Rainer Stummer
(Un)Building Contradiction(s): Hegemony between Discursivity and Materiality
Research Interests
- Post-fundamentalism
- Radical Democratic Theory
- New Materialisms
- Political Ontology
- Political Theory of Ecology and the Climate Crisis
Vita
- Since 06/2025
Research Fellow / PhD-Candidate at the Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies, University of Bremen - 2023 – 2025
Research Administrator at the ERC Project PREDEF – Prefiguring Democratic Futures, University of Vienna - 2019 – 2024
M. A. Political Science, University of Vienna
Thesis Topic: Back to Concrete. Political Theory between Strengthened Matter and Weakened Form - 2014 – 2019
B. A. Political Science, University of Vienna & Stockholm University (Erasmus)
Thesis Topic: Reframing the Streets. Discourse analysis of the Volksentscheid Fahrrad protest movement in Berlin
Conferences, Workshops and Events
- 12.11.2025
Talk Discursivity and Materiality: An Antagonistic Relation at the Workshop Ungrounding the Political: the Contemporary Role of Antagonism, Contingency and Difference in Political Theory, University of Lissabon/PRT - 27.09.2024
Talk Unbesetzte Stadt. Urbane Präfiguration und ironischer Materialismus at the 29. Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft Politik in der Polykrise, University of Göttingen - 25.09.2024
Talk Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Geological Metaphor in Ernesto Laclau’s Postfoundational Imaginary at the 29. Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft Politik in der Polykrise, University of Göttingen - 10.04.2024
Talk Aktivismus und Partizipation in der Praxis – von der Initiative „Platz für Wien“ zur Vernetzung mit „Wir machen Wien” with Barbara Laa at the Ringvorlesung Aktive Mobilität, Vienna University of Technology/AUT - 17.11.2023
Talk Stein und Zeit. The Geological Metaphor in the Postfoundational at the Workshop Metaphors in Political Philosophy: Discussion on the A-Conceptual Regime of Philosophical Discourse, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla/MEX
Teaching
- SoSe 2025
Seminar Ökologische und materialistische Perspektiven auf den klassischen Kanon, University of Vienna - SoSe 2025
Seminar Diskursanalyse – Arbeiten an der Schnittstelle von Theorie und Praxis, University of Vienna - WiSe 2024/25
Seminar Ökologische und materialistische Perspektiven auf den klassischen Kanon, University of Vienna