Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Thiele, K., & Haase-Knöpfle, J. (2025). Introduction. In Intra/Sections: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity (pp. vii-xx). (Dispositiv der Menge; Vol. 4). Brill | Fink. https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9783846767344/front-7.xml
Kaiser, B., Thiele, K., Avelino, F., Jansen, E., Wijsman, K., & Paterino, A. (2025). Power and polycrisis: on the durability of Capitalism-patriarchy-Colonialism (CPC). In G. Gallarotti (Ed.), Political Power and Crisis: Essays on Political Power Dynamics in Turbulent Times (pp. 147-164). Routledge. [DOI] [Portal]
Haase-Knöpfle, J., & Thiele, K. (Eds.) (2025). Intra/Section (Schnitt/Mengen): Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity. (Dispositiv der Menge). Brill | Fink.
Thiele, K. (2025). Intra/Sectional Praxis: How to Think-Practice the World Otherwise. In J. Haase-Knöpfle, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Intra/Sections (Schnitt/Mengen): Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Muliplicity (Dispositiv der Menge). Brill | Fink.
2024
Scholarly publications
Allhutter, D., Bargetz, B., Brøgger, K., Cielemęcka, O., González Ramos, A. M., Meißner, H., Revelles-Benavente, B., Rogowska-Stangret, M., Stark, W., Staunæs, D., & Thiele, K. (2024). The Politics of Feminist New Materialisms: Insights from Experimenting with Academic Practices. In Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms (pp. 384-406). Edinburgh University Press. [DOI]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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., & Hansen, I. (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 Verlag. [DOI] [Repository]
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 [Repository]
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 [Repository]
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 [Repository]
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). The University 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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). Terrestrial. In R. Braidotti, & M. Hlavajova (Eds.), Posthuman Glossary Bloomsbury Academic.
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 Academic.
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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/ [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Thiele, K. (2016). Quantum Physics and/as Philosophy: Immanence, Diffraction, and the Ethics of Mattering. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 30. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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., & Thiele, K. C. (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 [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Thiele, K. (2014). Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics. Parallax, 20(3), 202-216. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Diffraction: Onto-epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 20(3), 165-167. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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.