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urn:uuid:4ceae956-a5a3-43a5-96a7-ae87f0cb1b21 03 15 9783957960863 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Symptoms of the Planetary Condition A Critical Vocabulary 1 B01 Mercedes Bunz Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, London where she teaches media studies and journalism. Her work combines technology and digital media, philosophy, and publishing. Her most recent book is The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise (2014). She is co-founder of the open access publishing house meson press. From 2009–2010 she was the technology reporter of The Guardian. 2 B01 Birgit Mara Kaiser Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University. Her research interests are aesthetics and affect, Deleuzian and (new) materialist literary criticism, postcolonial and transnational literature. Recent publications include Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (2011), Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze (2012, ed. with L. Burns), “Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities” Parallax (2014, ed. with K. Thiele), Singularity and Transnational Poetics (2015, ed.). She currently works on a book project on Cixous, Guattari and the production of subjectivity. With K. Thiele, she is founder and coordinator of Terra Critica. 3 B01 Kathrin Thiele Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and 271 Critical Theory at Utrecht University. Her research expertise lies in feminist and continental philosophies, theories of difference(s), and posthuman(ist) studies. Most recently she edited “Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities” Parallax (2014, ed. with B. M. Kaiser), Doing Gender in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften: Eine Einführung (2016, ed. with R. Buikema) and Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies (2017, ed. with R. Buikema and L. Plate). With B. M. Kaiser, she is founder and coordinator of Terra Critica. 4 A01 Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at Utrecht University. Kiene works on literature and (new) media, music, aesthetic theory. She is author of Musically Sublime (2007) and Literature and the Future of Writing (forthcoming), editor of Between and Screen (2009), Book Presence (forthcoming) and Literature and the Material Turn, a special issue of Comparative Literature (forthcoming). 5 A01 Rosemarie Buikema Rosemarie Buikema is Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Genderprogramme and is scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG). In that capacity she also co-ordinates the UU share in the Erasmus Mundus Master in Genderstudies GEMMA, the Horizon 2020 ITN Cultures of Equality (GRACE) and the annual international Summerschool in Genderstudies (NOISE). She has widely published in the field of feminist and postcolonial theory. Her latest publications are Doing Gender in Media Art and Culture (2017, ed. with L. Plate and K. Thiele) and Theories and Methodologies in Feminist Research (2011, ed. with G. Griffin and N. Lykke). Her forthcoming monograph Revolutions in Cultural Critique (2017) concerns the role of the arts in processes of political transitions. 6 A01 Kári Driscoll Kári Driscoll is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD in German Language and Literature from Columbia University. His research focuses on the poetics of 8 animality (zoopoetics). He is author of Book Presence in a Digital Age (2017; ed. with K. Brillenburg-Wurth and J. Pressman), and of Memory after Humanism, a special issue of Parallax (2017, ed. with S. C. Knittel). 7 A01 Yvonne Förster Yvonne Förster is Professor for Philosophy of Culture and Art at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany). Her research and publications focus on theories of embodiment, phenomenology, philosophical foundations of posthumanism, aesthetics and fashion theory. She published Experience and Ontology of Time. Perspectives of Modern Philosophy of Time (2012) and is currently working on the impact of neuroscience and technology as narratives of the post-postmodern era. 8 A01 Annemie Halsema Annemie Halsema is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests are in the field of phenomenology, hermeneutics and feminist philosophy. She published two books on Luce Irigaray (Dialectiek van de seksuele differentie [1998]; Luce Irigaray and Horizontal Transcendence [2010]); a volume on Paul Ricoeur (Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy [2016, ed. with F. Henriques], and a volume in Dutch on Judith Butler (Genderturbulentie [2000]). 9 A01 Leonard Lawlor Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University, where he continues to teach and serve as Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy. He is the author of seven books, among which are: This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality in Derrida (2007), and Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (2002). His most recent book is called From Violence to Speaking out (2016), published with Edinburgh University Press. 