Current Activities

24.Oct
Ontologies and Epistemologies in Science and Technology Studies
23.Oct
A Politics of Neglect: Trailing Life and Death in a Postcolonial Landscape
02.Jul
Epistemic Rupture, Language Hegemony and its Disruptions with Machine Translation
26.Jun
Acedia, Inertia, Latency: Resistances to Acceleration
25.Jun
Middle Tech – Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
18.Jun
The Data Driven Home
11.Jun
Trained Apes in Artificial Environments. Some Notes on the Media Archaeology of the Behavioral Sciences
04.Jun
The Making of Digital Urban Twins: Perspectives into the Blackbox of Software Development in Hamburg
14.May
The Poverty of Strategy
25.Apr
Organizing Color: Toward a Chromatics of the Social
24.Apr
The Dark Sides of Digital Humanism
23.Apr
Public thing: … from writing to texting: a work in progress
11.Apr
Who cares about representation? Behinderte Menschen in den Medien
09.Apr
Semester Opening and Book Launches
31.Jan
Can Trust be Engineered?
30.Jan
Trajectories, Patterns, Super Structures. Mapping Digital Cultures
10.Jan
Professorship of Political Sociology
09.Jan
Ground Truthing in Digital Technoculture
22.Dec
The Silicon Valley Ideology
12.Dec
Is Tech-led urbanism Sociopathic?
06.Dec
Professorship of Digital Cultures
05.Dec
End User Narrative: Automated Video and Reinforcement Learning
29.Nov
Performing Digital Data Rights
15. - 16.Nov
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13. - 14.Nov
Organization as Medium of Contemporary Art
07.Nov
Land and Data: Land Use Politics and the Expansion of Digital Infrastructure
24.Oct
Project on Archives, Technology, and Secrecy
04.Jul
A((I))cademia? ChatGPT und die Konjunktur eines Themas
28.Jun
Media and Cultural Change
26.Jun
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023
23.Jun
Media Organize: Exploring and Exhibiting Technologies of the Social
21. - 22.Jun
Hacker Cultures. Ethnographies of Silicon Valley and Beyond Future Making Workshop
06.Jun
Die Technik und das Digital im Spiegel der Kulturphilosophie von Ernst Cassirer
24.May
Terror Environments: Writing through War
23.May
Protest Instructions in Online Russian Contentious Networks
17.May
Amazon at the Intersection of Culture and Capita
09.May
Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism"
25.Apr
Cyberwar Topologies: In Struggle for a Post-American Internet
11. - 15.Apr
Organizing Culture. The art museum as site of organizational change
02.Feb
Digital Cultures Celebrations and book launch
01.Feb
Book Launch “Proof of Stake: Technological Claims”
17.Jan
Book Launch “Tiefen der Täuschung. Computersimulationen und Wirklichkeitserzeugung”
11.Jan
„Ein Abend für Wolfgang Hagen." (Catch-up date)
30.Nov
CDC presents: “Digital Media in the Making”
30.Jun
POSTPONED CDC Event: "Ein Abend für Wolfgang Hagen, inkl. Buchvorstellung"
29.Jun
Dr. Barbara Hof (Universität Zürich): „Der Simulationsreaktor als Lernhilfe. Argonaut, Anwendungswissen und der Aufbau der Atomindustrie in der BRD“
22.Jun
“Scale” with Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen
20. - 24.Jun
Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy 2022: “Scale”
14.Jun
Elizabeth Petrick: “The Annotated Patent History Digital Archive”
01.Jun
Alison Powell: “Undoing Optimization: The Smart City and Afterwards”
25.May
Emily West: "Buy Now. How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly."
