The workshop "The Use of Implants in Ethical Surveillance Infrastructures: Towards a Transdisciplinary Ontology" will take place 3-5 September, 2008, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld. The workshop was organized by Kirstie Ball, Torin Monahan, David Murakami Wood, Karsten Weber and me. You find will the (preliminary) program and additional information here.

We (Christian Hoffstadt and me) have just been noted that our paper on “You’re too fuckin’ metal for your own good!” Controlled anger and the expression of intensity and authenticity in post-modern Heavy Metal has been accepted at the 1st Global Conference on Heavy Fundamentalism (Salzburg, 3-5.11.2008).