Presentation
Vicky is a research associate and doctoral student at the University of Frankfurt, where she works in the ‘Biotechnologies, Nature and Society’ research group. Before coming to Frankfurt, she studied political science and economics at LMU Munich (B.A.) with two semesters at Sciences Po; followed by studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Goldsmiths, University of London (M.A.). She then worked at the Berlin office of the OECD and at the University of Aberdeen.
Her research interests include the history and knowledge of capitalism (green and digital), STS, economic sociology, political and environmental sociology, sociology of time and feminist theories.
Her thesis, entitled “Biosolutionism. Speculative futures toward the financialization of nature’, explores the history of the integration of nature into the circuits of capital and shows that the grammar of “biosolutionism” goes hand in hand with the expansion of finance and the practices of making the future. Focusing on the period between the late 1960s and the present, it examines the history of economic knowledge to integrating nature into circuits of capital, examining the conflation of the contradictory constellations of actors, discourses, and institutions invested in the valuation of ecosystems, how nature has become (I) calculable (II) governable and (III) investable in the techno-economic imagination.
Publications
Books
Barla, Josef, Vicky Kluzik, and Thomas Lemke, eds. 2022. Biokapital. Beiträge zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie des Lebens. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
Peer-reviewed articles
Kluzik, Vicky. 2022. “Governing Invisibility in the Platform Economy: Excavating the Logics of Platform Care.” Internet Policy Review 11(1). doi:10.14763/2022.1.1636.
Chapters/contributions to edited volumes
Kluzik, Vicky. 2025. “Zur Kritik der planetarischen Dienstleistungsökonomie: Natur, Reproduktion und Arbeit in mehr-als-menschlichen Geographien.” In Geographien der Arbeit. Neue Perspektiven aus Räumen der Re/Produktion, edited by [Herausgeber:innen]. Springer (forthcoming).
Kluzik, Vicky, and Ira Zöller. 2023. “Von Selbstüberwachung zu ‘Creative Acts of Making’: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Impulse in der Debatte um digitale Selbstvermessungspraktiken.” In Leben Regieren: Natur, Technologie und Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Katharina Hoppe, Jonas Rüppel, Franziska von Verschuer, and Torsten H. Voigt, pp. 139–156. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
Barla, Josef, Vicky Kluzik, and Thomas Lemke. 2022. “Einleitung.” In Biokapital. Beiträge zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie des Lebens, edited by Josef Barla, Vicky Kluzik, and Thomas Lemke, pp. 9–49. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
Berfelde, Rabea, and Vicky Kluzik. 2022. “Platforms Becoming Infrastructural? Mapping Socio-Spatial Transformations.” In Platform Urbanism: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities, edited by Sybille Bauriedl and Anke Strüver, pp. 39–51. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Kluzik, Vicky. 2021. “Zur Aktualisierung von Flexploitation: Sorge, Prekarität und digitale Plattformen.” In Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise sozialer Reproduktion, edited by Moritz Altenried, Julia Dück, and Mira Wallis, pp. 209–225. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
Other publications
Kluzik, Vicky. 2023. Regelt der Markt die Klimakrise? Wirtschaftswoche 01/2023.
Kluzik, Vicky. 2022. (No) Future of Work? Technological Futures, Uneven Geographies and the Value of Labour. European Images: The Photographic Newsletter on European Matters #5 Work.
Berfelde, Rabea, Vicky Kluzik, and Nils Peters. 2020. Mediating the Crisis: Platformisation and Covid-19. Political Economy Research Centre Blog, October 2, 2020.