since 2021
Professor of Media Sociology and Social Theory, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2017-2021
Junior professor for Media Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2019
Visiting professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna (winter semester)

2016-2017
Academic staff member (substitute position), Institute of Philosophy, TU Darmstadt (winter semester)

2014-2017
Academic staff member, TUM School of Governance / Munich Center for Technology in Society, TU Munich

2012-2014
Academic staff member, Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin

2005-2006
Academic staff member, School of Sociology, teaching and research area Political Science, University of Bielefeld

since 2014
Fellow, Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin

2009-2012
Post-doctoral scholarship student, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld

Summer semester 2011
DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC (summer semester)

2006-2009
Doctoral scholarship holder, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst

2008
Fellow, School of Social Science, Cardiff University (winter semester)

2020
Positive mid-tenure review of the junior professorship

2019
Habilitation (venia legendi: Sociology), TU Munich

2010
Dr. phil., Sociology, University of Bielefeld

2006-2010
Doctoral candidate, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld

2005
Magister Artium, Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy of Law

2001-2005
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (major: Political Science; minors: Sociology, Philosophy of Law)

2000-2001
Philipps University of Marburg (Political Science, Sociology & Media Studies)

• Philosophy Book Prize 2014, Hanover Research Institute for Philosophy: “Enhancement Utopias”, laudatory speech by Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
• TTN Essay Prize 2013, Institute of Technics Department – Theology – Natural Sciences, LMU Munich: “Plea for a Post-Romantic Ecology”
• What if? visions of the information society, Science Year 2006, Telepolis magazine / Bayerischer Rundfunk: “Bionostalgia”
• Under 28, Merkur 2005 “The spectre of globalization”

2022-2024
Project manager, BMBF network
Development of a platform for the intelligent provision of knowledge for SMEs, neogramm GmbH & Co, JGU Mainz, KG, CaderaDesign GmbH, HPM Technologie GmbH, KRESS Fahrzeugbau GmbH
– Own sub-project: “Application-oriented social science-media-reflective integrated research and technology assessment”

2021-2025
Head of two subprojects, Collaborative Research Center CRC) funded by the German Research Foundation
– Own subproject C06: Posthuman de-differentiation. The technological optimization of human bodies
– Own subproject Ö (with T. Boll & B. Wihstutz): Responsive (cultural) science communication: mediation, dialog and resonance observation

2020-2023
The Evidence Culture of Citizen Science, sub-project DFG research unit Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice, Phase 2

2018-2021
Network leader, BMBF network
Designing the future materially. Prototypes as communication media of the new JGU Mainz with TUM, Deutsches Museum, FH Potsdam

2017-2019
Evidence in Citizen Science, sub-project DFG research unit Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice (with S. Maasen), TU Munich, Phase 1

2017-2018
Demonstrated suspicion of originality. A Brief Sociology of the Prototype in the Age of its Socialization, Volkswagen Foundation

2015-2017
TechnoCitizenScience. Citizen innovations in science and Technics Department, BMBF joint project TU Munich and KIT ITAS

2012
Zukunftsexpertise. On the generation, legitimization, use and recognition of future knowledge, working group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld

• SONA – Network Sociology of Sustainability (ed.) (2021): Sociology of Sustainability. Bielefeld: transcript free download
• Maasen, Sabine; Dickel, Sascha; Christoph Schneider (eds.) (2020): TechnoScienceSociety. Technological Reconfigurations of Science and Society (Sociology of the Sciences Year-book 30), Cham: Springer
• Heyen, Nils; Dickel, Sascha; Brüninghaus, Anne (eds.) (2019): Personal Health Science. Personal health knowledge between self-care and citizen science, Wiesbaden: Springer
• Dickel, Sascha (2019): Prototyping society. On the anticipatory technologization of social futures. Bielefeld: transcript free download
• Petschow, Ulrich; Ferdinand, Jan-Peter; Dickel, Sascha (eds.) (2016): The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation. 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development, Dordrecht: Springer
• Dickel, Sascha; Franzen, Martina; Kehl, Christoph (eds.) (2011): Herausforderung Biomedizin – Gesellschaftliche Deutung und soziale Praxis, Bielefeld: transcript
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): Enhancement-Utopias. Sociological analyses of the construction of the New Man, Baden-Baden: Nomos
• Steltemeier, Rolf; Dickel, Sascha; Gaycken, Sandro; Knobloch, Tobias (eds.) (2009): New Utopias. On the transformation of a genre, Heidelberg: Manutius

