He is professor of modern German literature, literary, media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Since April 1, 2006, he has held the chair of modern German literature: literary, media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

He is the translator of key works of modern French philosophy such as Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend.

In his 2010 published work Das Gespenst des Kapitals ("The Specter of Capital") Vogl coined the term "Oikodizee", calling for a demystification of traditional conception of financial markets.

The powerful faith in the invisible hand of the market in the tradition of Adam Smith "ignores the secularised theodicy the irrational" and the "diabolical dynamics unleashed by money economy.