05.May
Wendy Chun: “Racialized Technologies: Anti-Asian Hate and Sentiment Analysis”
12.Apr
Alessandro Delfanti: “The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon”
22. - 24.Feb
MECS Abschlusstagung “Selbstverständlichkeiten der Simulation” – ABGESAGT
11.Jan
Film-Event at Scala: “Masking Threshold”
15.Dec
Lecture “Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn”
14.Dec
Book Discussion “Neither Vertical nor Horizontal”
13. - 18.Dec
Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn
08. - 09.Dec
Conference “Unrelating: Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics of Disconnection”
07.Dec
Book Lauch “Discrimination Data”
07.Dec
Lecture “Disability, Embodiment, and Online Socialization: Computerized Conferencing Technology in the 1970s”
07.Dec
Colloquium “In Search of Media”
30.Nov
CDC Forum via Zoom “In Convenience”
23.Nov
Workshop “Daten sind das neue Öl? – Über systematische Zusammenhänge zwischen digitalem Zeitalter und Petromodern”
16.Nov
CDC Forum via Zoom “Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media”
04. Sep-14. Nov
Proof of Stake – Technological Claims. Group exhibition in Kunstverein in Hamburg
01. - 03.Jul
Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media, Conference (Keynote: Mara Mills), Wolfgang Hagen, Jan Müggenburg, Philipp Sander, Anna-Lena Wiechern
24.Jun
Algorithmic Ethnography with Angèle Christin, Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Randi Heinrichs
21.Jun
Zukunft machen. Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte des Silicon Valleys, Colloquium
08.Jun
Automation and the Future of Work in the Pandemic Economy, Lecture, Aaron Benanav
03.May
Book of Anonymity, Book Launch, Anon Collective
28.Apr
Your Computer is on Fire, Book Launch, Mar Hicks, Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Kavita Philip, In cooperation with SFB Media of Cooperation, Siegen
26.Apr
NEUDASEIN. Essays zur sozialen Epistemologie der Smartphone-Fotografie, Lecture and Book Launch, Wolfgang Hagen
13.Apr
Undoing Networks, Panel Discussion and Book Launch, Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst, Lea Zierott
18.Mar
Keynote: Critical Media Access Studies: Examining the Benefits and Limits of Accessibility in Mediated Spaces
18.Mar
Workshop: Augmentative Communication and Computer Access – Historical Approaches
17.Mar
Diskussionsforum: „Universität und Assistenz. Assistive Medien in Lehre und Forschung“
15.Mar
Call for Contributions: Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures
22.Feb
CDC-Forum: Data Demands: On New Storytelling Practices of Old Data Regimes (Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal)
27.Jan
Cancelled! CDC-Forum: Der Simulationsreaktor als Lernhilfe. Argonaut, Anwendungswissen und der Aufbau der Atomindustrie in der BRD
25.Jan
CDC-Forum: Disruptive Technologien (Workshop)
18.Jan
CDC-Forum: Good Enough Software: A Book Overview
07.Dec
CDC-Forum: Rethinking the "Standard" in Digital Standards
23.Nov
CDC-Forum: Stabile Daten, immune Körper: Narrative der Epidemie
09.Nov
CDC-Forum: Urban Extractivism: Data, Value and Computing Infrastructures
26.Oct
CDC-Forum: Spatial Conditions of Work and Play: Intangibility Replaces Haptic Experience
12.Oct
CDC-Forum: Wie kann man die industrielle Praxis der KI medienethnographisch erforschen?
06.Jul
CDC Forum: The space between us: Networks after the pandemic
22.Jun
CDC Forum: "Remote is the new normal"? Digitale und prädigitale Geschichten der Heimarbeit
08.Jun
CDC Forum: Simulating pandemics: Welches Wissen liefern Simulationen?
25.May
CDC Forum: Lost in Translation. Chancen und Barrieren der digitalen Lehre
18.May
CDC Forum: Überwachungs- und Krisenkapitalismus
04.May
CDC Forum: Epidemiologie der Serie
20.Apr
CDC Forum: Abwesenheitspflicht. Der Status von “Präsenz” in Zeiten der Pandemie
14.Apr
CDC Forum: Universität im Ausnahmezustand: „Nicht-Semester“ oder Business as Usual
30.Jan
Abstract Subjects. How an I becomes an X in new data calculations
23.Jan
Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode der digitalen Kulturen
16.Jan
Kritik der Environmentalität. Über den neuen Vereinnahmungsapparat in digitalen Kulturen
11.Jan
CDC-Forum: Pandemic Media
09.Jan
Digital Age. Geschichtskonzepte digitaler Kulturen
19.Dec
Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien digitaler Kulturen
18.Dec
Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
12.Dec
Workshop: Ephemera. Data & Drama
12.Dec
Trial and Lots of Error. Governance in Digital Cultures
11.Dec
Lecture: Virtual U: Simulating Higher Education
05.Dec
Algorithmisches Management in digitalen Kulturen
28.Nov
Software, Sociality, and Digital Cultures
22.Nov
DFG-Sym­po­si­um: Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften
21.Nov
Performing posthuman für digitale Kulturen. Episoden einer großangelegten Umstellung 1966 – 2019
14.Nov
Überwachen und Unterhalten. Organisation in digitalen Kulturen
13.Nov
Lecture: Im Paradis des Taktilen. Reale Experimentalsubjekte und spekulative Assistenzmedien
13.Nov
Lecture: Exhaustion of Copyright in Digital Objects
07.Nov
Exhibition: Filme des Windes
07.Nov
Workshop: Windkanäle. Wissen, Politik und Ästhetik bewegter Luft
30.Oct
Lec­tu­re: Platform Worlds
24.Oct
Einführung: Was sind digitale Kulturen?
