School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

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    What´s in a net? or: The end of the average

    Warnke, M., 2011, In: Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal. 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What's legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

    Mattutat, L. (ed.), Nigro, R. (ed.), Schiel, N. (ed.) & Stubenrauch, H. (ed.), 28.07.2020, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 304 p. (Critical Stances)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    What's legit? Introduction

    Mattutat, L., Nigro, R., Schiel, N. & Stubenrauch, H., 28.07.2020, What's legit? : Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights. Mattutat, L., Nigro, R., Schiel, N. & Stubenrauch, H. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-20 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    What Will This Century Be Known As?: Deleuze and Resistance for Theory

    Zimnik, N., 12.1998, In: Film-Philosophy. 2, 1, 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    When Fashion Becomes Art: Medial Aspects of the Body in Fashion

    Förster-Beuthan, Y., 08.2012, In: The Journal of Humanities. 33, 2, p. 263-281 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    When Machines Speak to Each Other: Unpacking the “Social” in “Social Media”

    Shah, N., 29.04.2015, In: Social Media and Society. 1, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    When Privacy Goes Public: New Media and the Transformation of the Culture of Confession

    Burkart, G., 01.01.2010, Modern Privacy : Shifting Boundaries, New Forms. Blatterer, H., Johnson, P. & Markus, M. R. (eds.). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 23-38 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Where do the data live? Anonymity and Neighborhood Networks

    Heinrichs, R., 2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Where is cinema (today)? the cinema in the age of media immanence

    Hagener, M., 2008, In: Cinema & Cie. 11, p. 15-22 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Where the Negative Holds Court: Bernadette Corporation and the Absence of Situation

    Rauch, M. F., 09.2019, In: Diaphanes. 6/7, p. 44-48 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Where there is no World and no Epoch: Bernard Stieglerüs Thinking of the Entropocene

    Hörl, E., 25.01.2024, Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future. Buseyne, B., Tsagdis, G. & Willemarck, P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 107-123 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Where There is No World and No Epoch: Bernard Stiegler's Thinking of the Entropocene

    Hörl, E., 22.02.2024, Bernard Stiegler: Memory of the Futur. Buseyne, B., Tsagdis, G. & Willenmarck, P. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 107-124 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Whitehead’s Ethics: Fill in the Blanks

    Bella, D. & Stürmer, M., 01.11.2023, In: Process Studies. 52, 2, p. 179-200 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Who is responsible for corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments

    Prause, L. & Wienkoop, N. K., 2017, In: Partecipazione e Conflitto. 10, 3, p. 850-873 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Who’s afraid of the senses? Organization, management and the return of the sensorium

    Beyes, T., Cnossen, B., Ashcraft, K. & Bencherki, N., 01.09.2022, In: Management Learning. 53, 4, p. 625-639 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Whose Change is it, Anyway? Towards a future of digital technologies and citizen action in emerging information societies

    Shah, N., 2013, The Hague: Hivos, 40 p. (Hivos Knowledge Programm).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

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    Whose home is it anyway? Performing multiple selves while doing organizational ethnography

    Cnossen, B., 28.06.2018, In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography. 7, 2, p. 176-185 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Who's Hacking Whom?

    Ridgway, R., 02.2017, Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches. Coleman, E. G. & Kelty, C. M. (eds.). United States: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Vol. 8. p. 120-126 7 p. (Limn; vol. 8).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    Why Art Criticism? A Reader

    Söntgen, B. (ed.) & Voss, J. (ed.), 04.2022, Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag. 464 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

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    Why Being Democratic is Just Not Enough: The EU’s Governance Transfer

    van Hüllen, V. & Börzel, T. A., 01.2015, Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script. Börzel, T. A. & van Hüllen, V. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 227-242 16 p. (Governance and Limited Statehood).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review