Andreas Folkers
critical theories, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology (political, economic, environmental), biopolitics, infrastructure, energy
Andreas studied Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the New School for Social Research, New York. From 2011 to 2018 he was research associate at the Sociology Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt and received a PhD stipend from the German National Academic Foundation (2011 to 2014). He defended his PhD in Sociology at the Goethe-University in 2017. After that he worked as a post-doc at the Sociology Department at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen (2018 to 2024). During his time in Gießen he was PI of two research projects on »Symbiotic Collectives« funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2018 to 2020) and on climate risks in finance (2020 to 2024). He held several fellowships and visiting scholarships at the New School in 2013, the Max-Weber Centre in Erfurt (2018, 2024 to 2025), the London School of Economics (2022), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2022 to 2023). In 2023 he received the Research Award of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen for his habilitation project »Fossil Modernity«. Since 2024 he is member of the Research Council of the IfS. Starting in 2025 he will be a Marie Curie Fellow at the IfS and Columbia University, New York.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Risking carbon capital: Reporting infrastructures and the making of financial climate risks, in: Economy & Society 53(3), 504–526.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Calculative futures between climate and finance: A tragedy of multiple horizons, in: Sociological Review 72(4).
Folkers, Andreas 2021: Fossil Modernity. The Materiality of Acceleration, Slow Violence, and Reclaimed Temporalities, in: Time & Society 30(2), 223–246.
Folkers, Andreas 2018: Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz. Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus.
Folkers, Andreas 2016: Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, in: Theory, Culture & Society 33(1), 3–28.
Folkers, Andreas 2018: Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz. Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Frankfurt am Main und New York: Campus.
Folkers, Andreas and Andreas Langenohl (eds.) 2020: Ambivalenzen sorgender Sicherheit, Special Issue: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization 13(2).
Folkers, Andreas and Sven Opitz (eds.) 2020: Symbiose als soziologisches Konzept - Biosoziale Randgänge der Theorie, Special Issue: Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie 9(2).
Folkers, Andreas and Thomas Lemke (eds.) 2014: Biopolitik. Ein Reader. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Klimawandel, in: Ulrich Bröckling, Thomas Lemke und Susanne Krasmann (Ed.): Glossar der Gegenwart 2.0. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 197–207.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Risking carbon capital: Reporting infrastructures and the making of financial climate risks, in: Economy & Society 53(3), 504–526.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Calculative futures between climate and finance: A tragedy of multiple horizons, in: Sociological Review 72(4).
Folkers, Andreas and Sven Opitz 2022: Fixing the symbiotic planet. Climate change, microbial metabolism, and the quest for the low-carbon cow, in: Social Studies of Science 52(3), 330–352.
Folkers, Andreas 2022: Nach der Nachhaltigkeit. Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne, in: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften 50(2), 239–262.
Folkers, Andreas 2021: Fossil Modernity. The Materiality of Acceleration, Slow Violence, and Reclaimed Temporalities, in: Time & Society 30(2), 223–246.
Folkers, Andreas 2021: Preventing the Unpreparable. Catastrophe Thresholds from Covid to Climate, in: Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate 15(3), 85–106.
Folkers, Andreas 2020: Eine Genealogie sorgender Sicherheit. Sorgeregime von der Antike bis zum Anthropozän, in: Behemoth. A Journal of Civilization 13(2), 16–39.
Folkers, Andreas and Sven Opitz 2020: Symbiosozialität. Zwischen Leben und Gesellschaft, in: Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie, Februar, 238–259.
Folkers, Andreas 2020: Air-appropriation. The imperial origins and legacies of the Anthropocene, in: European Journal of Social Theory 23(4), 611–630.
Folkers, Andreas 2019: Freezing time, preparing for the future. The stockpile as a temporal matter of security, in: Security Dialogue 50(6), 493–511.
Folkers, Andreas and Julian Stenmanns 2019: Logistical resistance against the operations of capital. Security and opposition in supply chains and finance, in: Geoforum 100, 199–208.
