Iris Van Der Tuin
Biographic Data
| ID | 673838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Van Der Tuin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Tuin |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER TUIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1890-940X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Traversing, turning, and mobilizing as operators for a radical interdisciplinarity: Modeling local and complementary integration
This article examines how interdisciplinarity is operationalized today, a question explored in our graduate seminar Radical Interdisciplinarity, which was offered four times between 2019–2020 and 2022–2023 by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA). Together with students, we investigated the state of the art of interdisciplinary research. Building on analyses of enactive cognition, turns to practice, and mobilizations of quantum p…
Popularization Writing Skills Development: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Writing Process and Writing Outcomes in Nine Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Students
We report on a longitudinal case study (n = 9) about popularization writing skills in undergraduate interdisciplinary students. Writing skills were determined by analyzing components of the cognitive process model of writing proposed by Hayes. Keystroke logging and video observation were used to analyze the text construction process (the process level) in third-year writing. Genre knowledge (the control level) was analyzed through text analysis a…
Students’ teamwork behaviour in multidisciplinary student teams: An ethnographic case study
The great challenges of the modern age, such as climate change or global inequality, are complex problems that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Multidisciplinary teamwork is needed to bring together disciplinary insights and to create a more comprehensive understanding of these problems. Higher education should prepare students for working in multidisciplinary teams, but relatively little is known about how students interact in multidisciplinar…
Students’ structured conceptualizations of teamwork in multidisciplinary student teams using concept maps
The design of effective teamwork teaching and learning for multidisciplinary student teams is subject to debate both in research as well as in practice. As researchers and educators, we need to understand the context in which students learn by understanding their experiences and their own conceptualizations of teamwork in multidisciplinary student teams, because that is the frame of reference in which they operate. Using a concept mapping method …
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: Furthering transformative potential for students
In universities worldwide, there has been a movement away from mono-disciplinary towards multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary education, motivated by the notion that complex societal issues call for more than a single disciplinary perspective. To prepare students for a role in addressing these issues, flexibility within educational programs is needed for students to move within, across and beyond disciplines. Contrary to the intended orientation …
Introduction to “Mobilizing Creativity, Part 1”
Research Article| May 01 2023 Introduction to “Mobilizing Creativity, Part 1”: A Humanities Perspective Kiene Brillenburg Wurth; Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is professor of literature and comparative media, head of comparative literature, and a member of the MA program in medical humanities at Utrecht University. She has developed interdisciplinary research lines into intermediality, creativity, and experimental art and litera…
By Way of Introduction
Research Article| November 01 2023 By Way of Introduction: Creativity as Counterknowledge Kiene Brillenburg Wurth; Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is professor of literature and comparative media, head of the Department of Comparative Literature, and head of the MA program Medical Humanities at Utrecht University. She has developed interdisciplinary research lines into intermediality, creativity, and experimental art and literatur…
On Generative and Generational Interlinkages and Intersections: Interdisciplinarity in Humanities, Culture, and Art
This interview looks critically at how the humanities do not just study works of culture but work together with artists. Within the practice of a truly interdisciplinary approach, “artistic research” finds its way into the discussion as it operates at the intersection of many disciplines and as its transversal qualities continuously produce excess to maintain complexity within the given research context. These positions implicate us as researcher…
Almanac: Diffraction & Reading Diffractively
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When I say… travelling concepts
The authors use the concept of 'concept' to explain how we can improve interdisciplinary research in medical education by developing concepts into analytical tools
On the Intersection of Somatechnics and Transgender Studies
The relationship between transgender studies and somatechnics has been generative. In this reflection on the intersection between somatechnics and transgender studies, the editorial collective of the Somatechnics journal provides a brief outline of what has been accomplished in the latter through an engagement with the former. This reflection is not intended to be an exhaustive review of trans*-somatechnics relations. Instead, here we highlight t…
