A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in occupied Oleshky, where residents report severe shortages of food and medicine, widespread mining, and constant drone threats. Interviews with civilians and former residents describe isolated communities struggling to survive, with few possibilities for evacuation as winter approaches… Read more
Prof. Jutta Weber’s chapter “War Matrix: Masculine Hegemony, Martial Epistemology and Experimental AI Warfare” examines the gendered and epistemic foundations of contemporary AI-driven warfare. The contribution critically analyzes how experimental forms of AI warfare are embedded in broader structures of military power, technological innovation, and hegemonic knowledge production.
In the article “Der neue KI-Rüstungs-Komplex”, Prof. Jutta Weber examines the rapid emergence of a new military-technological ecosystem driven by artificial intelligence, data science, and drone technologies. The contribution critically discusses how AI-centered defence start-ups and accelerated innovation logics are reshaping contemporary warfare while challenging democratic oversight, legal accountability, and existing forms of regulation.
The work “Contaminated Creativities: Coercion, Creativity, and the Human Cost of Military Drone Infrastructures in Wartime Ukraine” was presented at the Swedish STS Conference 2026 in Malmö by PD Dr. Olga Matveieva. The presentation was based on interviews with Ukrainian military drone operators and explored the improvised infrastructures of drone warfare.
The essay, published in the Handbook on Digital Criminology (edited by Mareile Kaufmann and Heidi Mork Lomell) in 2025, addresses the question of how algorithm-based machines exert agency and create worlds of their own.