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Leif Weatherby

Associate Professor of German, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education

Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Research/Interest

Romanticism and Idealism; digital theory; political economy

Fellowships/Honors

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers; National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend; Fulbright Research Grant, Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; DAAD Re-Invitation Grant

Books

Selected Articles

  • "Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and AI,"
    New German Critique, no. 145 (2022).
  • "Indexical Al"
    co-author Brian Justie, in Critical Inquiry 49 Winter 2021/22, 382-415
  • "Irony and Redundancy: The Alt Right, Media Manipulation, and German Idealism"
    b2o (boundary 2 online), in “The New Extremism,” edited by Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia
  • "Digital Metaphysics: The Cybernetic Idealism of Warren McCulloch"
    The Hedgehog Review (Spring 20.1, 2018)
  • "Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism"
    Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
  • "Medientheorie"
    in Frauke Berndt, Eckart Goebel (eds.): Literatur und Psychoanalyse, Berlin, Boston 2017 (Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie (HKP), eds. Claudia Benthien, Ethel Matala de Mazza, Uwe Wirth)
  • "A Reconsideration of the Romantic Fragment"
    Writing Polarity: German Romanticism and Science, special theme issue of Germanic Review 92 (4), 2017, 407-25
  • "The Cybernetic Humanities"
    Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017
    click to read
  • "On the Conservation of Cultural Force: Naturphilosophie, Romantic Nationalism, and Prose Narrative in Joseph Görres and Adalbert von Chamisso"
    Germanic Review 92 (2), 2017, 189-200
  • "Police Psychology: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Technological Narrative"
    Romantic Circles: Praxis, "New Work on German Romanticism," 2016
    click to read
  • "The Risk of Theory: Romanticism, Science, Media"
    invited contribution to "Forum: Romanticism" in German Quarterly 89 (3), 2016, 352-55
  • "The Romantic Circumstance: Novalis between Kittler and Luhmann"
    SubStance 43, 2014, 46-66