Teaching Thumbelina
This special issue of Somatechnics discusses ways in which higher education is not only a matter of the teaching and learning mind but also, and simultaneously so, a matter of teaching and learning bodies, technologies, built environments, and disciplinary regimes.Minds, materialities, technologies, and infrastructures are entangled in schools, classrooms, and other teaching and learning spaces.These entanglements are increasingly becoming the fo…
Design by Doing
The popular literature about design, quite widely available on the World Wide Web, features a useful distinction between 'doing by design' and 'design by doing'.The first slogan points at practices of following step-by-step manuals or taking tick-box approaches, the second at working toward solutions in more messy ways.Whereas linear manuals or top-down approaches can be adjusted to local situations, the local situation itself is often a 'meshwor…
Interfaces (for) Diffracting Technobodies: A Science-Humanities-Design Perspective for an Algorithmic Somatechnics
In response to some current examples of experimental interface design in times of the COVID-19 pandemic – corona data dashboards, a contact tracking app, and an art intervention of distance design in public space – this article brings perspectives and insights from multiple disciplinary fields, several concepts, and a set of arguments together for a ‘more comprehensive understanding’ ( Repko and Szostak 2021 ) of how these cases of design build (…
The Somatechnics of Social Categorisations
The Feminist Futures of Reading Diffractively: How Barad's Methodology Replaces Conflict-based Readings of Beauvoir and Irigaray
Quantum leaps happen in texts, too. This reading of the role of the quantum leap in Karen Barad's agential realism is necessary, because arguing that the diffractive reading strategy proposed by Barad's ethico-onto-epistemology mirrors the physical phenomenon of diffraction would indeed be representationalist. Reviewing how Barad-in her own oeuvre-has transformed diffraction into an innovative reading methodology that could not only potentially c…
Microaggressions as New Political Material for Feminist Scholars and Activists: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, the New Materialisms, and Popular Culture
This article discusses microaggressions as new political material for feminist scholars and activists. The article asks how the new materialisms may contribute to the conceptualisation and operationalisation of microaggressions. After all, and taking them at face value, the ontological status of microaggressions and their modes of operation are fascinating: what are these allegedly infinitesimal hostilities? How do they reach their target and, on…
Bergson before Bergsonism: Traversing "Bergson's Failing" in Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy of Art
How did the philosophy of Henri Bergson look before Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism? This article provides a situated answer to that question by performing a close reading of Susanne K. Langer's early engagement with Bergson in her monograph Feeling and Form from 1953. Both Bergson and Langer argue against polemical philosophizing. Such polemical modes of doing philosophy distort insight into the thought of the philosophers in question and in philoso…
Making Time (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University
Research Article| October 01 2015 Making Time (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University Iris van der Tuin Iris van der Tuin Iris van der Tuin is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.5.2.0187 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
Speculative Before the Turn: Reintroducing Feminist Materialist Performativity
This is a moment for new conversations and new synergies. While a wealth of contemporary speculative materialisms is currently circulating in academia, art and activism, in this article we focus upon a few ethico-political stakes in the different, loosely affiliated conceptions of ontologies of immanence. More specifically, we are concerned here with the very meaning of speculation itself after the many new headings of immanent ontologies, such a…
Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences
Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands
“Without an Analytical Divorce from the Total Environment”: Advancing a Philosophy of the Humanities by Reading Snow and Whitehead Diffractively
This article develops a philosophy of the humanities by reading C.P. Snow’s famous thesis of “the two cultures” through the early work of Alfred North Whitehead. I argue that, whereas Snow refers to Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, he ultimately paves the way for a reductive interpretation of humanities scholarship, which is a move that can be repaired by delving into Snow’s own reference to Whitehead following a diffractive reading meth…
The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts
Where on our bookshelves are Rosi Braidotti's works — Spinoza, French philosophy, feminism or in a category of their own? For those of us who have followed Rosi's nomadic pathway from analytic philosophy through currents of feminism to post-humanism, this book reminds us not just of her passionate engagement with ideas but also of the impact of her personality. The sheer breadth of her scholarship and her sympathies is mediated by her ability to …
