Robert Feustel

Robert Feustel (* 1979 in Dresden ) is a German political scientist and journalist .

Life

Feustel studied political science and modern history at the University of Leipzig and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid . In 2012 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the cultural history of intoxication. From 2006 to 2016 he was a lecturer and employee at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Leipzig. Since 2017 he has been a research assistant in the PODESTA project in the sociology of knowledge and social theory department at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Feustel's focus is on political theory and the history of science . He researches digitization , right-wing populism , urban development , as well as drugs and intoxication . He occasionally publishes in regional and national newspapers and appears as an expert on right-wing populist language and demagogy.

The “Dictionary of the Worried Citizen”, which he published together with Nancy Grochol, Tobias Prüwer and Franziska Reif in 2016, explains right-wing populist terms such as “Bahnhofsklatscher”, “Invasionsarmee” or “Verschwulung” in the form of a dictionary . The book was very well received, also in the media, wrote the Tagesspiegel , for example , that the book was “highly topical because the regulars' table has gained more influence in the age of the Internet.” Arte said: “Who wants to know how concerned citizens are tick, must understand their language. The 'dictionary' helps a lot. "

Fonts (selection)

• "In the beginning there was information". Digitization as religion , Verbrecher Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-9573-2369-9
• Handbook drugs in a social and cultural science perspective (edited together with Henning Schmidt-Semisch and Ulrich Bröckling ), Springer VS 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-22138-6
• Dictionary of the concerned citizen (edited together with Nancy Grochol, Tobias Prüwer and Franziska Reif), Ventil Verlag 2016, second edition 2017, third expanded edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-95575-088-6
• The art of moving. Deconstruction for beginners, Fink Verlag 2015 ISBN 978-3-7705-5857-5
• “A suit made of electricity”. LSD, cybernetics and the psychedelic revolution , Springer VS 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09575-8
• Border crossings. Cultures of Intoxication since the Renaissance , Fink Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5475-1
• We have never been active. Interpassivity between art and social criticism (Ed. Together with Hagen Schölzel and Nico Koppo), Kadmos 2011, ISBN 978-3-86599-138-6
• Between language game and method. Perspektiven der Diskursanalyse (Ed. Together with Maximilian Schochow), transcript Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1429-9
• Think the political. Contemporary positions (edited together with Ulrich Bröckling ), transcript Verlag 2010, second edition 2011, third edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1160-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Feustel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Feustel's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the PODESTA project site
2. ↑ A lexicon decodes the language of the angry citizens. Retrieved January 4, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Concerned Citizen's Dictionary: How Populists Speak. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .