Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele

Professor
Gender Studies
Gender Studies
k.thiele@uu.nl

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2024). Intra/Sectional Praxis: How to Think-Practice the World Otherwise. Manuscript submitted for publication. In J. Haase-Knöpfle, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Intra/Sections (Schnitt/Mengen): Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Muliplicity (Dispositiv der Menge). Brill / Fink.
Thiele, K. (2024). Critical Matters: Auto-, Sym- and Copoiesis in Ettinger, Haraway and Wynter (English Version). In S. Witzgall, & M. Kesting (Eds.), Human After Man (pp. 63-73). diaphanes. https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/critical-matters-auto-sym-and-copoiesis-in-ettinger-haraway-and-wynter-7541
Thiele, K. (2024). Copoiesis and Sympoiesis. How Can We Become More Human? How Can We Humanize? Bracha L. Ettinger in conversation with Kathrin Thiele and Susanne Witzgall (English Version). In S. Witzgall, & M. Kesting (Eds.), Human after Man (pp. 75-85). diaphanes. https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/copoiesis-and-sympoiesis-how-can-we-become-more-human-how-can-we-humanize-7542

2023

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2023). Kopoiesis und Sympoiesis: Wie können wir menschlicher werden, wie können wir vermenschlichen? Bracha L. Ettinger im Gespräch mit Kathrin Thiele und Susanne Witzgal. In S. Witzgall, & M. Kesting (Eds.), Human after Man (pp. 103-115). diaphanes. https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/kopoiesis-und-sympoiesis-wie-koennen-wir-menschlicher-werden-wie-koennen-wir-vermenschlichen-bracha-l-ettinger-im-gespraech-mit-kathrin-thiele-und-susanne-witzgall-7563
Ponzanesi, S., Thiele, K., Midden, E., & Olivieri, D. (2023). Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics: An Introduction. In S. Ponzanesi, K. Thiele, E. Midden, D. Olivieri, & T. oorschot (Eds.), Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics/Transities in Kunst, Cultuur and Politiek (pp. 9-24). AUP (Amsterdam University Press) / ICAS Publications. https://doi.org/20.500.12657/76676
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436471/10_5117_9789048560110_intro.pdf?sequence=1
Ponzanesi, S., Thiele, K., Midden, E., Olivieri, D., & Oorschot, G. C. M. (Eds.) (2023). Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics/Transities in Kunst, Cultuur en Politiek. AUP (Amsterdam University Press) / ICAS Publications. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048560110
Thiele, K., Donoghue, D., & Türer, P. (2023). Theory-Practicing in Critical Times: Viv Bozalek in Conversation With Kathrin Thiele, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Pınar Türer. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(1), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221099568
Thiele, K. C. (2023). Kritische Angelegenheiten: Auto-, Sym- und Kopoiesis bei Ettinger, Haraway und Wynter. In S. Witzgall, & M. Kesting (Eds.), Human after Man (pp. 89-102). diaphanes. https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/kritische-angelegenheiten-auto-sym-und-kopoiesis-bei-ettinger-haraway-und-wynter-7562

2022

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B., Thiele, K., & O'Leary, T. (2022). Introduction. In K. Thiele, B. M. Kaiser, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 1-16). (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield.
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & O'Leary, T. (Eds.) (2022). The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics. (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield. http://rowman.com/webdocs/TheEndsofCritiquePDF.pdf
Thiele, K. C. (2022). "After Humanism?": Time and Transformation in Critical Thinking . In K. Thiele, B. M. Kaiser, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 19-39). (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield.

Popularising publications

Thiele, K. (Author), & Hansen, I. (Author). (2022). Relation(al) Matters Archive: Online Conversation Series. Web publication/site https://relationalmattersarchive.nl/

2021

Scholarly publications

Quinan, C. L., & Thiele, K. (Eds.) (2021). Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics: Feminist and Queer Interventions. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Biopolitics-Necropolitics-Cosmopolitics-Feminist-and-Queer-Interventions/Quinan-Thiele/p/book/9780367714888
Thiele, K. C. (2021). Figuration and/as Critique in Relational Matters. In A. Haas, M. Haas, H. Magauer, & D. Pohl (Eds.), How to Relate: Wissen - Künste - Praktiken/Knowledge - Arts - Practices (pp. 229-243). (Wissen der Künste). transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457658-018