Science in the performance stratum: Hunting for Higgs and nature as performance
Recent traditions such as posthumanism and new materialism propose that non-humans and matter are active participants in processes of signification, so that humans do not give meaning to matter, but matter and meaning co-constitute each other. Notably, Karen Barad's plea for ‘the study of practices of knowing in being’ implies that performativity – with its conforming as well as its norm-shifting effects – is situated at the very heart of both sc…
The Transversality of New Materialism
This article centres around three ways in which 'new materialism' or 'neomaterialism'—terms coined by DeLanda and Braidotti in the second half of the 1990s—can be called 'transversal'. New materialism is a cultural theory that does not privilege culture, but focuses on what Haraway would call 'naturecultures'. It explores a monist perspective of the human being, disposed of the dualisms that have dominated the humanities until today, by giving sp…
Speculative Before the Turn: Reintroducing Feminist Materialist Performativity
This is a moment for new conversations and new synergies. While a wealth of contemporary speculative materialisms is currently circulating in academia, art and activism, in this article we focus upon a few ethico-political stakes in the different, loosely affiliated conceptions of ontologies of immanence. More specifically, we are concerned here with the very meaning of speculation itself after the many new headings of immanent ontologies, such a…
Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto-Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation
Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele – for their thoughtful editing and the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this article. I would like to extend my thanks to Alex Hebing and Gregg Lambert for their generous engagement with my work.Notes1 The discussion can be retrieved from: [06/06/2013].2 Quentin Meillassoux in Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin, New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (Ann Arbor: Ope…
New feminist materialisms
From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation
Jumping Generations: On Second- And Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology
A Different Starting Point, a Different Metaphysics”: Reading Bergson and Barad Diffractively
This article provides an affirmative feminist reading of the philosophy of Henri Bergson by reading it through the work of Karen Barad. Adopting such a diffractive reading strategy enables feminist philosophy to move beyond discarding Bergson for his apparent phallocentrism. Feminist philosophy finds itself double bound when it critiques a philosophy for being phallocentric, because the setup of a master narrative comes into being with the critiq…
Deflationary Logic: Response to Sara Ahmed's `Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the “New Materialism” '
International audience
Microaggressions as New Political Material for Feminist Scholars and Activists: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, the New Materialisms, and Popular Culture
This article discusses microaggressions as new political material for feminist scholars and activists. The article asks how the new materialisms may contribute to the conceptualisation and operationalisation of microaggressions. After all, and taking them at face value, the ontological status of microaggressions and their modes of operation are fascinating: what are these allegedly infinitesimal hostilities? How do they reach their target and, on…
Bergson before Bergsonism: Traversing "Bergson's Failing" in Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy of Art
How did the philosophy of Henri Bergson look before Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism? This article provides a situated answer to that question by performing a close reading of Susanne K. Langer's early engagement with Bergson in her monograph Feeling and Form from 1953. Both Bergson and Langer argue against polemical philosophizing. Such polemical modes of doing philosophy distort insight into the thought of the philosophers in question and in philoso…
Feminist Theory in Intergenerational Perspective
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Interfaces (for) Diffracting Technobodies: A Science-Humanities-Design Perspective for an Algorithmic Somatechnics
In response to some current examples of experimental interface design in times of the COVID-19 pandemic – corona data dashboards, a contact tracking app, and an art intervention of distance design in public space – this article brings perspectives and insights from multiple disciplinary fields, several concepts, and a set of arguments together for a ‘more comprehensive understanding’ ( Repko and Szostak 2021 ) of how these cases of design build (…
The Somatechnics of Social Categorisations
Doing the document: Gender studies at the corporatized university in Europe. Part 2: Answering the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
11 September 2012. It is beautiful outside. Lingering summer. We are gathered at Castrum Peregrini at the Herengracht in Amsterdam, our inter(p)lace, to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Castrum Peregrini’s grand old lady Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht. Michael, inter(p)lace Castrum Peregrini’s current director, is holding the microphone and recollects some memories from Gisèle’s incredible life, which has been connected to all the grand…
