Tanner, Jakob2019-03-132019-03-132016https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4340My short article is a critical comment on Hartmut Böhme’s position paper „Perspectives of cultural studies in historical and contemporary analytical perspective“. I share Böhme’s conviction that research projects in the broad and blurred interdisciplinary field of culture studies must be grounded in a flexible theoretical plot. However, Böhme’s paper does not meet this challenge. I try therefore to suggest two trajectories of significant importance in a paradigmatic way: On the one hand, the always controversial definitions of culture are scrutinized, thereby relying on a context-sensitive concept of „difference“ that allows grasping culture as a permanent and interference-prone process of translations. On the other hand, I focus on the impact, agency or effectualness of things against the background of a symmetrical anthropology and the actor-network-theory. In both cases, the analysis is orbiting around the notion of „cultural practices“ by demonstrating how tightly the media turn and the ontological turn are theoretically intertwined.deucultural sciencestheory of culturedifferencecultural practicesculturesymmetrical anthropologyactor-network theorything theorymaterial cultureontological turnmedial turnKulturwissenschaftKulturtheorieDifferenzkulturelle PraxisKultursymmetrische AnthropologieAkteur-Netzwerk-TheorieDingtheorieMaterielle Kulturontologische Wendemediale Wendeontological turnmedial turn30610.25969/mediarep/359210.1515/kwg-2016-00102451-1765