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Books by Babette B. Tischleder
An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World. Eds. Birgit Spengler and Babette Tischleder, 2019
On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultu... more On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
The Literarty Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction, 2014
On the book: Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins huma... more On the book: Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Engaging a great range of American literature—from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen—The Literary Life of Things illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age. Eds. Babette Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman. New York: Palgrave , 2015
On the book: Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension... more On the book: Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode. Because obsolescence depends upon the supersession and disappearance of what is old and outmoded, this volume sheds light on what usually remains unseen or overlooked. Calling attention to the fact that obsolescence can structure everything from the self to the skyscraper, Cultures of Obsolescence asks readers to rethink existing relationships between the old and the new. Moreover, the essays in this volume argue for the paradoxical ways in which subjects and their concepts of the human, of newness, and of the future are constituted by a relationship to the obsolete.
Papers by Babette B. Tischleder
querelles-net, 2005
Am Beispiel kultureller Praktiken des Konsums, Ausstellens oder Sammelns untersucht Scholz, wie O... more Am Beispiel kultureller Praktiken des Konsums, Ausstellens oder Sammelns untersucht Scholz, wie Objekte als Medien sozialer Selbststilisierung fungieren. Es wird gezeigt, dass performative und literarische Geschlechterinszenierungen sich nicht nur auf den Korper, sondern wesentlich auf Dinge beziehen. Das Buch leistet so einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Gender- und Korpertheorie.
Feministische Studien, 1995
ESC: English Studies in Canada, 2005
New American Studies Journal
The Velvet Light Trap, 2017
Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light... more Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 2017, p. 81-125.
An Eclectic Bestiary, 2019
On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultu... more On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Open Cultural Studies
The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unifie... more The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unified approach; yet there is a general tendency to theorise objects by highlighting their agency, independence, and withdrawnness from human actors. Jane Bennett speaks of “thing power” in order to invoke the activities of “nonsubjects,” and she suggests to marginalise questions of human subjectivity and focus instead on the trajectories and propensities of material entities themselves. This essay takes issue with Bennett’s and other New Materialist thought, and it also offers a critical engagement with Bruno Latour’s notion of nonhuman agency. In his recent work, Latour has been concerned with the question of how we can tell our “common geostory.” Taking up his literary example (by Mark Twain) and adding one of my own (by William Faulkner), this essay argues that our understanding of the powers of rivers and other nonhuman agents remains rather limited if we attend primarily to the mechanic...
Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, & the World. Stanford University, 2017
Colloquy: "Thing Theory in Literary Studies." Curators: Sarah Wasserman, Patrick Moran. Arcade: L... more Colloquy: "Thing Theory in Literary Studies." Curators: Sarah Wasserman, Patrick Moran. Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, & the World (arcade.stanford.edu)
The Velvet Light Trap, 2017
Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 20... more Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 2017, p. 81-125.
Open Cultural Studies. Special Issue: MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies, 2019
The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unifie... more The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unified approach; yet there is a general tendency to theorise objects by highlighting their agency, independence, and withdrawnness from human actors. Jane Bennett speaks of "thing power" in order to invoke the activities of "nonsubjects," and she suggests to marginalise questions of human subjectivity and focus instead on the trajectories and propensities of material entities themselves. This essay takes issue with Bennett's and other New Materialist thought, and it also offers a critical engagement with Bruno Latour's notion of nonhuman agency. In his recent work, Latour has been concerned with the question of how we can tell our "common geostory." Taking up his literary example (by Mark Twain) and adding one of my own (by William Faulkner), this essay argues that our understanding of the powers of rivers and other nonhuman agents remains rather limited if we attend primarily to the mechanics of storytelling in the way Latour does. Rather, it is the aesthetic and experiential registers of literary worlding that offer alternative venues for imagining nonhuman beings and our interactions with them in the era of the Anthropocene.
