2025: Eliot Higgins, “Demanufacturing Consent: How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy”

See also, Barbara Tóth, “Bellingcat-Gründer Eliot Higgins / ‘Die Wahrheit verkauft sich nicht,’ Falter 41 (2025).

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog. Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigation tools and techniques.

Burkhardt Wolf is a Professor of Modern German Literature (with a special focus on literary and media theory) at the University of Vienna. He is the principal applicant for the ongoing international WEAVE research project “Bureaugraphie: Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy.” His research focuses on the history of discourse on violence, economics, and governmentality; the poetics of knowledge of affect; the cultural and media history of seafaring, and the cultural techniques and literary history of administration. In addition to positions at Humboldt University in Berlin and a multi-year Heisenberg Fellowship from the DFG, his academic career has included visiting professorships in Berlin, Munich, Santa Barbara, Bloomington, Beijing, and Berkeley.

Szilvia Gellai was a fellow in the LOEWE research cluster “Architectures of Order” during the winter semester of 2020/2021. As part of her fellowship, she was exploring the metaphor of the glass house and other related transparent enclosures used by 20th century female writers (Hilda ‘H.D.’ Doolittle, Anaïs Nin, Sylvia Plath, Marlen Haushofer, Margaret Atwood, Angela Krauss, among others). Since March 2020, Szilvia Gellai has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Vienna, where she has been working at the intersection of literary, media, and cultural studies. She previously worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She received her PhD there in 2017 after completing a study on “Network Poetics in Contemporary Literature.” She studied fine arts at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and German language and literature at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. In 2007/2008, she spent time at the Humboldt University in Berlin as an Erasmus and DAAD scholarship holder.

Barbara Tóth is a historian, book author, and journalist. She has worked since 2008 at “Falter.” She writes about politics, media, and history and currently is the head of the media department and the political book page.