23.Oct
Book Launch: In Search of Media
22.Oct
Lecture: The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
15.Oct
Digitalisierung und die geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe des kalten Krieges
03.Jul
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Sha­ne Den­son “Images of Di­s­cor­re­la­ti­on”
26.Jun
Discussion ›Against Presentism‹
24.Jun
“Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”
18.Jun
WORK­SHOP “Dis­con­nec­tion”
12.Jun
WORK­SHOP “Ma­king Sen­se(s). Die Me­dia­lität der Nah­sin­ne”
05.Jun
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Mar­tin Woe­s­ler “So­cie­ty 5.0 in Chi­na”
28.May
Michel Pêcheux – Ideologie und Diskurs
26.May
“Organizing creativity and attention”
22.May
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ben Pe­ters “On the Pro­ver­bi­al Stu­pid His­to­ry of Smart Tech­no­lo­gy”
15.May
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ga­brie­le Scha­ba­cher “Di­gi­tal Re­gimes of Con­trol. Bet­ween So­ci­al Uto­pia and Tech­ni­cal Failu­re”
08.May
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ru­pert Ga­de­rer “Shits­torm. Agi­ta­ti­on, Si­mu­la­ti­on und Kampf in di­gi­ta­len Le­bens­wel­ten”
24.Apr
EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Gott­fried Schnödl “Na­tu­ra­li­sie­ren, On­to­lo­gi­sie­ren, Öko­lo­gi­sie­ren. Zu Na­tur­vor­stel­lun­gen in Tech­nik- und Me­di­en­theo­rie”
10.Apr
WORK­SHOP “Data and Dra­ma. Sce­nes from Eth­no­gra­phic Field Work”
12.Feb
Mind the Game! Computer Games driving AI and transforming Society
24.Jan
WORKSHOP. Batterien enthalten? Elektrochemische Zellen als Medien des digitalen Zeitalters
09.Jan
MECS LECTURE. Stefan Willer: Verhinderte Zukunft. Präventionsfantasien in der Gegenwartsliteratur
19.Dec
BOOK SERIES LAUNCH. In Search of Media
18.Dec
Eva Illouz: Parting Ways: Authenticity vs. Social Critique
12.Dec
MECS LECTURE. Patrick Vonderau: Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music
07.Dec
WORKSHOP. Phänomene digitaler Kulturen
21.Nov
BOOK LAUNCH. Timon Beyes/Jörg Metelmann:The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture
21.Nov
WORKSHOP. The Arcanum in Digital Cultures
24.Oct
MECS LECTURE. Rudolf Seising: Anfänge von Digitalisierung und Algorithmisierung der Mustererkennung
17.Oct
BOOK LAUNCH. Andreas Bernard: Das Diktat des Hashtags
19.Sep
Conference // Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology
16.Sep
Summer School // Historiographies of Digital Cultures
06.Jul
Undergraduate Summer School // Sound and Vision in Digital Cultures
13.Jun
Workshop: Digital Labour and Migration
07.Jun
Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities
18.Apr
Booklaunch meson press
30.Jan
Oliver Nachtwey: Production Models of Digital Capitalism
24.Jan
CDC reading group with Fiorenzo Iuliano
17.Jan
Workshop – Politische Öffentlichkeit und Medientechnologien (in German)
11.Jan
Workshop – CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures
10.Jan
Chris Tedjasukmana: Zwischen Selbstentblößung und Selbstermächtigung
10.Jan
CDC reading group with Stefan Römer
20.Dec
CDC reading group with Dennis Tenen
13.Dec
CDC reading group with Megan Fernandes
05.Dec
Thomas Lemke: Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societie
21.Nov
Booklaunch – Clemens Apprich: "Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures"
21.Nov
Workshop – Post-X Politics
15.Nov
Booklaunch: Andreas Bernard: "Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes"
15.Nov
Mara Mills: Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression
15.Nov
Workshop – Sigrid Weigel: Grammatology of Images
14.Nov
Sigrid Weigel: On the Rise of Digital Stupidity
25.Oct
Workshop – Silicon Trolls. Net Cultures, Neo-Fascism and Technological Determinism
17.Oct
Book launch: "Performing the Digital" and "Nach der Revolution"
31.Jan
“Reparations” – Steve Kurtz
24.Jan
“Working on ENIAC: Design, Repair and Maintenance in the Early Digital” – Thomas Haigh
10.Jan
“The Politics and Aesthetics of Inventive Infrastructures of Repair” – Lara Houston
20.Dec
“The Ragpicker Meets the Composter: Maintenance, Repair and Transformation” – Kristina Lindström & Åsa Ståhl
13.Dec
“Repairing Futures: Anticipation, Participation and Speculation” – Laura Forlano
06.Dec
“Designing the Humanities” – Tara McPherson
29.Nov
Workshop “Designing the Self” – with Paula Bialski, Laura Hille, Andreas Bernard and others
16.Nov
“Designing Feminist Futures” – Kat Jungnickel
25.Oct
“Transforming Matter” – Felipe Fonseca
02.Sep
Hackademia: Ethnographic Project Presentation
01.Sep
Radical Engineering
31.Aug
From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek and the Astronomical Rise of Hacker Politics
30.Aug
Gagged and Doxxed
29.Aug
Concepts of/for Hacking, Leaking and Breaching
28.Aug
Historically informed ethnography: Contextualising hacker practices
30.Jun
Ecologies of Existence
29.Jun
Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics and the Labour of Circulation
28.Jun
Jennifer Gabrys: Program Earth
22.Jun
Tracing Bergson. Perspectives on Life and the Sciences
08.Jun
Reading Algorithms. Queer and Transgressive Encounters
01.Jun
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
31.May
Jason W. Moore in conversation with Erich Hörl: World-Ecology, General Ecology and Cyberneticization
19.May
Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition
27.Jan
Eva Illouz: Knowing way too much... Love, Therapy, Technology
26.Jan
Non-knowledge and digital cultures