Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.236
Fon +49.4131.677-2781, timon.beyes@leuphana.de
Professor*in, Professur für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur
Centre for Digital Cultures
Assoziierte/r, Centre for Critical Studies
Assoziierte/r, Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation

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Vita

Timon Beyes is Professor of Sociology of Organization and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is a founding director of Leuphana University's Centre for Digital Cultures, director of the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO), speaker of the Doctoral Program in Sociology and Cultural Organization and program director of the MA program in Culture and Organization. He is also affiliated with the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and acts as a Senior Editor for the journal Organization Studies.

Timon has a background in Sociology and Management Studies and has done his doctoral and post-doctoral research at the Institute of Sociology and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. From 2012-2017, he was full professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy. He has held visiting professorships at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Université Paris Dauphine.

In his research, he seeks to reconsider organization as a primary concern of cultural theory, and cultural theory as a primary concern for the study of organization. Research areas include the fields of media culture, art and aesthetics, cities and publics as well as higher education.

Projects

  1. «Curtius Academy» im Rahmen des European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (2023-2026)
    Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Chris Steyaert (Partner) , Robin Holt (Partner)
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    Project: Research

  2. TrICo Subprojekt - Community Art and Culture
    Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Boukje Sanne Cnossen (Project manager, academic) , Robin Kuchar (Project staff) , Valerie Lana Bartusch (Project manager, academic) , Maximilian Schellmann (Project staff) , Susan Börner (Project staff)
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    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  3. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022-2024 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
    Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Claus Pias (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Scientific event

  4. Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: Thinking in Action: Creative Transformation of Intercultural Common Space
    Volker Kirchberg (Project manager, academic) , Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Boukje Sanne Cnossen (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Other

  5. DFG Reserach Training Group 2114: Cultures of Critique - Forms, Media, Effects
    Beate Elisabeth Söntgen (Project manager, academic) , Erich Heinrich Hörl (Project manager, academic) , Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Roberto Nigro (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Organizing Colour: Toward a Chromatics of the Social
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 2024 Stanford, CA , 292 p.

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

  2. Proof of Stake: Technological Claims
    Timon Beyes (Editor) , Claus Pias (Editor) , Simon Denny (Editor) , Robin Holt (Editor) , Bettina Steinbrügge (Editor) , 2023 Milan , 204 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Transfer

  3. Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects
    Lisa Conrad (Editor) , Timon Beyes (Editor) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Editor) , Claus Pias (Editor) , Simon Denny (Editor) , Bettina Steinbrügge (Editor) , 2021 Hamburg , 196 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Transfer

  4. Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg: Zur Entstehung der Systemtheorie
    Timon Beyes (Editor) , Martin Warnke (Editor) , Wolfgang Hagen (Editor) , Claus Pias (Editor) , 2021 Berlin , 136 p.

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

  5. The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
    Timon Beyes (Editor) , Claus Pias (Editor) , Robin Holt (Editor) , 2020 Oxford , 538 p.

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

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Journal contributions

  1. Soziale Farbe (IV): Haut
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Merkur, 79, 919 , p. 16-25 , 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  2. Soziale Farbe (III): Blau machen
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.09.2025 , in: Merkur, 79, 916 , p. 50-60 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  3. Soziale Farbe (II): Farbe an der Arbeit
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.07.2025 , in: Merkur, 79, 914 , p. 21-31 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  4. Soziale Farbe (I): Mocha Mousse, die Unordnung der Farbe und die Ordnung des Sozialen
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 02.05.2025 , in: Merkur, 79, 912 , p. 39-49

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  5. Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia
    Anna Kalinina (Author) , Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.12.2024 , in: Theory, Culture & Society, 41, 7-8 , p. 57-71 , 15 p.

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

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Autonomie organisieren: Organisation als Medium der Kunst
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 09.12.2025 1 ed. , p. 73-90 , 17 p.

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

  2. Determinismus und Immanenz: Zur Kritik der Organisation in digitalen Kulturen
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.01.2023 Lüneburg , p. 62-80 , 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. Ten claims on behalf of technology
    Timon Beyes (Author) , Robin Holt (Author) , 01.01.2023 Milan , p. 95-104 , 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Transfer

  4. Mysteriöse Kisten und Vertrautheitsreste: Black Box Organisation
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 01.01.2023 Weilerswist , p. 119-137 , 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

  5. Noticing Colour: Shades of a Chromatic Empiricism
    Timon Beyes (Author) , 22.09.2022 Oxford , p. 127-152 , 26 p.

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

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Activities

  1. Going adrift in dystopian conditions: Organizing protest and resistance in present-day Russia
    Anna Kalinina (Speaker) , Timon Beyes (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Situation, envelopment, attunement: A critique of organizational atmospherics
    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

  3. sub-theme convenor: Digital Capitalism: Grappling with Silicon Valley
    Timon Beyes (Speaker) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Speaker) , Paula Sarah Bialski (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Calculated Publics
    Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

  5. Black Box Imagination: Zur Undurchschaubarkeit von Organisation
    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

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Press / Media

  1. Can schools become boundaryless spaces?
    1 Media contribution

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  2. Etwas von der Offenheit und Undefiniertheit des Provisoriums beibehalten: ein Interview mit Timon Beyes
    Interviewed once

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  3. Gespräch: Weniger planen, mehr zulassen
    1 Media contribution

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  4. Achtung Gefahr!
    1 Media contribution

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  5. Was macht die Stadt zur Stadt?
    1 time cited

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Courses