Professur für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The research field Sociology of Organization and Culture is dedicated to the interdependency of organization and culture. Organization is conditioned by culture. Forms and processes of organizing are based on cultural dispositions of experiencing, feeling, thinking and acting, and therefore on material, media-technological, spatial, and affective ordering modes and power relations. At the same time, the study of cultural practices and orders requires an organizational perspective. Culture is made manifest and changes on the level of organized and organizing interaction, cooperation and struggle.

Understanding organization through cultural theory (and culture through organization theory) thus denotes a broad approach to the ordering and disordering of the social. This approach is positioned in and at the margins of organizational and cultural sociology and the field of Organization Studies; and at the intersections with cultural theory, literary and media studies, art theory, human geography, and cultural anthropology.

The main research areas include:

  • old and new forms and processes of organizing art and culture
  • artistic engagements with, and reflections of, modes of organization (in literature, theatre, and the visual arts)
  • urban culture and organization: the spatial and urban constitution and contestation of organizational processes
  • the affective and atmospheric constitution of organization
  • colour as force and medium of organizing
  • the interdependency of organization and technology in and before the age of "digital cultures"
  • publics, counterpublics and politics of organizing
  • ethnographic, experimental and performative approaches to social and cultural research
  • the reorganization of university teaching and learning

Main research areas

Die kulturwissenschaftlich verstandene Organisationsforschung (bzw. die organisationstheoretisch verstandene Kulturwissenschaft) bezeichnet damit eine breit gefasste Herangehensweise an die Ordnung und Unordnung und an das alltägliche Geordnet-Werden des Sozialen. Sie arbeitet in und an den Rändern der Organisations- und Kultursoziologie sowie der internationalen Organization Studies; und an den Schnittstellen zu Kulturtheorie, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Kunsttheorie, Humangeographie und Kulturanthropologie.

Die Schwerpunkte des Forschungsbereichs Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur umfassen:

  • das Wechselverhältnis von Organisation und Medientechnik in und vor der Epoche „digitaler Kulturen“ und ihre gesellschaftlichen und politischen Konsequenzen
  • alte und neue Formen und Prozesse der Kunst- und Kulturorganisation sowie die künstlerische Bearbeitung und Reflexion von Organisationsweisen und Organisationskomplexen insb. in Literatur, Theater und bildender Kunst
  • die räumliche und städtische Konstitution und Umkämpftheit von Organisationsprozessen
  • die affektive und atmosphärische Konstitution und Kraft von Organisationsweisen
  • die Farbe als Kraft und Medium des Organisierens
  • alte und neue Ansätze ethnographischer, experimenteller und performativer Sozial- und Kulturforschung
  • die Reorganisation universitären Lehrens und Lernens, insb. hinsichtlich der Erkundung von Räumen und Atmosphären der Lehre
  1. 2025
  2. Published

    My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene

    Malachowski, J., 02.2025, In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 54, 1, p. 30-59 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 2024
  4. Published

    Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia

    Kalinina, A. & Beyes, T., 12.2024, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 41, 7-8, p. 57-71 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Luftrummets organisering - på arbejde med Sloterdijk

    Jorgensen, L., 07.11.2024, Perspektiver på Sloterdijk: en antologi. Sporen Fiedler, E. & Rasmussen, U. H. (eds.). Copenhagen: Eksistensen, p. 23-48 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Organizing Colour: Toward a Chromatics of the Social

    Beyes, T., 01.03.2024, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 292 p. (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  7. 2023
  8. Published

    Organizing Half-Things: Knowing, Theorizing and Studying Atmospheres

    Jorgensen, L. & Beyes, T., 12.2023, In: Organization Theory. 4, 4, p. 1-16 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Media Review: Contemporary Art as Collective Organizing (and its Contradictions)

    Beyes, T. & Holm, D. V., 06.06.2023, In: Organization Studies. 44, 9, p. 1551-1554 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  10. Published