Professional publications

Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bolte, R., & Cuntz, M. (2021). Zwillingsträumer revisited. Über die Moderne(n) hinausträumen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 233-256). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Bolte, R. (2021). Leichenschau? Bio- und Thanatopolitiken exquisiter Kadaver. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 93-118). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Egert, G. (2021). Brief ins Jahr 2070: Sorge in kollektiven Gefügen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 21-50). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420281/Faltungen_1_Brief_ins_Jahr_2070_Sorge_in_kollektiven_Gefu_gen_Kaiser_Thiele_Egert_Bialas_1_51.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2020). Forms of Critique, Modes of Combat. In S. Khatib, H. Kuhn, O. Lochner , I. Mehl , & B. Söntgen (Eds.), Critique : The Stakes of Form (pp. 95-116). Univ. of Chicago Press.
Thiele, K. C., Allhutter, D., Bargetz, B., & Meißner, H. (2020). Materiality-Critique-Transformation: Challenging the political in feminist new materialims. Feminist Theory, 21(4), 403–411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700120967289
Thiele, K. C., Górska, M. A., & Türer, P. (2020). Relation(al) Matters: Vulnerable Pedagogies, Care and Carriance in Higher Education. In V. Bozalek, M. Zembylas, & J. Tronto (Eds.), Posthuman and Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies: North/South Ruptures and Entanglements (1 ed., pp. 51-65). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003028468
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414506/10.4324_9781003028468_5_chapterpdf.pdf?sequence=1
Quinan, C. L., & Thiele, K. C. (2020). Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics - Feminist and Queer Interventions: An Introduction. Journal of Gender Studies, 29(1), 1-8. Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1693173
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407817/Biopolitics_necropolitics_cosmopolitics_feminist_and_queer_interventions_an_introduction.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C. (Ed.), Bargetz, B. (Guest ed.), Althutter, D. (Guest ed.), & Meißner, H. (Guest ed.) (2020). Materiality - Critique - Transformation: Challenging the Political in Feminist New Materialisms. Feminist Theory, 21(4), 403-516.
Thiele, K. C. (2020). Figurieren als spekulativ-kritische feministische Praxis: Relationalität, Diffraktion und die Frage ihrer ‚Nicht-Unschuldigkeit’. In M.-L. Angerer, & N. Gramlich (Eds.), Feministische Spekulationen/spekulative Feminismen: Genealogien, Narrationen, Zeitlichkeiten (1 ed., pp. 43-61). Kadmos.
Thiele, K. C. (Guest ed.), & Quinan, C. L. (Guest ed.) (2020). Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics: Feminist and Queer Interventions. Journal of Gender Studies, 29(1), 1-114.

2018

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. C. (2018). Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics. In B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. 38-51). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Preface. In B. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. xi-xvi). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Introduction – Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities: Republished Introduction from Parallax Special Issue "Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings" (Parallax, 20.3 2014). In Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. 1-3). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (Eds.) (2018). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: An Introduction. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0000
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). If you do well, carry! The difference of the humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger by Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373569/project_muse_694764.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). Terrestrial. In R. Braidotti, & M. Hlavajova (Eds.), Posthuman Glossary Bloomsbury Academics.
Buikema, R. L., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). Feminism and Feminist Studies in Neoliberal Times: Furthering Social Justice in Higher Education Curricula. In V. Bozalek, R. Braidotti, T. Shefer, & M. Zembylas (Eds.), Socially Just Pedagogies.: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education (pp. 31-45). Bloomsbury Academics.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (Eds.) (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: Special Issue for philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-125.
Thiele, K. C. (2018). Was ist Politik? Ontologische Un/Verfügbarkeiten aus (neo)materialistischer Perspektive. In C. Bath, H. Meißner, S. Trinkaus, & S. Völcker (Eds.), Sektionsband Materialität: Verantwortung und Un/Verfügbarkeit – Impulse und Zugänge eines (neo)materialistischen Feminismus (pp. 28-43). (Reihe der DGS Sektion Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung). Verlag Westfaelisches Dampfboot.

2017

Scholarly publications

Buikema, R. L., Thiele, K. C., & Plate, L. (2017). Introduction. In Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide in Gender Studies (2nd ed., pp. 1-6). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of “1492”’. Parallax, 23(4), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374510
Thiele, K. C. (2017). The Arena of Knowledge: Virginia Woolf and the feminist Practice of Situated Knowledges. In R. Buikema, L. Plate, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies (pp. 52-66). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C. (2017). Der Schauplatz des Wissens: Virginia Woolf und die feministische Praxis situierten Wissens. In R. Buikema, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Doing Gender in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften: Eine Einführung (pp. 55-77). (Gender-Diskussion; Vol. 23). Lit Verlag.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). Terra. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 205-210). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357812/terra.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C. (2017). Entanglement. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 43-48). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380922/Thiele_Entanglement_Symptoms.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C. (2017). Affirmation. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 25-29). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380921/Thiele_affirmation_Symptoms_chap.pdf?sequence=1
Buikema, R. L., Thiele, K. C., & Plate, L. (Eds.) (2017). Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide in Gender Studies. Routledge.
Buikema, R. L., & Thiele, K. C. (Eds.) (2017). 'Doing Gender' in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften: Eine Einführung. (Gender-Diskussion; Vol. 23). Lit Verlag.
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & Bunz, M. (Eds.) (2017). Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary. Meson Press. http://meson.press/books/symptoms-of-the-planetary-condition/

2016

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2016). Of Immanence and Becoming: Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy and/as Relational Ontology. Deleuze Studies, 10(1), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2016.0215
Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2016). Other Headings: Ben Jelloun, Derrida, Sansal and the Critique of Europe. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 18(2), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1106965
Thiele, K. (2016). Quantum Physics and/as Philosophy: Immanence, Diffraction, and the Ethics of Mattering. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 30. https://doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/030.e04

