Bryan N. Norton Pigott Hall, Building 260, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way Stanford, CA 94305 brnorton@stanford.edu Academic Positions Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, September 2022 – Present. Lecturer, Department of German Studies, Stanford University, 2022 – Present. Visiting Researcher, Modell Romantik, University of Jena, June – July 2023. Visiting Researcher, ArTec, Paris VIII, June – July 2022. Education PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2022. Title: Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism Dissertation Chair: Catriona Macleod (University of Chicago). Committee Members: Adelheid Voskuhl, Warren Breckman, Leif Weatherby (New York University), and Gabriel Trop (UNC, Chapel Hill). Visiting Scholar, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University Berlin, 2020 – 2022. Fulbright Doctoral Fellow, Institute for German Literature, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2019 – 2020. MA in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2018. DAAD Research Fellow, Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Cologne, 2015 – 2016. BA in Philosophy and English (summa cum laude), California State University Fullerton, 2014. Honors and Awards Penfield Research Fellowship (Declined – University of Pennsylvania), 2022. Jusserand German Studies Research Grant (University of Pennsylvania), 2021. Dissertation Research Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), 2020. Arthur M. Daemmrich and Guenther Memorial Prize for Excellence in German Studies (University of Pennsylvania), 2020. Berliner Luftbrückenstipendium (Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft), 2019. Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.), 2019 – 2020. DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship (Declined – Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.), 2019 – 2020. DAAD Conference Grant for “Kittler and the Human(ities): Rethinking the Human, the Humanities and the Legacy of German Media Theory,” 2019. School of Arts & Sciences Conference Grant (University of Pennsylvania) for “Kittler and the Human(itites)” Conference, 2019. MWW Internationale Sommerschule Travel Grant. German Literature Archives, Marbach, 2018. DAAD Travel Grant (Strategic Partnership, University of Pennsylvania/Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.), 2018. Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), 2016-2022. DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship (University of Cologne), 2015-2016. Monographs There Was No Planet A: Art, Technology, and Extinction (in progress). Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature After Kant (in progress). Edited Volumes Negentropy and the Future of the Digital. Co-edited with Mark Hansen. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press, 2024 (under review). Edited Journal Issues “Planetary Thinking in the Age of Goethe.” Special Issue of Modern Language Notes, co-edited with Daniel Carranza (in progress). Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “’Der Nordost Wehet:’ Colonial Disorientation in Friedrich Hölderlin’s ‘Remembrance’” Modern Language Notes special issue on “Planetary Thinking in the Age of Goethe” (in progress). “Simondon and Novalis: Notes for a Romantic Mechanology.” SubStance (under review). “The Extinction Image.” Cultural Politics 19:3 (2023) (forthcoming). “Earth as Image and Operation: A Conversation with Asia Bazdyrieva and Jussi Parikka.” Journal of Visual Culture. 22:1 (2023) (forthcoming). “Veloziferisch (Veloziferian).” Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts 1 (2021): 113-120, https://doi.org/10.5195/glpc.2021.25. “Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin.“ Symphilosophie 2 (2020): 115-129, https://symphilosophie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4_Symphilosophie-2_4-Norton.pdf. Essays in Edited Volumes “Negentropic Spectators of the Quantum Secret: Towards a Planetary Pharmacology.” Negentropy and the Future of the Digital. Ed. Mark Hansen and Bryan Norton, forthcoming 2024. Book Reviews Review of Robert Mottram and Christopher Clason, eds., Assembly and Its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought: The Inexhaustible Gathering. Liverpool University Press, 2022 in The German Quarterly 97:2 (2024) (forthcoming). Review of Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt, eds., Critique and the Digital. Diaphanes, 2021 in Theory, Culture and Society, 2021, https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/hoerl-pinkrah-warnsholdt-critique-and-the-digital. Review of Amanda Jo Godstein. Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life. University of Chicago Press, 2017 in Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021): 385-386, https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0035. Catalogue Essays “The Anthropocene at the Fair.” The World on View: Objects from Universal Expositions, 1851-1915. ed: Andre Dombrowski. Head Curator: Heather Gibson Moqtaderi. Arthur Ross Gallery, 2018. Other Writings “Orientation and Organology: The Thought of Bernard Stiegler.” Aeon, forthcoming 2023 (under contract). “Jussi Parikka’s Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual.” Brooklyn Rail, forthcoming 2023 (under contract). “Dialectics of the Anthropocene: Hegel for the Last Generation.” Philosophical Salon, June 12, 2023. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/dialectics-of-the-anthropocene-hegel-for-the-last-generation/. “Technology after Hegemony: On Yuk Hui’s Art and Cosmotechnics.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 1, 2022. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/technology-after-hegemony-on-yuk-huis-art-and-cosmotechnics/. “Melville and the Media: A Conversation with Bernhard Siegert, Markus Krajewski, and Harun Maye.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 1, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/melville-and-the-media-a-conversation-with-bernhard-siegert-markus-krajewski-and-harun-maye/. Curated Exhibitions “From Discourse Networks to Cultural Techniques.” Van Pelt Library, in collaboration with the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. University of Pennsylvania. April 2019. “The Anthropocene at the Fair” section curator for The World on View: Objects from Universal Expositions, 1851-1915. Arthur Ross Gallery. Philadelphia, PA. Opened in April 2018. Invited Talks “Title.” Stanford Humanities Center, 2023. “Hölderlins Poetik der Resonanz.” Guest Lecture for “Modell Romantik” Graduiertenkolleg. Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 2023. “German Studies in Our Planetary Present.” Stanford Humanities Center, 2023. “Fragments of the Concrete: Technical Media and Political Ecology in German Romanticism.” Stanford Humanities Center, 2023. “There Was No Planet A.” Art History Graduate Roundtable. Stanford University, 2022. “World Souls, Perpetual Motion, Negentropy: the ‘Technik der Natur’ after Kant.” Department of German Studies. Stanford University, 2022. “Schiff als Metonymie und Cosmogram.” Institut für deutsche Literatur. Humboldt Universität Berlin, 2021. “Dorothea Schlegels Florentin. Eine Kritik der männlichen Urteilskraft.“ Institut für deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik. Goethe Universität, 2020. “Utopie und Technik. Die mechanische Romantik bei Novalis.“ Institut für deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik. Goethe Universität, 2019. “Kittler and Media Theory” (with Margaret Strair). Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. University of Pennsylvania, 2019. “(Re-)engineering the transcendental aesthetic.” Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 2018. “The Perpetuum Mobile Between Science and Literature: Opening a Black Box with Novalis and Scheerbart.” Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. University of Pennsylvania, 2017. “Novalis. Bewegung und Ruhe.“ Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I. Universität zu Köln, 2017. Conference Papers “The Work of Aufbewahrung in Hegel’s Aesthetics.” Society for German Idealism and Romanticism. University of Cambridge, 2024. “The Making of Digital Earths: Towards a Theory of Terraformatting.” Literature, Science, and the Arts. Panel: “Embodiment and Environment: Politics for Postcinema.” Tempe, Arizona, 2023. “Hegel for the Last Generation.” American Comparative Literature Association. Panel: “Cosmopolitics and Cosmopoetics.” Chicago, Illinois, 2023. “Goethe and the Technics of Antizipation.” Modern Language Association. Panel: “From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Time and Timelines in the Works of Schiller and Goethe.” San Francisco, California, 2023. “Was ist romantische Mecanologie? Gilbert Simondon zu E.T.A. Hoffmann.” Meeting of DFG Research Network Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung. University of Bonn, 2022. “’Zerbrochen ist das Steuer:’ the Goethean modulation of form.” Goethe Atkins Conference. University of Chicago, 2021. “Resonanz und der nomos der Romantik.” Workshop of the DFG Research Network Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung. Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M., 2021. “‘Alles veloziferisch‘: Speed and ‘Steuerung‘ in Goethe.” Workshop of the Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts. Cambridge University, 2020. “Technē between nature and knowing: Heideggerian reflections in Schelling’s Absolute.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Panel: “Languages of Idealism.” University of Chicago/University of Illinois, Chicago, 2019. “On Thermodynamic Aesthetics: the Perpetuum Mobile in Novalis and Scheerbart.” German Studies Association. Panel: “Incipient Scheerbart.” University of Pittsburgh, 2018. “Novalis’s Perpetuum Mobile: Towards a Thermodynamic Naturphilosophie.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Brown University, 2018. Seminars and Conference Panels Organized “Embodiment and Environment: Politics for Postcinema.” Panel Organizer. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tempe, Arizona, 2023. “Planetary Thinking in the Age of Goethe.” Co-organizer of Goethe Society of North America sponsored Panel for German Studies Association. Montreal, Canada, 2023. “Cosmopolitics and Cosmopoetics.” Seminar co-organizer. American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, Illinois, 2023. “Cultural Techniques.” Seminar co-organizer. German Studies Association. Portland, Oregon, 2019. Teaching “German Theory and Philosophy After 1945.” Co-taught with Adrian Daub. Spring 2023. “Marx and Marxism.” Independent Study. Fall 2023. “Green Germany.” German Studies. Fall 2023. “Marx: Politics and Culture.” German Studies. Stanford University. Spring 2023. “Media Theory and the Sea.” German Studies and Media Studies. Stanford University. Winter 2023. “German for Reading Knowledge.” Course Instructor, Summer 2019. “Beginning German Language and Culture.” Germanic Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellow. University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019. “Nineteenth Century Intellectual History.” Teaching Assistant for Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2018. “Berlin: History, Politics, Culture.” Teaching Assistant for Liliane Weissberg, Fall 2017. Guest Lectures “What is Romanticism? Poetry, Politics, and the Nature of Freedom.” Guest Lecture for “Structured Liberal Education.” Stanford University, 2023. “Politics and aesthetics of the invisual.” Guest Lecture for Shane Denson’s “Media and Environment.” Stanford University, 2023. “Entropy in the Factory.” Guest Lecture for Katia Schwerzmann’s “Marx and the Machine.” Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2021. “Romanticism in Europe.” Guest Lecture for Warren Breckman’s “European Intellectual History, 1780-1870.” University of Pennsylvania, 2018. “The Berlin Cabaret.” Guest Lecture for Liliane Weissberg’s “Berlin: History, Politics, Culture.” University of Pennsylvania, 2017. Academic Service Application Reader for Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, 2024-2025 cycle. Stanford Humanities Center, 2023. Convenor of “Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” Reading Group. Stanford Humanities Center, 2023. Application Reader for Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, 2023-2024 cycle. Stanford Humanities Center, 2022. Co-organizer of “Kittler and the Human(ities): German Media Theory Today.” Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Annual Conference. University of Pennsylvania. Spring, 2019. Convener of “Immanuel Kant” Graduate Workshop for M.A. Exam Preparation Colloquium, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2019. Co-organizer of “Media and Hermeneutics” Reading Group. University of Pennsylvania, 2018 - 2019. Organizer of “Theorizing” Lecture Series. University of Pennsylvania, 2017-2018. Professional Affiliations Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; Society for Cinema and Media Studies; American Comparative Literature Association; Modern Language Association; German Studies Association; Goethe Society of North America; Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Languages English – Native Speaker German – Near-Native Command French – Advanced Knowledge Spanish – Advanced Knowledge Latin – Reading Knowledge 7