    It’s All Method: Schmitz and Neo- Phenomenology

    Jørgensen, L., 26.01.2023, The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. de Vaujany, F.-X., Aroles, J. & Pérezts, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 602-621 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  11. Published

    Mysteriöse Kisten und Vertrautheitsreste: Black Box Organisation

    Beyes, T., 01.01.2023, Organisation und Mythos. Klatetzki, T. & Ortmann, G. (eds.). Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 119-137 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  12. Published

    “Circuits of Commons”: Exploring the Connections Between Economic Lives and the Commons

    Dalla Chiesa, C., Morea, V. & Sabatini, F., 2023, Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer. Haefele, S. & Storr, V. H. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 51-76 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  13. Published

    Determinismus und Immanenz: Zur Kritik der Organisation in digitalen Kulturen

    Beyes, T., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 62-80 19 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

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

  14. Published

    Digitale Kulturen und Kritik nach ihrem Ende

    Hille, L. & Wentz, D., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-20 12 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

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

  15. Published

    Kritik postdigital

    Hille, L. (Editor) & Wentz, D. (Editor), 2023, Lüneburg: meson press. 140 p. (Digital Cultures Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures

    Ibach, M. K., 2023, In: Design and Culture. 15, 3, p. 323-344 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Proof of Stake: Technological Claims

    Beyes, T. (Editor), Denny, S. (Editor), Holt, R. (Editor), Pias, C. (Editor) & Steinbrügge, B. (Editor), 2023, Milan: Lenz Press. 204 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesExhibition cataloguesTransfer

  18. Published

    Ten claims on behalf of technology

    Holt, R. & Beyes, T., 2023, Proof of Stake: Technological Claims. Beyes, T., Denny, S., Holt, R., Pias, C. & Steinbrügge, B. (eds.). Milan: Lenz Press, p. 95-104 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  19. 2022
  20. Published

    Noticing Colour: Shades of a Chromatic Empiricism

    Beyes, T., 22.09.2022, Doing Process Research in Organizations: Noticing Differently. Simpson , B. & Revsbæk, L. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 127-152 26 p.

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

  21. Published

    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

  22. Published

    Staging Arts in the Historic City: Development Funding, Social Media Images, and Tunisia's Contemporary Public Art Scene

    Malachowski, J., 01.08.2022, In: City and Society. 34, 2-3, p. 197-225 29 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society

    Beyes, T., 01.07.2022, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 39, 4, p. 111-127 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Ten Theses on Technology and Organization: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Beyes, T., Chun, W. H. K., Clarke, J., Flyverbom, M. & Holt, R., 01.07.2022, In: Organization Studies. 43, 7, p. 1001-1018 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  25. Published

    How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship

    Holm, D. V. & Beyes, T., 01.02.2022, In: Organization Studies. 43, 2, p. 227-245 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  26. 2021
  27. Published

    Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media

    Wieghorst, C., 16.11.2021, Reckoning with Social Media. Chia, A., Jorge, A. & Karppi, T. (eds.). Lanham ua.: Rowmann & Littlefield , p. 207-225 19 p. 10

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

  28. Published

    Creative Work, Self-Organizing, and Autonomist Potentiality: Snapshots taken from Amsterdam's art factories

    Cnossen, B., 01.04.2021, In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24, 2, p. 394-410 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affect

    Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 04.2021, In: Management Learning. 52, 2, p. 224-242 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Undoing Networks

    Karppi, T., Stäheli, U., Wieghorst, C. & Zierott, L., 02.2021, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 126 p. (In Search of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  31. Published

    Die Maker*innen Bewegung: Was die Mikroökonomie, die Feldtheorie und die Praxistheorie über sie zu sagen haben

    Conrad, L. & Maier, M., 18.01.2021, DIY, Subkulturen und Feminismen. Czerney, S., Eckert, L. & Martin, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Alma Marta Verlag, p. 196-232 37 p. (Aspekte).

