Diffractive Reading

1. Introduction - Kai Merten (Erfurt, Germany)

PART I: Diffractive Reading: Groundwork

2. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading - Birgit M. Kaiser

3. Heraclitus’s speculative onto-story: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter - Max Walther

4. Decoherent Reading: On the Constitutive Exclusions of Diffractive Reading - Stacey Moran

5. Reading speculative horror readings diffractively - Peter Schuck

PART II: Diffracting Literature: Diffractions of the World-Text-Reader Entanglement

6. Poem, Epic, and Epoch: A Diffractive Reading of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Georg Lukács’s Theory of the Novel in the Age of New Materialism - Brendan Johnston

7. Sauron’s Sliding Door: The Diffraction of Mythological and Intimate ‘Evil’ in Tolkien - Bo Kampmann Walther

8. Sensing I and Eyes in Ali Smith’s How to Be Both - Daniela Keller

9. Practices of Entanglement: UnReading the Genre in China Miéville’sThe Scar - Agnieszka Kotwasińska

10. The Entanglements of Harry Burden: A Diffractive Reading of Siri Hustvedt - Matthias Stephan

11. Surfacing: A diffractive reading experiment with books and houses in Walter Benjamin’s Ich packe meine Bibliothek aus and Carlos María Domínguez’ Casa de papel - Annina Klappert

PART III: Diffracting (in) Music, Visual and Digital Media

12. Diffractive Aesthetics & Holographic Literacies: Transcoding the Gigaton Volume Detector [A Diffracted Photo-Essay] - Jol Thoms

13. Diffracting Maternal and Female Midlife Sexual Assemblages in Postfeminist Popular Culture - Susan Yi Sencindiver

14. Ontoflecting Through U2 - Nathan D. Frank

15. Reprogramming Rhetoric: Toward a Diffractive Epistemology of Computer Composition - Sean McCullough