methods of psychoanalysis. Conversation as a tool to...
Hermeto Pascoal † 13. September 2025 Hermeto Pascoal has left us, and I feel an emptiness that words can barely hold. He was more than...
A Reflection on Community in the skatepark Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about different group dynamics—both at work and during my free time at...
Hochschultag & D.velop Summmit 2025 On June 3rd, I had the pleasure of representing the University of Freiburg, as well as the DMS working group...
Freezing pause Apologies for the long pause in my skateboarding ethnography! I was on vacation, but that’s no excuse. A lot has happened in the...
Embracing the Ups and Downs of Skateboarding (Surf-)Skateboarding is a journey, not just a sport. Over the past few days, I’ve felt the exhilarating rush...
New LinkedIn Post Recently, I made the decision to publish posts on LinkedIn as part of my plan to engage with social media this year....