JOEL BOCK
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Global Engagement

My academic work has been deeply informed by my extensive international experience, which includes several academic exchanges, research collaborations, integrating impactful international learning experiences into my courses, and teaching English in Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic. These experiences have shaped my research interests in post-Kantian German and contemporary French philosophy while helping me attain fluency in German and French, which I use daily in my professional and private life.

Languages

  • Fluency: English (Native Speaker), French (C1/C2), German (C1)
  • Intermediate Reading Knowledge: Ancient Greek, Dutch
  • Basic Reading Knowledge: Spanish, Czech

International Academic Experience

  • Philosophy (MA), École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (2019 – 2020)
  • German Studies (MA), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany (2017 – 2018)
  • Intensive French Language Study, Centre FLEURA, Université Clermont Auvergne, France (2016 – 2017)
  • English Teaching Assistantship, Fulbright Commission, Germany (2015 – 2016)
  • Study Abroad (BA), Maastricht University, Netherlands (Fall 2009)

International Research Collaborations

As a member of the international and interdisciplinary Cyborg Workers organizing team​, I am contributing to the development of academic, public-facing research collaborations that address themes related to the future of labor in conjunction with AI, automation and the gig economy. In February 2025, we organized the Cyborg Workers 2.0 conference entitled "The Past, Present and Future of Automated Labour: The Social and Environmental Costs of Big Tech," which was hosted by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels. 

​We are now collaborating to share key insights from the conference in an edited volume, to be published by ETUI, and we are in the early stages of organizing the Cyborg Workers 3.0 conference.
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International Conference Presentations

“The Anthropocene as Entropocene: A Stieglerian Response to Criticisms Of the Anthropocene Discourse”
  • Beyond Humanism Conference, University of Paris 8, France (June 2025)
“The Proletarianization of Work, Leisure, and Dignity in the Digital Age: Stieglerian and Care Perspectives”
  • Dignity in the Digital Age Conference, University of Salzburg, Austria (June 2025)
“Différance, Pharmacology, and Technics between Derrida and Stiegler”
  • Derrida Today Conference, Athens, Greece (June 2024)
“Aristotle on schole as the End of Politics”
  • Ancient Philosophy Society, Toronto, Canada (April 2024)
“The Political Significance of Bernard Stiegler’s Philosophy of Technology”
  • Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Ioannina, Greece (Oct. 2023)​
“Bernard Stiegler’s Philosophy of Work and Leisure in the Age of the Anthropocene”
  • Cyborg Workers: The Past, Present, and Future of Automated Labour, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Online (June 2023)
“Doubling Down: Bernard Stiegler on Technics, History, and the Double Epochal Redoubling”
  • Society for Philosophy and Technology Biennial Conference, Tokyo, Japan (June 2023)
“The Metaphysical, Political, and Technological Significance of Hegel’s Concept of Arbeit”
  • Technology and the State – The 200th Anniversary of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Research Network for Philosophy and Technology, Online (Nov. 2021)  
“Liberation from the Constraints of Nature or Enslavement to the Machine? Technology as a Historical Moment in the Philosophies of Hegel and Adorno”
  • Istanbul-Oldenburg Critical Theory Conference, Oldenburg, Germany (Sept. 2019)
“Bewegung im Raum in Thomas Manns Der Tod in Venedig als Funktion des inneren Kampfs zwischen dem Apollinischen und dem Dionysischen: Eine Phänomenologische Analyse”
  • Internationaler Kongress der Germanisten Rumäniens, Oradea, Romania (June 2018)

International Teaching Experience

  • English Teacher & Activity Leader, TASIS Summer Programs, Montagnola, Switzerland (Summer 2017)
  • English Teacher & Activity Leader, Ardmore Language Programs, Saint Peter's University, Jersey City, New Jersey (Summer 2016)
  • English Teaching Assistant, Fulbright Commission, Chemnitz, Germany (2015 – 2016)
  • Freelance English Teacher, Self-employed, Prague, Czech Republic (2012 – 2015)
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