Eva Horn
Biographic Data
| ID | 364062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Horn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Horn |
| SIGNATURE | HORN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2026-4719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Collaboration and Co-finitude: An agenda of care and ends
Examining Implementation and Sustainability of Positive Behavior Support in Child Care Centers
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs
Luft als Element: Literatur, Klima und Thomas Manns Tod in Venedig
Das aktuelle Interesse an Phänomenen der Atmosphäre wie Wetter und Klima hat sich bislang vor allem auf die literarische Auseinandersetzung mit der frühen Meteorologie gerichtet. Der vorliegende Aufsatz schlägt eine wissenshistorische und ästhetische Erweiterung der Perspektive vor: ein Blick auf die sehr viel ältere, aber höchst wirkmächtige Tradition, Luft als Element zu verstehen. Von der antiken Medizin bis ins späte 19. Jahrhundert ist Luft …
Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction: An Introduction
Introduction
Scales II
The problems of scale raised by the Anthropocene are by no means restricted to questions of magnitude and the spatial dimensions of human agency. Political decisions have to deal with a ‘long-termism’ that exceeds the timescales of traditional policies of sustainability or trans-generational justice. The sheer heterogeneity of the processes involved and of the timescales at which they unfold makes it very difficult to squeeze the (pre-)history of…
Aesthetics
When an ‘aesthetics of the Anthropocene’ is invoked at exhibitions, seminars, and public discussions, it generally refers, in a broad-brush fashion, to ‘ecological crisis’, ‘global warming’, ‘the human footprint’, or to more specific problems such as pollution, species extinction, or issues of coexistence with other species. The Anthropocene fundamentally unsettles the dualisms that have long shaped not only theoretical and practical access to th…
Biopolitics
Biopolitics is concerned with managing cattle and corn, microbes and mosquitos. Biopolitics enacts a kind of double movement that runs parallel to the distinction between homo and anthropos, bios and zoe, and which is of essential importance for the Anthropocene. In contrast to the Malthusian biopolitics of scarcity, Erle Ellis is sketching a biopolitics of abundance which is predicated on the assumption that ecological carrying capacity can alwa…
Energy
If the Anthropocene is the geological epoch in which human activities begin to transform the Earth system in its entirety, then this must be linked to an increase in society’s use of energy. Theorists from Herbert Spencer onwards had considered the increase in energy efficiency as a hallmark of cultural progress: ‘culture evolves as the productivity of human labour increases’. The sources of energy and the energy converters used by society influe…
Genealogies
The earliest publications introducing the Anthropocene usually included short genealogies of its conceptual ‘antecedents’. A genealogy of Anthropocene thought must also include anthropological theories addressing the ecological and cognitive distinctiveness of the human being as a transformer of its natural environment. A cultural-historical genealogy of the Anthropocene focuses on the human as a geological force. While the anthropological approa…
Nature and culture
The binary distinction between nature and culture is a matter of course which shapes everyday life, but it also structures knowledge. The sciences, which deal with the world of things, are opposed to the humanities, which are concerned with the products of the human mind, with history, ideas, and art. This distinction rests on the assumption that nature and culture are essentially different: the two terms denote different ontological categories, …
Definitions
The Anthropocene is a concept that derives its extraordinary power from the countless controversies and criticisms it has provoked—not only in the humanities, but just as much in the natural sciences, albeit for different reasons. Radicalizing or even displacing the concept of sustainability, the Anthropocene reorders political priorities. The Early Anthropocene proposals declare any kind of human transformation of local biotopes to be ‘anthropoc…
The anthropos
This chapter analyses two lines of questioning that are connected but involve two entirely different ways of considering the human. While the first line of questioning focuses on small scales and examines the concrete ways in which people have changed their environments, the second asks about the specificity of the human relation to the world in contrast to that of other species. The anthropos is a conception of the human as a natural being and f…
Politics
The shape which the Anthropocene will assume depends on whether humanity manages to control its influence over the Earth system. Michel Serres’s The Natural Contract opens with a powerful image for the way in which new understanding of the Earth system has shifted the horizon of political action. The difficulties of coordinating the interests of the different parties with regard to climate policy are exemplary for the political challenges of the …
Scales I
The global ecological diagnosis of the Anthropocene, however, requires that perspective assume an entirely different scale: the planetary. Epistemologically speaking, scale variation becomes interesting at the very moment when size begins to matter, that is, when the quantitative upscaling leads to entirely new and different qualities of the object. The architectural model is a classic case of a scale effect, as small models of buildings or machi…
Conclusion
The Anthropocene challenges the humanities to place their knowledge and their methods in relation to the super-sized image of the planet which Earth system science and other scientific disciplines have drawn. It is important to emphasize that the lack of resonance of the Anthropocene concept in Asia does not seem to reflect a general lack of interest in global ecological problems. Wet-rice farming, which has been of essential importance for many …
The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, t…
The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age
Air as Medium
December 01 2018 Air as Medium Eva Horn Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature and Cultural Theory in the Department of German at Vienna University. Her most recent book is The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age (Columbia University Press, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature a…
