Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities

Iris van der Tuin is professor of theory of cultural inquiry in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and Director of its School of Liberal Arts. Nanna Verhoeff is professor of screen cultures & society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University. Together, Iris and Nanna initiated the Creative Humanities Academy of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University: an infrastructure for collaboration between academic scholars and creative professionals, post-academic teaching, and consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies, and pedagogies. See: https://www.uu.nl/en/education/creative-humanities-academy.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Accent

Accident

Affect

Ambient

Architecture, Architexture

Assembling

Asterisk *

Between No-Longer and Not-Yet

Both/And

Brackets [], Parentheses ()

Care, Ethics of Care

Cartography, Performative Cartography

Classifixation

Collage

Collective Imaginings

Condition

Contagion

Contingency

Crossing

Curation

Dash – , Hyphen -

Deixis

Diffraction

Dirt

Dispositif

Dramaturgy

Eco-, Ecology

Encounter

Engagement

Failure

Figuration

Following

Friction

Generation, Generative

Gesture

Glow

Habit

Hashtag #

Implication

Interface

Irreducibility, Irreduction

Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscopic

Making Kin, Unkinning

Micrology

Mode, Modality, Multi-Modality

Navigation

Openness

Pluriverse

Prefiguration

Procedure

Proposition

Punctuation

Randomization

Rhythm

Risk

Scale, Scaling

Scape, -scapes

Situation, Situatedness

Somatechnics

Speculation

Sticky, Stickiness

Surface

Sympathy

Synchrony, Synchronicity

Theoretical Object, Knowledge Object

Trace, Tracing

Trans-, Transing

Unlearning

Wonder

Zetesis

INDEX of Concepts

INDEX of Names

Bibliography

About the Authors