Rainer Mühlhoff is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Excellence Cluster "Science of Intelligence" at Technical University Berlin. He is also an associate fellow at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1171 "Affective Societies" at Freien Universität Berlin.

HIs work focuses on social philosophy, political philosophy of affect, philosophy of technology. Current topics are politics and ethics of artificial intelligence and Big Data. In his project on Critical Social Theory of the Digital Society he investigate the interplay of technology, affect and power. As part of the SFB project B05, he investigates into an affect theory of new authoritarianism.

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Mühlhoff, Rainer, Anja Breljak, and Jan Slaby, eds. Affekt Macht Netz: Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Sozialtheorie Der Digitalen Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783837644395.

Mühlhoff, Rainer. “Affekte Der Wahrheit. Über Autoritäre Sensitivitäten von Der Aufklärung Bis Zu 4Chan, Trump Und Der Alt-Right.” Behemoth 11, no. 2 (2018): 74–95. https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2018.11.2.989.

Mühlhoff, Rainer. Immersive Macht: Affekttheorie Nach Foucault Und Spinoza. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2018.

Slaby, Jan, Rainer Mühlhoff, and Philipp Wüschner. “Affective Arrangements.” Emotion Review 11, no. 1 (2019): 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917722214.

Mühlhoff, Rainer. “Affective Resonance and Social Interaction.”Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14, no. 4 (2015): 1001–1019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-014-9394-7.