*= with peer review

• Lind, Miriam; Dickel, Sascha (2024): Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants. In: Convergence 30 (3), article 13548565231192100, pp. 1008-1024. DOI: 10.1177/13548565231192100.
• Dickel, Sascha (2023): The cybernetic view and its limits. On the system-theoretical self-description of the digital society. In: Berl. J. Soziol. 33 (3), pp. 197-226. DOI: 10.1007/s11609-022-00475-9.
• Lipp, Benjamin; Dickel, Sascha (2023): Interfacing the human/machine. In: Distinction: Journal of Social Theory 24 (3), pp. 425-443. DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2021.2012709.
• Dickel, Sascha (2022): The Imagination of Communication, Journal of Cultural Studies 16 (2), 143-160
• Lind, Miriam; Dickel, Sascha (2022): Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants, Convergence, article 13548565231192100, pp. 1-17. DOI: 10.1177/13548565231192100 (Online first)*.
• Dickel, Sascha; Kornehl, Karolin (2022): #selberdenken. The articulation of systemic mistrust and the claim to epistemic autonomy in the corona crisis, kommges 23 (1), 1-28*
• Dogruel, Leyla, Dickel, Sascha (2022): The communicativization of machines. Communication Studies 67 (4), 475-486*
• Dickel, Sascha (2022): The cybernetic view and its limits. On the system-theoretical self-description of the digital society, Berl. J. Soziol, 1-30. DOI: 10.1007/s11609-022-00475-8 (Online first)*
• Dickel, Sascha; Lipp, Benjamin (2022): Interfacing the human/machine, Distinction 23 (1), DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2021.2012709
• Dickel, Sascha; Neumann, Martin (2021): Hermeneutics of social simulations. On the interpretation of digitally generated narratives, Sozialer Sinn 22 (2), 353-387
• Dickel, Sascha (2021): When Technics Department learns to speak. Artificial communication as a cultural challenge of mediatized societies, TATuP 30 (3), 23-29
• Henkel, Anna; Barth, Thomas; Köhrsen, Jens; Wendt, Björn; Besio, Cristina; Block, Katharina; Böschen, Stefan; Dickel, Sascha; Görgen, Benjamin; Groß, Matthias; Rödder, Simone; Pfister, Thomas (2021): Intransparent arbitrariness or productive diversity? Contours of a Sociology of Sustainability. Commentary on the essay by Karl-Werner Brand. In: Leviathan 49 (2), 224-230
• Mahr, Dana; Dickel, Sascha (2020): Rethinking intellectual property rights and commons based peer production in times of crisis. The case of COVID19 and 3D printed medical devices, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Online First: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpaa124)
• Block, Katharina; Dickel, Sascha (2020): Beyond autonomy. The de/problematization of the subject in times of digitalization, Behemoth, 13 (1), 109-131*
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Post-social society. On the topicality of systems theory in times of digital communication, Soziale Welt (Sonderheft Digitale Sociology – Sociology des Digitalen), 46-59*.
• Dickel, Sascha (2020); Maasen, Sabine; Wenninger, Andreas: Sustainable transformation of science? Sociology and Sustainability 6 (1), 1-20*
• Köhrsen, Jens; Böschen, Stefan; Dickel, Sascha; Pfister, Thomas; Rödder, Simone; Böschen, Stefan; Wendt, Björn; Block, Katharina; Henkel, Anna (2019): Still Silent or an Emerging Field? Climate Change in Sociology, Current Sociology 68 (6), 738-760*
• Mahr, Dana; Dickel, Sascha (2019): Citizen science beyond invited participation. 19th century amateur naturalists, epistemic autonomy, and big data approaches avant la lettre, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2019) 41: 41. DOI: 10.1007/s40656-019-0280-z*
• Dickel, Sascha; Schneider, Christoph; Thiem, Carolin; Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Engineering Publics. The Different Modes of Civic Technoscience, Science & Technology Studies 32 (2), 8-23*
• Wenninger, Andreas; Dickel, Sascha (2019): Paradoxes of digital participatory science. On socio-epistemic boundary work in citizen science and science blogs, Austrian Journal of Sociology 44 (Suppl 1), 257-286*.
