Marcel Knöchelmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 292865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcel Knöchelmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcel |
| FAMILY NAME | Knöchelmann |
| SIGNATURE | KNÖCHELMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1050-1303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Sociology of Nature Writing
A genre devoted to a world relation that is becoming less and less available has never been institutionally stronger. Nature writing thrives – in prize cultures, dedicated imprints, canonical series, mass readerships – precisely as the reciprocity with the nonhuman world it narrates grows harder to achieve. The paradox is sociological. Nature writing is a practice of aesthetic compensation whose form is constitutively dialectical: it can render t…
Literary fiction as art and activism
Writing in the Sciences
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society
Literary fiction narrates ethical and moral meaning. It is rich with ethical conceptions of the good life and expressions of moral universalism, and it assumes a meaningful role in civil society through this richness. And yet, existing conceptions of cultural intermediation do not consider this richness; they are reductive in the way they focus on the social-structural space in between author and reader. Cultural intermediation is trimmed down to…
Resonance and culture
How can resonance in the reception of poetry be understood sociologically? How does the subjective response to poetic works relate to more general social and symbolic structures? I combine Hartmut Rosa's Resonance Theory with a cultural sociological perspective to illustrate how vertical spheres of resonance-art, nature, religion, or history-can be understood as structures of meaning. I demonstrate how actors transformatively adapt ( anverwandeln…
The Democratisation Myth
Open access (OA) in the Global North is considered to solve an accessibility problem in scholarly communication. But this accessibility is restricted to the consumption of knowledge. Epistemic injustices inhering in the scholarly communication of a global production of knowledge remain unchanged. This underscores that the commercial or big deal OA dominating Europe and North America have little revolutionary potential to democratise knowledge. Ac…
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society
Literary fiction narrates ethical and moral meaning. It is rich with ethical conceptions of the good life and expressions of moral universalism, and it assumes a meaningful role in civil society through this richness. And yet, existing conceptions of cultural intermediation do not consider this richness; they are reductive in the way they focus on the social-structural space in between author and reader. Cultural intermediation is trimmed down to…
Resonance and culture
How can resonance in the reception of poetry be understood sociologically? How does the subjective response to poetic works relate to more general social and symbolic structures? I combine Hartmut Rosa's Resonance Theory with a cultural sociological perspective to illustrate how vertical spheres of resonance-art, nature, religion, or history-can be understood as structures of meaning. I demonstrate how actors transformatively adapt ( anverwandeln…
The Democratisation Myth
Open access (OA) in the Global North is considered to solve an accessibility problem in scholarly communication. But this accessibility is restricted to the consumption of knowledge. Epistemic injustices inhering in the scholarly communication of a global production of knowledge remain unchanged. This underscores that the commercial or big deal OA dominating Europe and North America have little revolutionary potential to democratise knowledge. Ac…
Literary fiction as art and activism
Writing in the Sciences
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society
Literary fiction narrates ethical and moral meaning. It is rich with ethical conceptions of the good life and expressions of moral universalism, and it assumes a meaningful role in civil society through this richness. And yet, existing conceptions of cultural intermediation do not consider this richness; they are reductive in the way they focus on the social-structural space in between author and reader. Cultural intermediation is trimmed down to…
Resonance and culture
How can resonance in the reception of poetry be understood sociologically? How does the subjective response to poetic works relate to more general social and symbolic structures? I combine Hartmut Rosa's Resonance Theory with a cultural sociological perspective to illustrate how vertical spheres of resonance-art, nature, religion, or history-can be understood as structures of meaning. I demonstrate how actors transformatively adapt ( anverwandeln…
A Sociology of Nature Writing
A genre devoted to a world relation that is becoming less and less available has never been institutionally stronger. Nature writing thrives – in prize cultures, dedicated imprints, canonical series, mass readerships – precisely as the reciprocity with the nonhuman world it narrates grows harder to achieve. The paradox is sociological. Nature writing is a practice of aesthetic compensation whose form is constitutively dialectical: it can render t…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)