PhD project:

Kafka Entangled. Das Werk Franz Kafkas aus Perspektive der Environmental Humanities / Kafka Entangled. The Works of Franz Kafka from the Perspective of the Environmental Humanities, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main,

funded by Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Thesis defense: 21.10.2024, grade: magna cum laude

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Articles:

Weisensel, Nicolas: Von getrennter Weltauffassung zu Naturenkulturen: Ludwig Boltzmanns Reisebericht Reise eines deutschen Professors ins Eldorado und Franz Kafkas Der Verschollene. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 4/2023, S. 31-66. (peer-reviewed) (Artikel)

Weisensel, Nicolas: Ökonomie der Überforderung. Reizüberflutung und labyrinthartige Strukturen in Franz Kafkas Der Verschollene. In: Schäfer, Georg; Schuster, Sören (Hrsg.): Auf philosophischer Expedition. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zur Ökonomie. Marburg, Metropolis, 2018. S. 13-26.

Presentations:

Transformed World(s) in the ‘New World’: Entangled Naturecultures in Franz Kafka’s The Man Who Disappeared (Der Verschollene).
Conference: Kafka Transformed, University of Oxford, 19.09.2024.

Kafka, Zen, and New Materialism. Kobe University / Hiroshima Philosophy Forum, 22.06.2023.

Crossing Anthropocentric Borders: Entangled Naturecultures in Franz Kafka’s The Man Who Disappeared.  Conference: The View from the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Epoch from Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives, University of Debrecen, 16.10.2022.

Reading Kafka in the Anthropocene. Toward a New Concept of Materiality. Entanglement, Naturecultures, & Vital Materialism. Hiroshima Philosophy Forum, 13.11.2021.

Was ist Odradek? (Kafka / Bennett) Diskussionsbeitrag, Forschungskolloquium Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS), Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 07.09.2021. 

Magazines:

Stechapfel Magazine (2012-2021): author and editor

Stechapfel is DIY, non-commercial, analogue, underground magazine for young literature, philosophy and arts with a very limited circulation. Different international artists have published their works in the magazine.

To get in touch with Stechapfel Magazine, please visit/contact:

www.stechapfelzeitschrift.blogspot.com

stechapfelstrudel(at)gmail.com