• Katharina Block, Karl-Werner Brand, Anna Henkel, Thomas Barth, Stefan Böschen, Sascha Dickel, Benjamin Görgen, Jens Köhrsen, Thomas Pfister, Björn Wendt (2019): Sociology of Sustainability. Between Transformation and Reflection, Sociology and Sustainability
• Wendt, Björn; Böschen, Stefan; Barth, Thomas; Henkel, Anna; Block, Katharina; Dickel, Sascha; Görgen, Benjamin; Köhrsen, Jens; Pfister, Thomas; Rödder, Simone; Schloßberger, Matthias (2018): “Second wave? Sociology of sustainability – from a spirit of optimism to crisis reflection, Sociology and Sustainability, Special Issue III, 1-23.
• Dickel, Sascha (2017): Becoming posthuman. On the dissolution of boundaries between man and machine, in: Widerspruch. Munich Journal for Philosophy, 66, 21-32
• Dickel, Sascha (2017): Opening up for all – redemption or erosion of the project of modern science? TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice 26 (1-2), 55-59*
• Dickel, Sascha (2017): Irritating objects. How the future is developed prototypically, Behemoth 10 (3), 171-190*
• Dickel, Sascha; Schrape, Jan-Felix (2017): The Renaissance of Techno-Utopianism as a Challenge for Responsible Innovation, in: Journal of Responsible Innovation 19 (2), 1-6*
• Dickel, Sascha (2017): Schrape, Jan-Felix: The Logic of Digital Utopianism, NanoEthics, Special Issue Visioneering, 11 (1), 47-58*
• Dickel, Sascha (2016): Trust in Technologies? Science after De-Professionalization, invited comment on Weingart, Peter; Guenther, Lars: Science Communication and the Issue of Trust, Journal of Science Communication, 15 (5), 1-7
• Dickel, Sascha (2016): Post-Technocracy. Precarious responsibility in digital contexts, Social Systems 19 (2), 282-303*
• Dickel, Sascha; Franzen, Martina (2016): The Problem of Extension revisited. New Modes of Digital Participation in Science, Journal of Science Communication 15 (1), 1-17*
• Dickel, Sascha (2016): The New Human – A (Technics) Utopian Upgrade. The transhuman dream of human enhancement, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 16-21
• Dickel, Sascha (2016): Between self-realization and self-marketing. On the social figure of the maker in the information economy, in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften (3/2016), 19-20
• Dickel, Sascha; Franzen, Martina (2015): Digital inclusion: On the social opening of the science system, Journal of Sociology 44 (5), 330-347*
• Dickel, Sascha (2015): Technological utopian futures in a technologized society, in: FIPH Journal (25), 1-4
• Dickel, Sascha; Schrape, Jan-Felix (2015): Decentralization, democratization, emancipation. On the architecture of digital technological utopianism, Leviathan 43 (3), 442-463*
• Dickel, Sascha; Ferdinand, Jan-Peter; Petschow, Ulrich (2014): Shared Machine Shops as Real-life Laboratories, Journal of Peer Production, (5), 1-20*
• Dickel, Sascha (2014): Paradoxical nature. A plea for a post-romantic Ecology, in: TTN edition 1/2014, 4-10*
• Dickel, Sascha (2013): On the dynamics of do-it-yourself. User-driven innovations for the green economy, in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften, (3/2013), 25-27
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): Transformation research beyond the ivory tower, in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften, (2/2013), 17-18
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): Jenseits der Gemeinschaft, diesseits der Gesellschaft, Wie der Kulturpessimismus die Wirklichkeit sozialer Medien verfehlt, in: Medienobservationen. http://www.medienobservationen.lmu.de/artikel/gesellschaft/gesellschaft_pdf/dickel_medien.pdf
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): “So it all comes down to the preservation and improvement of the dispositions”. On the semantics of eugenic enhancement utopias, Sozialer Sinn, 11 (2), pp. 29-53*
• Dickel, Sascha (2009): Revolt against death, in: Genethischer Informationsdienst (193), 21-23
• Albert, Mathias; Dickel, Sascha (2006): Educating Globality. On the learning field of international relations/globalization at Gymnasiums, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 13 (2), 261-274*
• Dickel, Sascha (2005): The spectre of globalization, in: Merkur, 59 (670), 173-175