Folkers, Andreas 2017: Politik des Lebens jenseits seiner selbst. Für eine ökologische Lebenssoziologie mit Deleuze und Guattari, in: Soziale Welt 68(4), 365–384.
Folkers, Andreas 2017: Existential Provisions – The Technopolitics of Public Infrastructure, in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(5), 855–874.
Folkers, Andreas 2017: Continuity and catastrophe: Business continuity management and the security of financial operations, in: Economy and Society 46(1), 103–127.
Folkers, Andreas und Nadine Marquardt 2016: Tent, in: Mark Salter (ed.): Making things international II: Catalysts and Reactions, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 63–78.
Folkers, Andreas 2016: Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, in: Theory, Culture & Society 33(1), 3–28.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Carbon Bombs, Workshop Reluctant Decarbonization and the Militant Petrostate, Central European University, Vienna.
Folkers, Andreas 2024: Environironmental Responsibility. Pollution, Information, Ethics, Ecological Emergencies Lecture Series, Barcelona University.
Folkers, Andreas 2023: Polluted Property. Fossil fuels between finance and law, Climate Jurisprudence Workshop, Sciences Po Paris.
Folkers, Andreas 2023: Staying with the Rubble. Residual Reification and Reparative Critique., Futuring Critical Theory Conference, Institute for Social Research, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Folkers, Andreas 2023: Planetary Urbanization, Absentee Ownership, and the Distribution of Climate Risks., Workshop »Remoteness and proximity: climate change in the city«, Helsinki University, June.
Folkers, Andreas, Lynne Huffer and Timothy Mitchell 2023: Climate Crisis Politics (Interview), in: Institute Letters, Institute for Advanced Study, Spring, 14–15.
Folkers, Andreas 2023: Energieexzess. Die Geoökonomie fossiler Brennstoffe, in: Dritte Natur. Technik – Kapital – Umwelt, January, 60–73.
Folkers, Andreas 2023: Greenwishing. The cruel optimism of sustainability, in: Perspecta. Yale Architectural Journal 55, Cambridge, MIT Press.
Folkers, Andreas 2020: Kritische Infrastruktur, in: Arch+. Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus 53(7), 103–109.
Folkers, Andreas and Sven Opitz 2020: Me, Microbe, and I – Warum wir uns mit den Bakterien in uns dringend versöhnen müssen, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly, February, 108–113.
Folkers, Andreas and Alain Pottage 2021: Appropriocene. Property Relations in the Anthropocene. Workshop am Sciences Po Paris, December.
Folkers, Andreas, Katharina Block and Katharina Hoppe 2021: Die ökologische Frage. Herausforderungen für die soziologische Theorie. Tagung der Sektion Soziologische Theorie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), January.
Folkers, Andreas and Andreas Langenohl 2019: Ambivalenzen sorgender Sicherheit. Ökonomie, Politik, Ethik. Workshop at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, November.
Folkers, Andreas and Sven Opitz 2019: Symbiose als soziologisches Konzept – Biosoziale Randgänge der Theorie. Workshop at Marburg University, October.
Folkers, Andreas, Bernhard Kleeberg and Ute Tellmann 2018: Workshop: Tracing contemporary metabolisms – Historicizing ecological epistemologies. Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt University.
2025–2028: The Technopolitics of Negative Emissions Technologies (funded by the European Union; Marie-Curie »global Fellowship«).
(ongoing) Fossil Modernity. A natural history of the present (book project) Supported by Fellowships at the IAS Princeton (2022–2023) and the MWK Erfurt (2024–2025); awarded with the Research award of the JLU-Gießen (2023). Book under contract with Zone, Princeton University Press.
2020–2024 Carbon Bubble and Stranded Assets (2020–2024, funded by the DFG).
2018–2020 Symbiotische Kollektive. Die Kultivierung mikrobieller Lebenswelten als Gestaltung bio-sozialer Beziehungen, funded by Volkswagen-Foundation, initiative »Originalitätsverdacht« Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften. Funding line: Konstellationen (together with Sven Opitz).
2011–2016: Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz (PhD project; funded by the German National Academic Foundation (2011–2014) and a publication grant by the DFG (2017).