Doing the document: Gender studies at the corporatized university in Europe
Rosemarie:Christmas Eve, 2011.7:30 p.m.I have been sitting in front of my computer on a phone call with our British consortium partner for more than an hour now.We are in the process of submitting an EU FP7 ITN and I am going through a long e-mail our partner sent earlier that day in which she lists the points we still have to discuss before she will be able to get the signature of her university's officials.Right now she is explaining the comple…
Non-reductive continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities: Working with Hélène Metzger’s philosophical reflections
This article engages with the philosophical reflections of the French historian of science Hélène Metzger (1886-1944) in order to develop a vocabulary for understanding the rise of non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities. The bibliography of current naturalist approaches in the arts and the human sciences is still in the making, but it is altogether clear that the trend is not scientist or historicist or relativist. Th…
The New Materialist “Always Already”: On an A-Human Humanities
It is to Jacques Derrida that most dictionaries, both “urban” and scholarly, ascribe “always already”, which oftentimes implies a linguisticist twist, that is, in the words of Jonathan Culler (2002
Feminist Theory in Intergenerational Perspective
n Contains fulltext :\n 64614.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Deflationary Logic: Response to Sara Ahmed's `Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the “New Materialism” '
International audience
Jumping Generations: On Second- And Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology
The Transversality of New Materialism
This article centres around three ways in which 'new materialism' or 'neomaterialism'—terms coined by DeLanda and Braidotti in the second half of the 1990s—can be called 'transversal'. New materialism is a cultural theory that does not privilege culture, but focuses on what Haraway would call 'naturecultures'. It explores a monist perspective of the human being, disposed of the dualisms that have dominated the humanities until today, by giving sp…
Pushing dualism to an extreme: On the philosophical impetus of a new materialism
A Different Starting Point, a Different Metaphysics”: Reading Bergson and Barad Diffractively
This article provides an affirmative feminist reading of the philosophy of Henri Bergson by reading it through the work of Karen Barad. Adopting such a diffractive reading strategy enables feminist philosophy to move beyond discarding Bergson for his apparent phallocentrism. Feminist philosophy finds itself double bound when it critiques a philosophy for being phallocentric, because the setup of a master narrative comes into being with the critiq…
The New Materialist “Always Already”: On an A-Human Humanities
It is to Jacques Derrida that most dictionaries, both “urban” and scholarly, ascribe “always already”, which oftentimes implies a linguisticist twist, that is, in the words of Jonathan Culler (2002
New feminist materialisms
New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
This book is the first monograph on the theme of “new materialism,” an emerging trend in 21st century thought that has already left its mark in such fields as philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, science studies, and the arts. The first part of the book contains elaborate interviews with some of the most prominent new materialist scholars of today: Rosi Braidotti, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad, and Quentin Meillassoux. The second part situates th…
The Ontological Force of Technicity: Reading Cassirer and Simondon Diffractively
This article contributes to contemporary philosophy of technology by carrying out a diffractive reading of Ernst Cassirer’s “Form und Technik” ( 1930 ) and Gilbert Simondon’s Du mode d’existence des objets techniques ( 1958 ). Both thinkers, who are here brought together for the first time, stood on the brink of the defining bifurcations of twentieth-century philosophy. However, in their endeavor to come to grips with the “being” of technology, C…
Doing the document: Gender studies at the corporatized university in Europe
Rosemarie:Christmas Eve, 2011.7:30 p.m.I have been sitting in front of my computer on a phone call with our British consortium partner for more than an hour now.We are in the process of submitting an EU FP7 ITN and I am going through a long e-mail our partner sent earlier that day in which she lists the points we still have to discuss before she will be able to get the signature of her university's officials.Right now she is explaining the comple…
Non-reductive continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities: Working with Hélène Metzger’s philosophical reflections
This article engages with the philosophical reflections of the French historian of science Hélène Metzger (1886-1944) in order to develop a vocabulary for understanding the rise of non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities. The bibliography of current naturalist approaches in the arts and the human sciences is still in the making, but it is altogether clear that the trend is not scientist or historicist or relativist. Th…
From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation
Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences
Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands
“Without an Analytical Divorce from the Total Environment”: Advancing a Philosophy of the Humanities by Reading Snow and Whitehead Diffractively
This article develops a philosophy of the humanities by reading C.P. Snow’s famous thesis of “the two cultures” through the early work of Alfred North Whitehead. I argue that, whereas Snow refers to Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, he ultimately paves the way for a reductive interpretation of humanities scholarship, which is a move that can be repaired by delving into Snow’s own reference to Whitehead following a diffractive reading meth…
The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts
Where on our bookshelves are Rosi Braidotti's works — Spinoza, French philosophy, feminism or in a category of their own? For those of us who have followed Rosi's nomadic pathway from analytic philosophy through currents of feminism to post-humanism, this book reminds us not just of her passionate engagement with ideas but also of the impact of her personality. The sheer breadth of her scholarship and her sympathies is mediated by her ability to …
Science in the performance stratum: Hunting for Higgs and nature as performance
Recent traditions such as posthumanism and new materialism propose that non-humans and matter are active participants in processes of signification, so that humans do not give meaning to matter, but matter and meaning co-constitute each other. Notably, Karen Barad's plea for ‘the study of practices of knowing in being’ implies that performativity – with its conforming as well as its norm-shifting effects – is situated at the very heart of both sc…
Doing the document: Gender studies at the corporatized university in Europe. Part 2: Answering the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
11 September 2012. It is beautiful outside. Lingering summer. We are gathered at Castrum Peregrini at the Herengracht in Amsterdam, our inter(p)lace, to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Castrum Peregrini’s grand old lady Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht. Michael, inter(p)lace Castrum Peregrini’s current director, is holding the microphone and recollects some memories from Gisèle’s incredible life, which has been connected to all the grand…
Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto-Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation
Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele – for their thoughtful editing and the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this article. I would like to extend my thanks to Alex Hebing and Gregg Lambert for their generous engagement with my work.Notes1 The discussion can be retrieved from: [06/06/2013].2 Quentin Meillassoux in Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin, New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (Ann Arbor: Ope…
Making Time (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University
Research Article| October 01 2015 Making Time (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University Iris van der Tuin Iris van der Tuin Iris van der Tuin is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.5.2.0187 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
Speculative Before the Turn: Reintroducing Feminist Materialist Performativity
This is a moment for new conversations and new synergies. While a wealth of contemporary speculative materialisms is currently circulating in academia, art and activism, in this article we focus upon a few ethico-political stakes in the different, loosely affiliated conceptions of ontologies of immanence. More specifically, we are concerned here with the very meaning of speculation itself after the many new headings of immanent ontologies, such a…
The Feminist Futures of Reading Diffractively: How Barad's Methodology Replaces Conflict-based Readings of Beauvoir and Irigaray
Quantum leaps happen in texts, too. This reading of the role of the quantum leap in Karen Barad's agential realism is necessary, because arguing that the diffractive reading strategy proposed by Barad's ethico-onto-epistemology mirrors the physical phenomenon of diffraction would indeed be representationalist. Reviewing how Barad-in her own oeuvre-has transformed diffraction into an innovative reading methodology that could not only potentially c…
Microaggressions as New Political Material for Feminist Scholars and Activists: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, the New Materialisms, and Popular Culture
This article discusses microaggressions as new political material for feminist scholars and activists. The article asks how the new materialisms may contribute to the conceptualisation and operationalisation of microaggressions. After all, and taking them at face value, the ontological status of microaggressions and their modes of operation are fascinating: what are these allegedly infinitesimal hostilities? How do they reach their target and, on…
Bergson before Bergsonism: Traversing "Bergson's Failing" in Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy of Art
How did the philosophy of Henri Bergson look before Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism? This article provides a situated answer to that question by performing a close reading of Susanne K. Langer's early engagement with Bergson in her monograph Feeling and Form from 1953. Both Bergson and Langer argue against polemical philosophizing. Such polemical modes of doing philosophy distort insight into the thought of the philosophers in question and in philoso…
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