*= with peer review

• Dickel, Sascha (2024): Enhancement. In: Markus Dederich and Jörg Zirfas (eds.): Optimization. An interdisciplinary handbook. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, pp. 351-356.
• Dickel, Sascha; Neumann, Martin (2024): Hermeneutics of social simulations. On the interpretation of digitally generated narratives. In: Martin Neumann (ed.): An interpretive account to agent-based social simulation. Using criminology to explore cultural possibilities. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 130-152.
• Neumann, Martin; Dirksen, Vanessa; Dickel, Sascha (2024): On the construction of plausible futures in interpretive agent-based modeling. In: Martin Neumann (ed.): An interpretive account to agent-based social simulation. Using criminology to explore cultural possibilities. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 170-188.
• Dickel, Sascha (2023): Prototyping Futures – Towards a Hermeneutics of Artefacts and Technologies. In: Armin Grunwald, Alfred
• Borrmann, Vera; Coenen, Christopher; Nordmann, Alfred; Cantoni, Roberto; Dickel, Sascha; Groves, Christopher et al. (2023): Future Conversations – A Topical Exchange. In: Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann and Martin Sand (eds.): Hermeneutics, History, and Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 42-72.
• Dickel, Sascha (2023): Prototyping Futures – Towards a Hermeneutics of Artefacts and Technologies. In: Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann and Martin Sand (eds.): Hermeneutics, History, and Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 157-171.
• Fuller, Steve; Nordmann, Alfred; Coenen, Christopher; Dickel, Sascha; Sand, Martin; Schomberg, René von (2023): Proactionary or Precautionary – A Debate. In: Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann and Martin Sand (eds.): Hermeneutics, History, and Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 131-153.
• Dickel, Sascha (2021): The dream factory. The staging of 3D printing as a revolutionary technology of (post-) industrial knowledge work, in: Maasen, Sabine; Atwood, David (eds.): Immanent Religion, Transcendent Technics Department. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 225-245
• Dickel, Sascha (2021): User Labs, in: Birgit Blättel-Mink, Alexander Ebner, Info Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler (eds.): Handbook of Innovation Research. Social science perspectives. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 1029-1043
• Hillerbrand, Rafaella; Dickel, Sascha (2021): Additive procedures (3D printing), in: Grunwald, Armin; Hillerbrand, Rafaella (eds.): Handbuch Technikethik, 2nd ed., 300-304
• Dickel, Sascha (2021): The “Technological Fix”. A critique of critical semantics. In: SONA – Network Sociology of Sustainability (ed.): Sociology of Sustainability. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 271-284*
• Dickel, Sascha; Schmidt-Jüngst, Miriam (2021): Equal people, unequal machines.
  The human differentiation of digital assistance systems and their users in advertising In: Dizdar, Hirschauer, Paulmann, Schabacher: Humandifferenzierung. Disciplinary perspectives and empirical explorations. Velbrück Science, 342-367 *
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Society also functions without bodies present. The crisis of interaction and the routines of mediatized sociality, in: Keitel, Christian; Volker, Michael; Werner, Karin: Die Corona-Gesellschaft. Analysis of the situation and perspectives for the future. Bielefeld: transcript (short form online: https://blog.transcript-verlag.de/gesellschaft-funktioniert-auch-ohne-anwesende-koerper/), 79-86