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

  32. Published

    Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects

    Conrad, L. (Editor), Beyes, T. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Pias, C. (Editor), Denny, S. (Editor) & Steinbrügge, B. (Editor), 2021, Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg. 196 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsTransfer

  33. Published

    Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg: Zur Entstehung der Systemtheorie

    Beyes, T. (Editor), Warnke, M. (Editor), Hagen, W. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 2021, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH. 136 p. (Soziologische Schriften (SOZS); vol. 86)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  34. Published

    Organization

    Beyes, T., 2021, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Thylstrup, N. B., Agostinho, D., Ring, A., D'Ignazio, C. & Veel, K. (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press, p. 369 - 376 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  35. Published

    Strukturwandel des Geheimen: Öffentlichkeit im Überwachungskapitalismus

    Beyes, T., 2021, In: Leviathan, Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft. 49, Sonderband 37, p. 91-114 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    The organizational a priori: Critique of the digital as critique of organization

    Beyes, T. (Contributor), 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.

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

  37. 2020
  38. Published

    The topographical imagination: space and organization theory

    Beyes, T. & Holt, R., 01.04.2020, In: Organization Theory. 1, 2, 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  39. Published

    Klingen des W. Gelächter

    Beyes, T., 2020, WH - Stimmen hören. Klaut, M., Pias, C. & Schnödl, G. (eds.). Berlin: ciconia ciconia Verlag, p. 25-29 5 p. (Ciconia ciconia; vol. 34).

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

  40. 2019
  41. Published

    By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organisation

    Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 498-514 17 p.

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

  42. Published

    Colour Chart

    Beyes, T., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 125-135 11 p.

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

  43. Published

    The Oxford Handbook on Media, Technology and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T. (Editor), Holt, R. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 12.12.2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 560 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  44. Published

    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

  45. Published

    Novel Thought: Towards a Literary Study of Organization

    Beyes, T., Costas, J. & Ortmann, G., 01.12.2019, In: Organization Studies. 40, 12, p. 1787-1803 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Novel thought: Towards a literary study of organization

    Beyes, T., Costas, J. & Ortmann, G., 01.12.2019, In: Organization Studies. 40, 12, p. 1787-1803 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Editorial: #5 Spectres of Artificial Intelligence

    spheres Editorial Collective, Apprich, C., Beverungen, A. & Hille, L., 01.11.2019, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 5, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  48. Published

    Organize

    Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R., 10.2019, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 128 p. (In Search of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  49. Published

    Organizing Media: Security and Entertainment

    Beyes, T., 10.2019, Organize. Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 29-62 34 p. (In Search of Media).

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

  50. Published

    The organizational powers of (digital) media

    Beverungen, A., Beyes, T. & Conrad, L., 01.09.2019, In: Organization. 26, 5, p. 621-635 15 p., 867206.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  51. Published

    Die Maschine auf der Couch. Oder: Was ist schon 'künstlich' an Künstlicher Intelligenz?

    Apprich, C., 09.2019, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 11, 2, p. 20-28 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  52. Published

    Individual motivation among entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries: A self-determination perspective

    Cnossen, B., Loots, E. & van Witteloostuijn, A., 09.2019, In: Creativity and Innovation Management. 28, 3, p. 389-402 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  53. Published

    Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society

    Beverungen, A. (Editor), Beyes, T. (Editor) & Conrad, L. (Editor), 09.2019, London: SAGE Publications Inc. 127 p. (Organization; vol. 26, no. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  54. Published

    Für ein Bestiarium der Organisation - Kafkas Grenzwesen

    Beyes, T. & Holt, R., 01.05.2019, Kafka: Organisation, Recht, Schrift. Ortmann, G. & Schuller, M. (eds.). Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 103-124 22 p.

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

  55. Published

    The media arcane

    Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 01.05.2019, In: Grey Room. 75, Spring, p. 84-107 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  56. Published

    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

  57. Published

    Exposing the machinic present: Rimini Protokoll’s theatre of operations

    Beyes, T., 2019, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. Eckersall, P. & Grehan, H. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 219-223 5 p. (Routledge theatre and performance companions).

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

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