Partisan, Siedler, Asylant
Herbst der Theorie
Die Fiktion von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung: Zu Text und Kontext der »Protokolle der Weisen von Zion«
Die Zukunft der Dinge. Imaginationen von Unfall und Sicherheit/The Future of Things. Imaginings of Accidents and Safety
This article examines cultural imaginings of the accident, understood as aesthetic forms of coping with both the accident’s structural imperceptibility and the impossibility of its representation. By distinguishing between the normal and statistically expected accident on the one hand, and the absolutely improbable accident on the other, this paper discusses the way in which causal relations and their latency can be observed and reconstructed thr…
Work on Charisma: Writing Hitler's Biography
Recent biographies of Adolf Hitler's life, especially those by Joachim C. Fest, Ian Kershaw, and Ludolf Herbst, have referred extensively to Max Weber's concept of charisma. The article raises the question of what it means to narrate the charisma of a historical figure such as Adolf Hitler. The implications of the concept of charisma must be understood in their social, political, and—most important—affective dynamics. Writing Hitler's biography a…
Logics of Political Secrecy
In the modern age, the political secret has acquired a bad reputation. With modern democracy's ideal of transparency, political secrecy is identified with political crime or corruption. The article argues that this repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. By outlining a genealogy of political secrecy, it elucidates the logic as well as the blind spot…
Logics of Political Secrecy
In the modern age, the political secret has acquired a bad reputation. With modern democracy's ideal of transparency, political secrecy is identified with political crime or corruption. The article argues that this repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. By outlining a genealogy of political secrecy, it elucidates the logic as well as the blind spot…
The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, t…
Air as Medium
December 01 2018 Air as Medium Eva Horn Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature and Cultural Theory in the Department of German at Vienna University. Her most recent book is The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age (Columbia University Press, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature a…
Examining different forms of implementation and in early childhood curriculum research
Inclusive preschool programs: Teachers' beliefs and practices
Communities, families, and inclusion
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs
Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Research Article| February 01 2008 Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Eva Horn Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-022 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eva Horn; Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance i…
"Waldganger, " Traitor, Partisan: Figures of Political Irregularity in West German Postwar Thought
In 1962 Carl Schmitt had a dream. In a global political situation characterized by a high-risk, though immobilizing, stalemate between the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, Schmitt dreamt of a figure capable of reanimating the frozen Cold War world. In a world which had drawn an insurmountable frontier between East and West, thereby splitting Germany in half, Schmitt dreamt of a warrior without frontiers or front lines. At the …
Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence
April 01 2003 Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence Eva Horn, Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Sara Ogger Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2003 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 Grey Room (2003) (11): 58–85. https:/…
Die Ungestalt des Feindes: Nomaden, Schwärme
Die ganze Brut, die in den Leib Germaniens / Sich eingefilzt, wie ein Insektenschwarm, / MuB durch das Schwert der Rache jetzo sterben.' Kleists Hermannsschlacht (1808), in der Hermann den Romern diesen Racheschwur nachschleudert, entwirft ein einigermaBen ungew6hnliches Bild des Feindes: ein ,,Insektenschwarm, der sich im Leib der Heimat ,,eingefilzt habe und nun zu vertreiben und auszumerzen sei. Die Metapher eines invasiven, zerstreuten und do…
Actors/Agents: Bertolt Brecht and the Politics of Secrecy
July 01 2006 Actors/Agents: Bertolt Brecht and the Politics of Secrecy Eva Horn Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 38–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.38 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn…
Inclusive preschool programs: Teachers' beliefs and practices
Communities, families, and inclusion
Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence
April 01 2003 Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence Eva Horn, Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Sara Ogger Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2003 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 Grey Room (2003) (11): 58–85. https:/…
Literary Research: Narration and the Epistemology of the Human Sciences in Alfred Doblin
There are novels which display their characters in a constrained, ineluctable situation and observe plot development as in a laboratory—mostly, so as to count the corpses at the end. Such novels are poetic experiments, they probe cause and effect, rules and processes brought to light by their exemplary narratives. Their intent is less representational mimesis than an analysis of natural laws. They are, as Michel Butor put it, "laboratoires du réc…
"Waldganger, " Traitor, Partisan: Figures of Political Irregularity in West German Postwar Thought
In 1962 Carl Schmitt had a dream. In a global political situation characterized by a high-risk, though immobilizing, stalemate between the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, Schmitt dreamt of a figure capable of reanimating the frozen Cold War world. In a world which had drawn an insurmountable frontier between East and West, thereby splitting Germany in half, Schmitt dreamt of a warrior without frontiers or front lines. At the …
Actors/Agents: Bertolt Brecht and the Politics of Secrecy
