Thomas Jellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 81570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Jellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Jellis |
| SIGNATURE | JELLIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5094-4307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
World-ending flatness
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
Odds and Ends
In this paper I reflect on the odds and ends of research – that is to say, the fragments of notes, the miscellanea of drafts, the offcuts of applications, the keepsakes of fieldwork; in short, the archival remains of unfinished research. Through a discussion of failure, loss, the incomplete, and the abandoned, the paper poses questions about the threshold of endings. At what point does something fall by the wayside, never to be returned to? More …
An untimely geographer: Friedrich Engels, ideas and geography in Oxford
Friedrich Engels is something of a minor figure in geography. In this commentary, we trace Engels’ association with Oxford Geography as a point of departure for examining the major and minor registers of an Engellian geography
Besides affirmationism? On geography and negativity
This paper poses questions on the possibility of styles of working besides "affirmationism." We hone in on three ostensible limits of affirmationism: affirmationist vitalism, affirmationist politics, and affirmationist critique. Encountering these limits, we argue for the ongoing need to embrace attempts to think and act that elude, or dispense with, the propensity to affirm
Micropolitics and the minor
Micropolitical investments and minor theoretical energies are of growing concern to geographers, yet conceptual ambiguity has inhibited broader discussion and deployment of these terms, even if they are the pivots of what we understand as, or take to be, the 'political'. In an effort to reinvigorate a dialogue about these crucial but underplayed concepts, and in an effort to push a micropolitical ethos in and of itself, we introduce a forum compo…
Geoaesthetics redux
A lovesick note to the impractical
In this brief response we thank the commentators for their provocations, give-in to a certain lovesickness, sing-a-long with Alanis Morisette and conclude with a little tender contempt
Guattari: Impractical philosophy
In the midst of a certain zeal for ‘French Theory’ in human geography and the social sciences of late, there has been something of a rush to operationalize Guattari (among others) in a pseudo-methodological manner; something we’re unashamedly guilty of ourselves. It’s easy to see why: journeying between cartography, metamodelisation, tracing, transversality, enunciation and diagramming, Guattari offers a seductive array of concepts and philosophi…
Psychoanalytic geographies
Spatial experiments: Art, Geography, Pedagogy
The relation between geography and art has attracted considerable interest over the past decade. This interview with the contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson responds to the calls for cross-disciplinary dialogue, which is nevertheless attentive to space and spatial imaginaries. The interview explores the relations between art and geography, with excursions into questions of theory, pedagogy and experiments
Besides affirmationism? On geography and negativity
This paper poses questions on the possibility of styles of working besides "affirmationism." We hone in on three ostensible limits of affirmationism: affirmationist vitalism, affirmationist politics, and affirmationist critique. Encountering these limits, we argue for the ongoing need to embrace attempts to think and act that elude, or dispense with, the propensity to affirm
Micropolitics and the minor
Micropolitical investments and minor theoretical energies are of growing concern to geographers, yet conceptual ambiguity has inhibited broader discussion and deployment of these terms, even if they are the pivots of what we understand as, or take to be, the 'political'. In an effort to reinvigorate a dialogue about these crucial but underplayed concepts, and in an effort to push a micropolitical ethos in and of itself, we introduce a forum compo…
Guattari: Impractical philosophy
In the midst of a certain zeal for ‘French Theory’ in human geography and the social sciences of late, there has been something of a rush to operationalize Guattari (among others) in a pseudo-methodological manner; something we’re unashamedly guilty of ourselves. It’s easy to see why: journeying between cartography, metamodelisation, tracing, transversality, enunciation and diagramming, Guattari offers a seductive array of concepts and philosophi…
Psychoanalytic geographies
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
Spatial experiments: Art, Geography, Pedagogy
The relation between geography and art has attracted considerable interest over the past decade. This interview with the contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson responds to the calls for cross-disciplinary dialogue, which is nevertheless attentive to space and spatial imaginaries. The interview explores the relations between art and geography, with excursions into questions of theory, pedagogy and experiments
Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
World-ending flatness
Odds and Ends
In this paper I reflect on the odds and ends of research – that is to say, the fragments of notes, the miscellanea of drafts, the offcuts of applications, the keepsakes of fieldwork; in short, the archival remains of unfinished research. Through a discussion of failure, loss, the incomplete, and the abandoned, the paper poses questions about the threshold of endings. At what point does something fall by the wayside, never to be returned to? More …
A lovesick note to the impractical
In this brief response we thank the commentators for their provocations, give-in to a certain lovesickness, sing-a-long with Alanis Morisette and conclude with a little tender contempt
A lovesick note to the impractical
In this brief response we thank the commentators for their provocations, give-in to a certain lovesickness, sing-a-long with Alanis Morisette and conclude with a little tender contempt
Guattari: Impractical philosophy
In the midst of a certain zeal for ‘French Theory’ in human geography and the social sciences of late, there has been something of a rush to operationalize Guattari (among others) in a pseudo-methodological manner; something we’re unashamedly guilty of ourselves. It’s easy to see why: journeying between cartography, metamodelisation, tracing, transversality, enunciation and diagramming, Guattari offers a seductive array of concepts and philosophi…
Psychoanalytic geographies
Spatial experiments: Art, Geography, Pedagogy
The relation between geography and art has attracted considerable interest over the past decade. This interview with the contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson responds to the calls for cross-disciplinary dialogue, which is nevertheless attentive to space and spatial imaginaries. The interview explores the relations between art and geography, with excursions into questions of theory, pedagogy and experiments
Geoaesthetics redux
Micropolitics and the minor
Micropolitical investments and minor theoretical energies are of growing concern to geographers, yet conceptual ambiguity has inhibited broader discussion and deployment of these terms, even if they are the pivots of what we understand as, or take to be, the 'political'. In an effort to reinvigorate a dialogue about these crucial but underplayed concepts, and in an effort to push a micropolitical ethos in and of itself, we introduce a forum compo…
Besides affirmationism? On geography and negativity
This paper poses questions on the possibility of styles of working besides "affirmationism." We hone in on three ostensible limits of affirmationism: affirmationist vitalism, affirmationist politics, and affirmationist critique. Encountering these limits, we argue for the ongoing need to embrace attempts to think and act that elude, or dispense with, the propensity to affirm
An untimely geographer: Friedrich Engels, ideas and geography in Oxford
Friedrich Engels is something of a minor figure in geography. In this commentary, we trace Engels’ association with Oxford Geography as a point of departure for examining the major and minor registers of an Engellian geography
Odds and Ends
In this paper I reflect on the odds and ends of research – that is to say, the fragments of notes, the miscellanea of drafts, the offcuts of applications, the keepsakes of fieldwork; in short, the archival remains of unfinished research. Through a discussion of failure, loss, the incomplete, and the abandoned, the paper poses questions about the threshold of endings. At what point does something fall by the wayside, never to be returned to? More …
Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise
In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of w…
World-ending flatness
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)