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2025In personPanel 16Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

If oppressed communities had superpowers: Warhammer 40,000 as a model of social power relations in Western societies since the 19th century

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The Warhammer 40,000 (W40K) universe is a grimdark dystopian projection of science fantasy. In this far future, humanity is in a state of perpetual war against external threats, but also in an internal political struggle between two diametrically opposed factions structured around the axis of authoritarianism/self-organization. W40K is also a community-based game. Players are presented …

2025Friday 26th September 2025OnlinePanel 6Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

Monarchy and Biopolitics: Political Power and Somatic Modifications using Examples from the Warhammer 40k Universe

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The presentation addresses the connection between political power and somatic modifications using the example of the monarchy (Imperium of Man) from the grimdark Warhammer 40k universe, which raises the question of the nature and extent of political control over the human body and its use for the purpose of power projection which corresponds to term …

2025Friday 26th September 2025In personPanel 1Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

In the grim dankness of the far future, there is only memes

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Internet memes have become ubiquitous tools of digital communication and a fundamental component of everyday communicative practices (Johann & Bülow, 2018, 1). Far from being merely humorous images, memes function as multimodal artifacts, so called Language-Image-Texts (Osterroth 2015, 2019, 2020), through which users can perform speech acts in the sense of Austin (1962) and Searle …

2024Friday 27th September 2024Panel 7Warhammer 40k

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only politics? Warhammer 40k for a school-based look at Carl Schmitt’s unfolding concept of the political

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The universe of Warhammer 40k seems to have reached the stage in the permanent war for pure survival that Carl Schmitt would understand as a completely political world. Friend and foe can be clearly distinguished as a dichotomy inherent in politics. The distinction is clear, even clearer than in the Middle Ages, armour, weapon and …