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Prof. Dr. Christoph Brunner

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.405
Fon +49.4131.677-2340, christoph.brunner@leuphana.de

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Vita

Research Areas

  • Cultural Theory (Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and Post-/De-Colonial Studies)
  • Media Aestehtics, esp. Platforms and Social Movements
  • Affect Studies
  • Philosophies of Difference and New Pragmatism


 

Christoph Brunner’s research revolves around the intersections between media, affect, and politics of aesthetics. He focuses on contemporary social movements and their use of aesthetic techniques and strategies. The question of translocal modes of networking and organization, the use of embodied and affective forms of knowledge, and relational conceptions of subjectivity define guiding lines of this research. At Leuphana he directs the ArchipelagoLab for Transversal Practices, where students and researchers experiment with different formats and forms of collaboration between art, theory and activism. The Lab hosts artists in residence, conducts the Activist Sense Workshop and Lecture Series, facilitates self-organized student reading groups, screenings and performances. Brunner currently is PI of two research projects “Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal With” as part of the DFG Research Group Media and Participation (FOR 2252) and the DFG Research Network “Other Knowledges in Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory.”

 

Positions

04/22 - 03/23 - Administrative Professor, Professorship for Philosophy

10/2019 - 08/2020 Visiting Professor at McGill University

02/2016 - 01/24 assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) for cultural theory, Institute for Philosophy and Art Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg

04/2010 – 01/2016 research assistant at the Departement Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts

04/2010  –  12/2011 research fellow at the SNF project Research in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory, PI Elke Bippus ith, ZHdK, Kathrin Busch, UdK Berlin, responsible for philosophy of aesthetics

01/2009 – 01/2010 research assistant in the SSHRC research project Nouveau Terrain d’Apparition, PI: Luc Courchesen, Univeristé de Montréal

Education

04/2015 Doctor in Philosophy (Humanities): “Ecologies of Relation: Collectivity in Art and Media”, Concordia University  Montreal (Supervisors: Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Sha Xin Wei)

08/2007 MA in Cultural Studies: “Music, Gender and Technology: The Potential for Difference in Ecologies of Electronic Music” (Supervisors: Luciana Parisi, Matthew Fuller)

09/2006 B.A. Kulturwissenschaften (HF), Religionswissenschaften (NF): „Media Anthropology: Audience, Production, Locality: Mass Media in the Indian Context“, Univerisity of Bremen (Supervisor: Dorle Dracklé)

 

Memberships, Academic Self-Governance, Journals:

- coordinating director of the Institute for Philosophy and Sciences of Art (2018-2020)

- responsible for gender and diversity, faculty of HUmanities and Social Sciences, Leuphana University Lüneburg (2016-2022)

- Member of the Gender and Diversity Research Network,  Leuphana University Lüneburg

- Member of the Society for Cultural Studies (KwG)

- Member of the German Assosciation of Media Studies (GfM)

- member of eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies and the editorial board of transversal texts

- member of the SenseLab, Concordia University Montreal

- Editorial Board of the book series Experimental Practices at Brill Publishers

- Editorial Board member of Inflexions: A Journal for Research Creation

- Editorial Board member of ON - Audio-Journal for Experimental Art and Visual Culture

- Editorial Board: Kamion: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie und nützliche Nachrichten

Teaching

  • Cultural Theory
  • Art and Cultural Philosophy
  • Media and Art Theory
    Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Continental Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Cultural Theory (Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and Post-/De-Colonial Studies)
  • Media Aestehtics, esp. Platforms and Social Movements
  • Affect Studies
  • Philosophies of Difference and New Pragmatism

Projects

  1. DFH Digital Anthropologies
    Christoph Brunner (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Scientific event

  2. Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
    Christoph Brunner (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  3. Summer School: Activist Sense and Urban Ecologies of Care
    Christoph Brunner (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  4. "Other Knowledge" in Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory
    Christoph Brunner (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  5. Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
    (Partner) , Christoph Brunner (Project manager, academic) , Roberto Nigro (Partner) , (Project manager, academic) , Erich Hörl (Partner)
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    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Texturig Space: Towards an Exponential Cartography
    Amélie Brisson-Darveau (Editor) , Christoph Brunner (Editor) , 2021 1 ed. Hamburg , 242 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  2. Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung.
    Sofia Bempeza (Author) , Christoph Brunner (Author) , Katharina Hausladen (Author) , Ines Kleesattel (Author) , Ruth Sonderegger (Author) , 2019 Wien , 178 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review

  3. Technökologien
    Christoph Brunner (Editor) , Raimund Minichbauer (Editor) , Kelly Mulvaney (Editor) , Gerald Raunig (Editor) , 2018 Wien , 157 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer

  4. Technoökologien / Technecologies / Tecnocologías
    Christoph Brunner (Editor) , Kike España Naveira (Editor) , Raimund Minichbauer (Editor) , Kelly Mulvaney (Editor) , Gerald Raunig (Editor) , 2018 Wien, Linz

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Transfer

  5. Modes of Exhaustion
    Érik Bordeleau (Editor) , Christoph Brunner (Editor) , Halbe Kuipers (Editor) , Nam Chi Nguyen (Editor) , Toni Pape (Editor) , 2017 , 235 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. “Making Sense”: Aesthetic Counterpowers in Activist Media Practices
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , 01.07.2020 , in: Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 7, 1 , p. 1-16 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing Relational Aesthetics Considering Critical Ecologies
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Ines Kleesattel (Author) , 01.01.2019 , in: Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 11 , p. 106-125 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review

  3. Activist Sense: Affective Media Practices during the G20 Summit in Hamburg
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , 01.03.2018 , in: transversal / EIPCP multilingual webjournal, 2018, 3 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review

  4. Introduction: For an Ethology of Exhaustion
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Halbe Hessel Kuipers (Author) , Toni Pape (Author) , 01.10.2017 , in: Inflexions : a Journal for Research Creation, 10 , p. I-IX , 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Anarchive künstlerischer Forschung. Vom Umgang mit Archiven experimenteller und forschender Kunst
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Michael Hiltbrunner (Author) , 01.01.2017 , in: Archivalische Zeitschrift, 95 , p. 175 - 190 , 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. From Energy Humanities to Human Energetics: The Noetics of Approximate Knowledge in the work of Gilbert Simondon
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Jonas Fritsch (Author) , 01.01.2024 , p. 19-26 , 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Formen teilhabender Kritik: Philosophische, mediale und künstlerische Perspektiven
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Roberto Nigro (Author) , Elke Bippus (Author) , 01.01.2023 Lüneburg , p. 193-209 , 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Concatenated Commons and Operational Aesthetics
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , 01.02.2021 Zurich , p. 241-269 , 29 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  4. Shifting Immediations: Fields of Experience across Media Art and Design
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , Jonas Fritsch (Author) , 01.11.2020 Montreal (Quebec) , p. 91-97 , 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  5. From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James
    Christoph Brunner (Author) , 06.10.2020 Bielefeld , p. 153-178 , 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.
    Christoph Brunner (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  2. An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.
    Christoph Brunner (Speaker) , Ines Kleesattel (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices
    Christoph Brunner (Lecturer)
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    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  4. The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity
    Christoph Brunner (Lecturer)
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    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  5. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?
    Christoph Brunner (Lecturer)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

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Press / Media

Prizes

  1. John G. Diefenbaker Award
    Christoph Brunner (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  2. Renaud Teaching Assistant Fellowship
    Christoph Brunner (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  3. Concordia University Graduate Fellowship
    Christoph Brunner (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  4. Concordia University International Tuition Fee Remission Award
    Christoph Brunner (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  5. DAAD Graduiertenstipendium
    Christoph Brunner (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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