Prof. Dr. Christoph Brunner

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

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

• 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