Timo Seidl, B.A. M.A. MRes PhD
Publications
Thesis
Seidl, Timo (2021) Ideas, Politics, and Technological Change: Essays on the Comparative Political Economy of Digital Capitalism. Dissertation European University Institute. PDF.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Seidl, T. (2024). Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech World. Geopolitics, 29(5), 2033–2045. Article
Nachtwey, Oliver and Seidl, Timo (2023) 'The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism.' Theory, Culture & Society, 1–22. Article
Seidl, Timo and Schmitz, Luuk (2023) 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy.' Journal of European Public Policy, 1-29. Article
Seidl, Timo (2023) 'Commodification and Disruption. Theorizing Digital Capitalism.' Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society 3(1). Article
Obendiek, Anke Sophia and Seidl, Timo (2023) 'The (False) Promise of Solutionism: Ideational Business Power and the Construction of Epistemic Authority in Digital Security Governance.' Journal of European Public Policy 30(7), pp. 1305-1329. Article
Schmitz, Luuk and Seidl, Timo (2022) 'As Open as Possible, as Autonomous as Necessary: Understanding the Rise of Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy.' Journal of Common Market Studies 61(3), pp. 834-852. Article
Seidl, Timo (2022) 'Investing in the Knowledge Economy: the Comparative Political Economy of Public Investments in Knowledge-based Capital.' European Journal of Political Research 62(3), pp. 924-944. Article | Replication Materials
Seidl, Timo (2022) 'The Politics of Platform Capitalism: A Case Study on the Regulation of Uber in New York.' Regulation & Governance 16(2), pp. 357-374. Article | Working Paper | Replication Materials
Marenco, Matteo and Seidl, Timo (2021) 'The discursive construction of digitalization: a comparative analysis of national discourses on the digital future of work'. European Political Science Review, 13(3), pp. 391-409. Article | Working Paper | Replication Materials
Seidl, Timo (2020) ‘The Politics of Platform Capitalism. A Case Study on the Regulation of Uber in New York’. Regulation & Governance. Article | Working Paper | Replication Materials
Laurer, Moritz and Seidl, Timo (2020) ‘Regulating the European Data-Driven Economy. A Case Study on the GDPR’. Policy & Internet, 13(2), pp. 257-277 Article | Working Paper | Replication Materials
Roos, Ulrich and Seidl, Timo (2015) ‘Im »Südwesten« nichts Neues? Eine Analyse der deutschen Namibiapolitik als Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der außenpolitischen Identität des deutschen Nationalstaates’, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 4(2), pp. 182–225. Article
Preprints & Working Papers
Schmitz, Luuk and Seidl, Timo (2022) '"Protecting, Transforming, and Projecting the Single Market". Open Strategic Autonomy and Digital Sovereignty in the EU's Trade and Digital Policies', Soc ArXiv Working Paper. Link
Seidl, Timo (2021) 'Commodification and Disruption: Theorizing Digital Capitalism', EIF Working Paper. Paper
Marenco, Matteo and Seidl, Timo (2020) ‘Talkin’ bout Digitalization. A Quantitative Comparison of Discourses on the Digitalization of Work in 8 European Countries’. Soc ArXiv Working Paper. Link
Nachtwey, Oliver and Seidl, Timo (2020) ‘The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism’. Soc ArXiv Working Paper. Link
Nachtwey, Oliver and Seidl, Timo (2017) ‘Die Ethik der Solution und der Geist des digitalen Kapitalismus’. Institute for Social Research Working Paper (#11). Link
Work in Progress
Obendiek, Anke & Seidl, Timo 'Ideational Business Power and the Construction of Epistemic Authority in Digital Security Governance', Under Review.
Moghior, Cosmina & Seidl, Timo 'Moving on to not fall behind? Digital sovereignty and the EU's new competition and industrial policies'. Early-stage working paper
Schmitz, Luuk and Seidl, Timo. Weaponizing the Single Market: The Cases of the EU’s Trade Policy and Digital Agenda. Early-stage paper.
Seidl, Timo: Investing in the Digital Future. The Comparative Political Economy of Digital Investment Policies. Unpublished Manuscript.
Book Chapters
Nachtwey, Oliver, Truffer, Johannes and Seidl, Timo (2023) 'Der solutionistische Geist des digitalen Kapitalismus.' In T. Carstensen, S. Schaupp, & S. Sevignani (Eds.), Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus. Arbeit, Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt. Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 458–475. Link
Nachtwey, Oliver/Seidl, Timo (2020) ‘Ideologie und der Geist des digitalen Kapitalismus’, in Nienhüser, W. and Matiaske, W. (eds.) Ökonomie und Ideologie. (Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft). Weimar: Metropolis, pp. 235-265. Paper
Laurer, Moritz/Seidl, Timo (2017) ‘Eine Stabilitäts- und Wettbewerbsunion der Regierungen: Zur Rekonstruktion grundlegender Handlungsregeln deutscher Eurokrisenpolitik’, in Roos, U. (ed.) Deutsche Außenpolitik: Arenen, Diskurse und grundlegende Handlungsregeln. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 13–47. Paper
Seidl, Timo (2017) ‘Kompatibilität statt Reduktion: Zur Idee einer Interdisziplinären Anthropologie als soziologischem Selbst- und Fremdver(un)sicherungsraum’, in Wagner, G. (ed.) Die Provokation der Reduktion: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftstheorie der Soziologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 201–232
Book Reviews & Other Publications
Seidl, Timo ‘Book Review: Appadurai, Arjun and Alexander, Neta (2020) Failure: Cambridge. Polity Press’, Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter. Link
Laurer, Moritz and Seidl, Timo (2014) ‘Das doppelte Ziel der deutschen Eurokrisenpolitik’, Welttrends, 22(99), pp. 120–126. Paper
Newspaper Articles & Blog Posts
Marenco, Matteo and Seidl, Timo (2021) 'Opportunity or threat? How discourses on digitalisation vary across European countries'. LSE EUROPP Blog. Link
Seidl, Timo (2020) The Techlash in Times of Corona. HIIG Blog. Link
Seidl, Timo (2018) Die Linke und der Geist des digitalen Kapitalismus, Oxi Magazin. 10/18,p. 5. Article
Roos, Ulrich and Seidl, Timo (2015) Time to Call Things as They Are, The Namibian, July 14, p. 7. Article