2015

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. C. (2015). Kennis als strijdtoneel: Virginia Woolf en de feministische praktijk van gesitueerde kennis. In R. Buikema, & L. Plate (Eds.), Handboek genderstudies in media, kunst en cultuur (pp. 77-95). Coutinho.
Thiele, K. C., van der Tuin, I., & Asberg, C. (2015). Speculative 'before' the Turn: Reintroducing Feminist Materialist Performativity. Cultural Studies Review, 21(2), 145-172. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v21i2.4324
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/326555/Speculative.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. (2015). Theorizing is Worlding: Teaching Feminist New Materialism in Contemporary Feminist Theory Courses. In P. Hinton, & P. Treusch (Eds.), Teaching With Feminist Materialisms (pp. 101-111). ATHENA/ Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380915/196474745.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. (2015). Ende der Kritik? Kritisches Denken heute. In A. Allerkamp, S. Witt, & P. Valdivia Orozco (Eds.), Gegen/Stand der Kritik (pp. 139-162). diaphanes.

Other output

Kaiser, B. M. (Author), & Thiele, K. C. (Author). (2015). What is Critique in the 21st Century? Discussing Terra Critica: A Conversation between Birgit Mara Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele and Mercedes Bunz. Web publication/site, .

2014

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. (2014). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 72(3), 165-287. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/20/3#.VM4GRCfo-8w
Thiele, K. (2014). Pushing Dualisms and Differences: From ‘Equality versus Difference’ To ‘Nonmimetic Sharing and Staying With the Trouble’. Women : a cultural review, 25(1), 9-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2014.901110
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/304579/p_at_vw.pdf?sequence=3
Thiele, K. (2014). Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics. Parallax, 20(3), 202-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927627
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307627/Thiele_Ethos_of_Diffraction.pdf?sequence=3
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Diffraction: Onto-epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 20(3), 165-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927621

Professional publications

Thiele, K. (2014). Preface to Section 'Negotiating Technology and Mediation'. In D. Olivieri, & K. Leurs (Eds.), Everyday feminist research praxis: doing gender in the Netherlands (pp. 208-209). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380914/196162129_Thiele.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Weaving Ourselves Otherwise – Co-emerging with Others in the Matrixial. In B. Choi, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Grand Domestic Revolution: Handbook (pp. 93-94). Casco.

2013

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2013). Diesseits. In E. Horn, & M. Lowrie (Eds.), Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought: For Anselm Haverkamp (pp. 47-49). August Verlag.

2012

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Sich verlieren – und plötzlich eine Welt finden. Bracha L. Ettinger im Gespräch mit Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. In S. Leeb (Ed.), Materialität der Diagramme. Kunst und Theorie (pp. 231-262). (polypen). b_books.
Thiele, K. (2012). The World With(out) Others, or How to Unlearn the Desire for the Other. In B. M. Kaiser, & L. Burns (Eds.), Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (pp. 55-75). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030801_4
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380576/Thiele2012_Chapter_TheWorldWithOutOthersOrHowToUn.pdf?sequence=1

Other output

Thiele, K., Smith, M. S., & Marten, E. (2012). Beyond Equality vs. Difference: Thinking Through the Dualism. Panel at the 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

2011

Professional publications

Thiele, K. (2011). 'Difference in Itself' in Contemporary Feminisms. Potentia, 1(1), 16-19.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/259835/Difference%2520in%2520Itself_Thiele.pdf?sequence=1

2010

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2010). 'To Believe In This World As It Is': Immanence and the Quest for Political Activism. Deleuze Studies, 4(4, supplement), 28-45.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/259839/Thiele_DeleuzeStudies.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K., & Muhle, M. (2010). Konstellationen zwischen Politik und Leben. In M. Muhle, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Biopolitische Konstellationen (pp. 9-21). Augustverlag.
Thiele, K., & Muhle, M. (2010). Biopolitische Konstellationen. Augustverlag. http://www.augustbuch.de/?page_id=759

2009

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K., & Trüstedt, K. (2009). Lebenswissen nach Cavell: Eine Einführung. In K. Thiele, & K. Trüstedt (Eds.), HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (pp. 9-16). Wilhelm Fink.
Thiele, K., & Trüstedt, K. (2009). HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. Wilhelm Fink. http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-4725-8.html
Thiele, K. (2009). In Quest of Subjectivity. In K. Thiele, & K. Trüstedt (Eds.), HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (pp. 72-76). Wilhelm Fink.

Professional publications

Thiele, K. (2009). Politik, ein leeres Wort. Ein Kommentar zum gegenwärtigen Intellektuellenstreit. Texte zur Kunst, 76(December), 182-183.

2008

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. (2008). The Thought of Becoming. Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Life. diaphanes. http://www.diaphanes.de/scripts/buch.php?ID=129

2007

Professional publications

Thiele, K. (2007). Werden. In T. Khurana, & S. Diekmann (Eds.), Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff (pp. 234-239). Kadmos.

1998

Other output

Thiele, K. (1998). Dekonstruktion von citizenship und das Projekt radikaler Demokratie. 1st International Graduate Conference Postmoderne Diskurse zwischen Sprache und Macht, November 1998, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany.