Human differentiation research
Trans- and posthumanism
Sociology of technology
Sociology of the body
Gender studies
Practice theory
11/2021 – 06/2025
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB-Teilprojekt “Posthumane Entdifferenzierung? Die technologische Optimierung menschlicher Körper” des DFG Sonderforschungsbereichs 1482 “Humandifferenzierung”, JGU Mainz
09/2019 – 10/2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im BMBF-Verbundprojekt “Zukunft materiell entwerfen. Prototypen als Kommunikationsmedien des Neuen”, JGU Mainz
10/2021 – 03/2025
Bachelor of Arts Publizistik, JGU Mainz
09/2019 – heute
Promotion Soziologie, JGU Mainz. Arbeitstitel: Cyborgs in der Gegenwart. Deutungen technologisch modifizierter Körper in öffentlichen Darstellungen.
10/2017 – 08/2019
Master of Arts Soziologie, JGU Mainz
10/2014 – 04/2017
Bachelor of Arts Soziologie und Theaterwissenschaften, JGU Mainz
10/2017 – 08/2019
Stipendiatin der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
“In my research, I deal with technologies for human bodies and explore the question of how technologically enhanced bodies are (re)interpreted. Do they appear to us as deficient or progressive? Are they understood as human or transhuman? How are different interpretations of the body produced? How do interpretations of the body vary according to context? My objects of investigation include wearables, exoskeletons, prostheses and implants. In my doctoral dissertation, I am specifically interested in media representations of technologically augmented bodies. Using PR representations of technology manufacturers and self-portrayals of users, I reconstruct which norms are conveyed in the idealized representations.”
2025
Garbe, T., Dickel, S., Thiel-Woznica, M. (2025). How the future is communicated. The complementary roles of words and things in the conveyance of urban air mobility visions. In: Time & Society.
2024
Garbe, T. (2024). The presentation of brain-computer interfaces as autonomy-enhancing therapy products. A mechanism to promote societal acceptance of implant technologies. In: Nano Ethics 18 (13), 1-15.
2023
Garbe, T. (2023). Enhancement als Weg zum posthumanen Körper? Über die Divergenzen der Körperdeutungen von Transhumanismus und gegenwärtigem Alltagsverständnis. In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 45 (3-4), 107-129.
09/2022
Being a cyborg as diversity management of prosthetic bodies – Technically modified bodies between exoticization, medicalization and normalization. At: DGS 2022, Bielefeld. With: Sascha Dickel.
09/2022
The present & future of living with prostheses. At: FUTUREBODY The Gathering, Berlin.
07/2022
Futures as linguistically composed expected presents. At: EASST 2022 Madrid. With: Marcel Woznica.
07/2022
On interpretive shifts of technically modified bodies. At: EASST 2022 Madrid.
05/2022
Un/doing Humanity? The outer limits of the human being as the subject of extended human differentiation research. In: Posthumanism. Transhumanism. Beyond the human? 7th Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Society. Karl-Franzens-University Graz. With: Sascha Dickel.