10 A01 Jacques Lezra Jacques Lezra is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at New York University, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California – Riverside. His work straddles the fields of political philosophy and early modern literary studies. Lezra’s most recent books are Contra los fueros de la muerte: El suceso cervantino (2016), Lucretius and Modernity (2016), and Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (2010). He is the co-translator into Spanish of Paul de Man’s Blindness and Insight, and the co-editor of Dictionary of Untranslatables (2014) and of Sebastián de Covarrubias’s ca. 1613 Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua …’ (2001). 11 A01 Sam McAuliffe Sam McAuliffe is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His teaching and research is chiefly devoted to modern European philosophy, in particular its intersection with modern and contemporary art and aesthetics. He has published articles on Adorno and Deleuze, and is currently working on his first monograph, a reading of Blanchot’s thesis: “speaking is not seeing.” 12 A01 Timothy O’Leary Timothy O’Leary is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively on the work of Michel Foucault, in particular in relation to ethics and literature. He has also edited several volumes and journal special issues on topics including Foucault, classical Chinese ethics, happiness, and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. 13 A01 Bettina Papenburg Bettina Papenburg is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. She teaches, researches and publishes on topics at the intersections of affect theory, theories of the body, feminist theory, science and technology studies, visual culture, and the grotesque. She was Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2009–2011) and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies (2011–2013) at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 14 A01 Esther Peeren Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, Vice-Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and Vice-Director of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS). She is the author of The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (2014) and Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (2008), as well as the co-editor of Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture (2010), The Spectralities Reader (2013) and Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present (2016). 15 A01 Asja Szafraniec Asja Szafraniec teaches at Amsterdam University College. She is the author of Beckett, Derrida and the Event of Literature (2007) and Words. Religious Language Matters (2016, ed. with E. van den Hemel). Her research focuses on the relation between various strands of contemporary philosophy and a range of cultural phenomena. 16 A01 Melanie Sehgal Melanie Sehgal is holding a PhD in philosophy and is currently Professor of Literature, Science and Media Studies at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). She is the author of Eine situierte Metaphysik. Empirismus und Spekulation bei William James und Alfred North Whitehead (2016). Together with artist Alex Martinis Roe she is leading the transdisciplinary and experimental working group FORMATIONS, exploring ways of knowing beyond modern habits of thought. 18 A01 Sybrandt van Keulen Sybrandt van Keulen is philosopher, editor and independent researcher. He lectured at several Dutch institutes including the University of Amsterdam, the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), Frank Mohr Institute (Groningen), PhdArts (The Hague). His most recent publication is How Art and Philosophy work (Hoe kunst en filosofie werken [2014]). His PhD thesis appeared in 2005 entitled Kosmopolitieken (Cosmopolitics, according to Kant, Levi-Strauss and Derrida). 19 A01 Veronica Vasterling Veronica Vasterling is Associate Professor Gender & Philosophy at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has published widely on the work of Judith Butler and Hannah Arendt. She co-edited books on female philosophers from Antiquity to the present time (Vrouwelijke filosofen: Een historisch overzicht [2014]), on interdisciplinarity (Practising Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies [2006]), and on feminist philosophy (Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik [2005]). 20 A01 Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at The Pennsylvania State University. Her most recent book is Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions (2013), and her many essays range in topic from utopian literature and feminist aesthetics to environmental art and literature, focusing on the ecological impacts of plastic waste. Wagner-Lawlor currently serves as president of the international Society for Utopian Studies. 01 eng 00 272 03 04 AZ(20)-999 12 HP 10 PHI000000 23 technology 04 HM621-656 23 humanities 12 JFFS 10 LIT020000 12 JF 23 literature 10 POL033000 23 globalization 12 TBX 23 politics 23 critical theory 23 critique 01 06 03 00 This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To get to the symptoms, the book’s 38 terms ranging from affect and affirmation to world and work provide the reader with a critical toolbox to be continued. Negativity, judgment and opposition as modes of critique have run out of steam. Critique as an attitude and a manner of enquiry has not. meson press 01 meson press 04 01 20170102 02 WORLD 06 15 9783957960856 06 15 9783957960863 WORLD 09 meson press 20 01