Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special interest in aesthetics, affectivity and subject-formation. She is the author of Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (SUNY Press, 2011) and editor (with Lorna Burns) of Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze. Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), and Singularity and Transnational Poetics (forthcoming with Routledge), and her work appeared in International Journal for Francophone Studies and Textual Practice. She has also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica (www.terracritica.net). Email: b.m.kaiser@uu.nlKathrin ThieleKathrin Thiele is assistant professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is trained as a critical theorist with research expertise in continental philosophy, feminist theories of difference and posthuman(ist) studies. Her current research explores feminist cosmo-politics from a (post)humanist perspective, and with it she aims at the revitalization of critical analyses within the (new) humanities. She has authored The Thought of Becoming. Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Life (2008), and edited (with Katrin Trüstedt) HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (2009) and (with Maria Muhle) Biopolitische Konstellationen (2011). Her articles have appeared in Women: A Cultural Review and Deleuze Studies. She is also co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica (www.terracritica.net). Email: k.thiele@uu.nl