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Technoscientific Citizenship in Citizen Science. Assembling crowds for biomedical research, in: Sabine Maasen, Sascha Dickel, Christoph Schneider (eds.): TechnoScienceSociety. Technological Reconfigurations of Science and Society (Sociol-ogy of the Sciences Yearbook 30). Cham: Springer, 251-265*
• Maasen, Sabine; Dickel, Sascha; Schneider, Christoph (2020): TechnoScienceSociety. Techno-logical Reconfigurations of Science and Society – An Introduction, in: Sabine Maasen, Sascha Dickel, Christoph Schneider (eds.): TechnoScienceSociety. Technological Recon-figurations of Science and Society (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 30). Cham: Springer, 1-18
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Digital democratization? On the new structural change of the public sphere, in: Center for Applied European Studies (ed.): What does democracy mean in the EU in the 21st century? CAES publication series, volume 3, Frankfurt am Main, 46-59 https://fhffm.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/6178/file/Schriftenreihe_CAES_Band_3_Demokratie_WIPS.pdf
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Digital democratization? On the new structural change of the public sphere, in: Center for Applied European Studies (ed.): What does democracy mean in the EU in the 21st century? CAES publication series, volume 3, Frankfurt am Main, 46-59 https://fhffm.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/6178/file/Schriftenreihe_CAES_Band_3_Demokratie_WIPS.pdf
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Enhancement, in: Heßler, Martina; Liggieri, Kevin (eds.): Handbuch Technikanthropologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 403-410
• Dickel, Sascha (2020): Sociological systems theory. Sustainability as the preservation of an open future, in: Henkel, Anna; Barth, Thomas (eds.): 10 Minuten Nachhaltigkeit. Bielefeld: transcript, 33-46
• Wenninger, Andreas; Will, Fabienne; Dickel, Sascha; Maasen, Sabine; Trischler, Helmuth (2019): Inclusion and exclusion. Evidence practices in the anthropocene debate and citizen science, in: Zachmann, Karin; Ehlers, Sarah: Wissen und Begründen. Evidence as a contested resource in the knowledge society. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 31-58
• Lösch, Andreas; Böhle, Knud; Coenen, Christopher; Dobroc, Paulina; Ferrari, Arianna; Heil, Reinhard; Hommerich, Dirk; Sand, Martin; Schneider, Christoph; Aykut, Stefan; Fuchs, Daniela; Dickel, Sascha; Gransche, Bruno; Grunwald, Armin; Hausstein, Ale-xandra; Kastenhofer, Karen; Konrad, Kornelia; Nordmann, Alfred; Schaper-Rinkel, Pet-ra; Scheer, Dirk; Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo; Torgersen, Helge; Wentland, Alexander: Technology Assessment of Socio-Technical Futures – A Discussion Paper, in: Lösch, Andreas; Grunwald, Armin; Meister, Martin; Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo (2019): Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present. Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 285-308
• Katharina Block, Karl-Werner Brand, Anna Henkel, Thomas Barth, Stefan Böschen, Sascha Dickel, Benjamin Görgen, Jens Köhrsen, Thomas Pfister, Björn Wendt: Sociolo-gie der Nachhaltigkeit. Between Transformation and Reflection, in: Nicole Burzan (ed.) (2019): Complex Dynamics of Global and Local Developments. Proceedings of the 39th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Göttingen 2018, 1-14
• Maasen, Sabine; Dickel, Sascha: Normative answers – epistemic questions. Updating the science-society contract, in: Canzler, Weert; Kuhlmann, Stefan; Simon, Dagmar (eds.)(2019): Handbook of Science and Public Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 49-66*
