Current position(s)

Associate Professor of German Studies

Current project(s)

"Out of All Scale: Indexicality and the Magnitude of the Present"
The project hypothesizes that a sense of presence is effectuated by indexical signs--and thus is not a matter of perception by the five senses. An index can link us to presences of supra-sensual scale, for example, to communism or the free-market economy, things that otherwise exceed the boundaries of a normal perception.

Former position(s)

Ohio State University
Northern Illinois University
Stanford University

Monographs (and dissertation)

The Skin of the System: On Germany’s Socialist Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 368 pages.

Articles

Edited volumes

Sozialismus; Philosophie und Sozialtheorie; Semiotik (Fragen der Evidenz und Indexikalität);