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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    Die Problematik Granels

    Hörl, E., 04.2020, Die totale Produktion: Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit. Hörl, E. (ed.). Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant, p. 7-37 31 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

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    Critique and the Digital

    Hörl, E. (ed.), Pinkrah, N. Y. (ed.) & Warnsholdt, C. L. (ed.), 2021, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 296 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

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    Listening to the Street: Urban Sounds in Hamburg-Altona between the „Right to the City“ and the „Creativity Dispositif“

    Gaupp, L., Bielefeldt, N., Giesel, R., Göttsche, K., Hasse, Z., Laumeyer, S., Lenßen, L., Mai, J., Rüpcke, A., Rummler, L. & Dill, J., 22.12.2020, In: AVANT: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies. 11, 3, p. 1-24 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Modeling the Pacific Ocean

    Vehlken, S. (ed.), Vagt, C. (ed.) & Kittler, W. (ed.), 2021, Oakland: University of California Press. (Media and Environment; vol. 3, no. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

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    Die Macht der Affekte. Spinozas Theorie immanenter Individuation

    Andermann, K., 2020, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag. 357 p. (Paradeigmata; vol. 40)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Transindividuality: The affective continuity of the social in Spinoza

    Andermann, K., 2021, Critical theory and New Materialism. Rosa, H., Henning, C. & Bueno, A. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 84-94 11 p. (Routledge studies in social and political thought; vol. 161).

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

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    Wissen. Wahrheit. Macht. Foucaults "Morphologie des Willens zum Wissen": Der Wille zum Wissen (1970/71)

    Andermann, K., 2020, Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen: Michel Foucaults Vorlesungen 1970-1984. Vogelmann, F. (ed.). Berlin: J.B. Metzler, p. 19-33 15 p. (Philosophie & Kritik. Neue Beiträge zur politischen Philosophie und Kritischen Theorie).

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

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    Schwärmen

    Vehlken, S., 10.2022, Historisches Wörterbuch des Mediengebrauchs. Christians, H., Bickenbach, M. & Wegmann, N. (eds.). 1 ed. Wien: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, Vol. 3. p. 404-429 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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    Traffic Life: Temporal Dynamics and Regulatory Dimensions in Agent-Based Transport Simulations

    Vehlken, S., 2020, In: Mobilities. 15, 5, p. 725-739 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    REST in Peace: Floating Tanks als Medientechnik zwischen Balance und Exzess

    Hauss, P. & Vehlken, S., 10.02.2020, Balance: Figuren des Äquilibriums in den Kulturwissenschaften. Goebel, E. & Zumbusch, C. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 217-238 22 p. (Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus; vol. 23 ).

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