• Dickel, Sascha (2019): “The ossified humanistic skeleton…” improve, expand, break, replace. An introduction to the isms of human self-overcoming. Review of: Janina Loh: Trans- and Posthumanism. Eine Einführung, Hamburg 2018, 224 p., in: Alexander Friedrich, Petra Gehring, Christoph Hubig, Andreas Kaminski, Alfred Nordmann (eds.), Baden-Baden: Nomos, 217-222
• Dickel, Sascha (2019): User Labs, in: Birgit Blättel-Mink, Alexander Ebner, Info Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler (eds.): Handbook of Innovation Research. Social science perspectives. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 1-15*
• Dickel, Sascha (2019): Infrastructure, interface, intelligence. On the media-technological condition of digital socialization, in: Nils Heyen, Sascha Dickel, Anne Brüninghaus (eds.): Personal Health Science. Personal health knowledge between self-care and citizen science, Wiesbaden: Springer, 219-239
• Heyen, Nils; Dickel, Sascha (2019): What is personal health science? in: Nils Heyen, Sascha Dickel, Anne Brüninghaus (eds.): Personal Health Science. Personal health knowledge between self-care and citizen science, Wiesbaden: Springer, 1-19
• Dickel, Sascha (2018): The New Human – A (Technics) Utopian Upgrade. The transhuman dream of human enhancement, in: APuZ-Redaktion (Ed): The New Human. Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education, 85-95
• Dickel, Sascha; Thiem, Carolin (2017): On the organization of work 4.0: crowdsourcing as a social technology? in: Jens Wulfsberg, Tobias Redlich, Manuel Moritz (eds.): Vernetzt – Dezentral – Kollaborativ. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the future of value creation. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, 247-254*
• Dickel, Sascha; Thiem, Carolin (2017): Ordered masses. Towards a theory of crowdsourcing, in: Stephan Lessenich (ed.) 2017: Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Proceedings of the 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bamberg 2016
• Dickel, Sascha; Lipp, Benjamin (2016): Systems theory and critique of technology, in: Kolja Möller, Jasmin Siri (eds.): Systemtheorie und Gesellschaftskritik. Perspectives on Critical Systems Theory, Bielefeld: transcript, 151-167*
• Dickel, Sascha; Ferdinand, Jan-Peter; Petschow, Ulrich (2016): The Multiple Applications of 3D Printing: Between Maker Movements and the Future of Manufacturing, in: Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow, Sascha Dickel (eds.): The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation. 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development, Dordrecht: Springer
• Dickel Sascha (2016): Utopian technologies in technologized societies, in: Konrad Paul Liessmann (ed.): Neue Menschen! Forming, optimizing, perfecting, Munich: Zsolnay / Deuticke, 101-115
• Maasen, Sabine; Dickel, Sascha: Partizipation, Responsivität, Verantwortung (2016). Zur Realfiktion eines neuen Gesellschaftsvertrags, in: Dagmar Simon, Andreas Knie, Stefan Hornbostel (eds.): Handbuch Wissenschaftspolitik, Wiesbaden: VS, 225-242*
• Dickel, Sascha: Nature in crisis. The technization of the living world and the antiquatedness of bioconservative criticism of technology, in: Diego Compagna (ed.) (2015): Life between nature and culture. On the renegotiation of nature and culture in the Technics Department and life sciences, Bielefeld: transcript, 45-71*
• Dickel, Sascha; Frewer, Andreas (2014): Life Extension. Eternal Debates on Immortality, in: Robert Ranisch, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (eds.): Post- and Transhumanism. An Introduction, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 119-131*
• Dickel, Sascha (2014): Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism, in: Miriam Eilers, Katrin Grüber, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (eds.): The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability. New Bodies for a Better Life? Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 227-244*
• Dickel, Sascha (2014): The regulation of the future. “Emerging Technologies” and the Problem of Excluding the Speculative, in: Alfons Bora, Anna Henkel, Carsten Reinhardt (eds.): Wissensregulierung und Regulierungswissen, Weilerswist: Velbrück, 201-218*
• Dickel, Sascha (2013): Beyond Cynicism? Climate Engineering Technologies and Vegan Diets as Alternative Solutions for Climate Change, in: Achim Maas, Bodo Balazs, Roger Roffey, Irina Comardicea and Clementine Burnley (eds.): Global Environmental Change: New Drivers for Resistance, Crime and Terrorism? Baden-Baden: Nomos, 243-259*
• Dickel, Sascha (2012): In the network of self-reference. Facebook-Kommunikation als Antwort auf die “Katastrophe” des Internet, in: Ulrich Dolata, Jan-Felix Schrape (eds.): Internet, Mobile Devices und die Transformation der Medien. Radical change as gradual reconfiguration, Berlin: edition sigma, 331-356*
• Dickel, Sascha (2012): The obsolete body? Technics Department as the Present of Human Nature, in: Armin Grunwald, Justus von Hartlieb (eds.): Ist Technics Department die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur? Hanover: Wehrhahn, 94-103
• Dickel, Sascha (2012): Utopian Critique. Zur Krise einer Semantik, in: Hans-Georg Soeffner (ed.): Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Proceedings of the 35th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Frankfurt am Main 2010, Wiesbaden: VS, 1-10 (CD-ROM).
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): Seduction to transgress boundaries. Liberal utopias of enhancement, in: Sascha Dickel, Martina Franzen, Christoph Kehl (eds.): Herausforderung Biomedizin – Gesellschaftliche Deutung und soziale Praxis, Bielefeld: transcript, 251-166
• Dickel, Sascha (2011): Dissolution of the boundaries of feasibility? Biopolitical utopias of enhancement, in: Peter Böhlemann, Almuth Hattenbach, Lars Klinnert, Peter Markus (eds.): Der machbare Mensch? Modern Brain Research, Biomedical Enhancement and the Christian Image of Man, Berlin / Münster: Lit, 75-84
• Dickel, Sascha (2009): Utopische Positionierungen – Vorüberlegungen zu einer Wissenssoziologie des Utopischen am Beispiel populärwissenschaftlicher Enhancement-Visionenen, in: Rolf Steltemeier, Sascha Dickel, Sandro Gaycken, Tobias Knobloch (eds.): Neue Utopien. On the transformation of a genre, Heidelberg: Manutius, 169-200
• Steltemeier, Rolf; Dickel, Sascha; Gaycken, Sandro; Knobloch, Tobias: Introduction, in: Rolf Steltemeier, Sascha Dickel, Sandro Gaycken, Tobias Knobloch (eds.) (2009): New Utopias. On the transformation of a genre, Heidelberg: Manutius, 8-17
• Dickel, Sascha (2009): Willingness to learn as a norm. Reflections on the structure of the knowledge society, in: Michael Klein (ed.): Die Zukunft des Wissens: Eine transdisziplinäre Diskussion über den Aufbruch in die Wissensgesellschaft, Frankfurt: Institute for New Media, 6-15
• Dickel, Sascha (2008): “Big brother is not watching you”. The presence of the absent society in Vincenzo Natali’s “Cube”, in: Jan A. Fuhse (ed.): Technics Department and Society in Science Fiction, Münster: Lit, 159-174
• Dickel, Sascha (2008): Control or evolution? Enhancement as a biopolitical conflict, in: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (ed.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the German Sociology Association in Kassel 2006, Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus, 2314-2325