July 01 2006 Actors/Agents: Bertolt Brecht and the Politics of Secrecy Eva Horn Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 38–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.38 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn…
Die Ungestalt des Feindes: Nomaden, Schwärme
Die ganze Brut, die in den Leib Germaniens / Sich eingefilzt, wie ein Insektenschwarm, / MuB durch das Schwert der Rache jetzo sterben.' Kleists Hermannsschlacht (1808), in der Hermann den Romern diesen Racheschwur nachschleudert, entwirft ein einigermaBen ungew6hnliches Bild des Feindes: ein ,,Insektenschwarm, der sich im Leib der Heimat ,,eingefilzt habe und nun zu vertreiben und auszumerzen sei. Die Metapher eines invasiven, zerstreuten und do…
Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Research Article| February 01 2008 Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Eva Horn Eva Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-022 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eva Horn; Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance i…
Der Feind als Netzwerk und Schwarm. Eine Epistemologie der Abwehr
Examining different forms of implementation and in early childhood curriculum research
Die Zukunft der Dinge. Imaginationen von Unfall und Sicherheit/The Future of Things. Imaginings of Accidents and Safety
This article examines cultural imaginings of the accident, understood as aesthetic forms of coping with both the accident’s structural imperceptibility and the impossibility of its representation. By distinguishing between the normal and statistically expected accident on the one hand, and the absolutely improbable accident on the other, this paper discusses the way in which causal relations and their latency can be observed and reconstructed thr…
Work on Charisma: Writing Hitler's Biography
Recent biographies of Adolf Hitler's life, especially those by Joachim C. Fest, Ian Kershaw, and Ludolf Herbst, have referred extensively to Max Weber's concept of charisma. The article raises the question of what it means to narrate the charisma of a historical figure such as Adolf Hitler. The implications of the concept of charisma must be understood in their social, political, and—most important—affective dynamics. Writing Hitler's biography a…
Logics of Political Secrecy
In the modern age, the political secret has acquired a bad reputation. With modern democracy's ideal of transparency, political secrecy is identified with political crime or corruption. The article argues that this repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. By outlining a genealogy of political secrecy, it elucidates the logic as well as the blind spot…
Die Fiktion von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung: Zu Text und Kontext der »Protokolle der Weisen von Zion«
Partisan, Siedler, Asylant
Herbst der Theorie
The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age
Air as Medium
December 01 2018 Air as Medium Eva Horn Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature and Cultural Theory in the Department of German at Vienna University. Her most recent book is The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age (Columbia University Press, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Eva Horn Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature a…
Scales II
The problems of scale raised by the Anthropocene are by no means restricted to questions of magnitude and the spatial dimensions of human agency. Political decisions have to deal with a ‘long-termism’ that exceeds the timescales of traditional policies of sustainability or trans-generational justice. The sheer heterogeneity of the processes involved and of the timescales at which they unfold makes it very difficult to squeeze the (pre-)history of…
Aesthetics
When an ‘aesthetics of the Anthropocene’ is invoked at exhibitions, seminars, and public discussions, it generally refers, in a broad-brush fashion, to ‘ecological crisis’, ‘global warming’, ‘the human footprint’, or to more specific problems such as pollution, species extinction, or issues of coexistence with other species. The Anthropocene fundamentally unsettles the dualisms that have long shaped not only theoretical and practical access to th…
Biopolitics
Biopolitics is concerned with managing cattle and corn, microbes and mosquitos. Biopolitics enacts a kind of double movement that runs parallel to the distinction between homo and anthropos, bios and zoe, and which is of essential importance for the Anthropocene. In contrast to the Malthusian biopolitics of scarcity, Erle Ellis is sketching a biopolitics of abundance which is predicated on the assumption that ecological carrying capacity can alwa…
Energy
If the Anthropocene is the geological epoch in which human activities begin to transform the Earth system in its entirety, then this must be linked to an increase in society’s use of energy. Theorists from Herbert Spencer onwards had considered the increase in energy efficiency as a hallmark of cultural progress: ‘culture evolves as the productivity of human labour increases’. The sources of energy and the energy converters used by society influe…
Genealogies
The earliest publications introducing the Anthropocene usually included short genealogies of its conceptual ‘antecedents’. A genealogy of Anthropocene thought must also include anthropological theories addressing the ecological and cognitive distinctiveness of the human being as a transformer of its natural environment. A cultural-historical genealogy of the Anthropocene focuses on the human as a geological force. While the anthropological approa…
Nature and culture
The binary distinction between nature and culture is a matter of course which shapes everyday life, but it also structures knowledge. The sciences, which deal with the world of things, are opposed to the humanities, which are concerned with the products of the human mind, with history, ideas, and art. This distinction rests on the assumption that nature and culture are essentially different: the two terms denote different ontological categories, …
Definitions
The Anthropocene is a concept that derives its extraordinary power from the countless controversies and criticisms it has provoked—not only in the humanities, but just as much in the natural sciences, albeit for different reasons. Radicalizing or even displacing the concept of sustainability, the Anthropocene reorders political priorities. The Early Anthropocene proposals declare any kind of human transformation of local biotopes to be ‘anthropoc…
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