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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    Löwenbaby

    Wessely, C., 2019, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. 68 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransfer

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    Ecologies of Making: On Tim Ingold´s General-Ecological Critique of Worldmaking

    Hörl, E., 2017, +ultra knowledge & gestaltung. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 45-53 9 p.

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

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    The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital

    Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Humans, Materiality and Society: The Contemporary Sociological Relevance of Helmuth Plessner

    Henkel, A., 15.03.2019, In: Human Studies . 42, 1, p. 123-145 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Planning Table

    Conrad, L., 10.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 321-332 12 p.

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

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    The Organization is a Repair Shop

    Conrad, L., 05.2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 2, p. 303-324 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Logistical Borderscapes: Politics and Mediation of Mobile Labor in Germany after the "Summer of Migration"

    Altenried, M., Bojadžijev, M., Höfler, L., Mezzadra, S. & Wallis, M., 01.04.2018, In: South Atlantic Quarterly. 117, 2, p. 291-312 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Anarchive künstlerischer Forschung. Vom Umgang mit Archiven experimenteller und forschender Kunst

    Brunner, C. & Hiltbrunner, M., 2017, In: Archivalische Zeitschrift. 95, p. 175 - 190 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

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    Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Ökonomik für das Leben: Reflexionen aus einer schwierigen Wissenschaft

    Hochmann, L., 2018, 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 233 p. (Sozialtheorie)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review