America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun, 2016
An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World. Eds. Birgit Spengler and Babette Tischleder, 2019
On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultu... more On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
The Literarty Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction, 2014
On the book: Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins huma... more On the book: Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Engaging a great range of American literature—from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen—The Literary Life of Things illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age. Eds. Babette Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman. New York: Palgrave , 2015
On the book: Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension... more On the book: Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode. Because obsolescence depends upon the supersession and disappearance of what is old and outmoded, this volume sheds light on what usually remains unseen or overlooked. Calling attention to the fact that obsolescence can structure everything from the self to the skyscraper, Cultures of Obsolescence asks readers to rethink existing relationships between the old and the new. Moreover, the essays in this volume argue for the paradoxical ways in which subjects and their concepts of the human, of newness, and of the future are constituted by a relationship to the obsolete.
querelles-net, 2005
Am Beispiel kultureller Praktiken des Konsums, Ausstellens oder Sammelns untersucht Scholz, wie O... more Am Beispiel kultureller Praktiken des Konsums, Ausstellens oder Sammelns untersucht Scholz, wie Objekte als Medien sozialer Selbststilisierung fungieren. Es wird gezeigt, dass performative und literarische Geschlechterinszenierungen sich nicht nur auf den Korper, sondern wesentlich auf Dinge beziehen. Das Buch leistet so einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Gender- und Korpertheorie.
Feministische Studien, 1995
ESC: English Studies in Canada, 2005
New American Studies Journal
The Velvet Light Trap, 2017
Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light... more Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 2017, p. 81-125.
An Eclectic Bestiary, 2019
On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultu... more On the book: The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Open Cultural Studies
The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unifie... more The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unified approach; yet there is a general tendency to theorise objects by highlighting their agency, independence, and withdrawnness from human actors. Jane Bennett speaks of “thing power” in order to invoke the activities of “nonsubjects,” and she suggests to marginalise questions of human subjectivity and focus instead on the trajectories and propensities of material entities themselves. This essay takes issue with Bennett’s and other New Materialist thought, and it also offers a critical engagement with Bruno Latour’s notion of nonhuman agency. In his recent work, Latour has been concerned with the question of how we can tell our “common geostory.” Taking up his literary example (by Mark Twain) and adding one of my own (by William Faulkner), this essay argues that our understanding of the powers of rivers and other nonhuman agents remains rather limited if we attend primarily to the mechanic...
Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, & the World. Stanford University, 2017
Colloquy: "Thing Theory in Literary Studies." Curators: Sarah Wasserman, Patrick Moran. Arcade: L... more Colloquy: "Thing Theory in Literary Studies." Curators: Sarah Wasserman, Patrick Moran. Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, & the World (arcade.stanford.edu)
The Velvet Light Trap, 2017
Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 20... more Essay is part of the Dossier: "New Perspectives on Seriality." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 79, 2017, p. 81-125.
Open Cultural Studies. Special Issue: MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies, 2019
The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unifie... more The New Materialisms constitute a rich field of critical inquiry that does not represent a unified approach; yet there is a general tendency to theorise objects by highlighting their agency, independence, and withdrawnness from human actors. Jane Bennett speaks of "thing power" in order to invoke the activities of "nonsubjects," and she suggests to marginalise questions of human subjectivity and focus instead on the trajectories and propensities of material entities themselves. This essay takes issue with Bennett's and other New Materialist thought, and it also offers a critical engagement with Bruno Latour's notion of nonhuman agency. In his recent work, Latour has been concerned with the question of how we can tell our "common geostory." Taking up his literary example (by Mark Twain) and adding one of my own (by William Faulkner), this essay argues that our understanding of the powers of rivers and other nonhuman agents remains rather limited if we attend primarily to the mechanics of storytelling in the way Latour does. Rather, it is the aesthetic and experiential registers of literary worlding that offer alternative venues for imagining nonhuman beings and our interactions with them in the era of the Anthropocene.
America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun, 2016