Stijn De Cauwer
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. S.W.M. De Cauwer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1990
- s.w.m.de.cauwer@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2914-7220
Stijd de Cauwer is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Stijn De Cauwer
Research
In my research I have explored the connection between various forms of cultural expression (literature, film, photography, art, protest movements) and societal challenges (inequality, environmental challenges, biopolitics…). I have published scholarly work on cultural and theoretical responses to situations of crisis, on the use of images to understand dynamics of oppression and resistance (especially in the work of Georges Didi-Huberman), on the continuing relevance of theories of biopolitics (such as in Italian political theory) and on literary responses to changes in society in the early 20th century (with a focus on the work of Robert Musil and Alfred Döblin).
Teaching
I teach courses on cultural studies, theory of film, visual studies and literary theory. At Leiden University, I specifically teach courses on contemporary theories of film, adaptations, culture and contemporary societal challenges, critical reflections on digital media and introductory courses in cultural theory and literary theory.
Curriculum Vitae
Stijn De Cauwer is Assistant Professor (UD) at the Film and Literary Studies Department of Leiden University (LUCAS, Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society).
He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University (A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian Project, 2012). From 2012 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in cultural studies and literary studies at KU Leuven, with funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and from 2018 to 2022, he was postdoctoral assistant in cultural studies at KU Leuven. In 2014, he was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Stijn’s main fields of expertise are visual studies, cultural studies, film and photography theory, cultural theory, critical theory and literary studies. He is the editor of Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis (Columbia UP, 2018), co-editor of Critical Image Operations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman (Routledge, 2019), co-editor of 50 Key Terms in Contemporary Cultural Theory (Pelckmans, 2017) and the author of A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian Project (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014). He has also co-edited special issues of the journals Angelaki, Configurations and Orbis Litterarum.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2024), The afterlife of uprisings in the work of Georges Didi-Huberman and João Moreira Salles’ No Intenso Agora, Culture, Theory and Critique : .
- (7 September 2024), Rüdiger Safranski: Kafka: schrijven voor zijn leven. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- De Cauwer S. (2023) Het verhaal van een waangedachte. Review of: Philipp Blom, De onderwerping.. De Reactor .
- Christiaens T. & Cauwer S.W.M. de (2023), Woke incidenten? Niet elke kritiek is een aanval op de academische vrijheid, Knack : .
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2022), Uprising. In: Zolkos M. (Ed.), The Didi-Huberman dictionary. Philosophical Dictionaries: Edinburgh University Press. 214-216.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2022), Giorgio Agamben. In: Zolkos M. (Ed.), The Didi-Huberman Dictionary. Philosophical Dictionaries: Edinburgh University Press. 9-11.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2022), Jacques Rancière. In: Zolkos M. (Ed.), The Didi-Huberman dictionary. Philosophical Dictionaries: Edinburgh University Press. 185-188.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2022), Jean-Luc Godard. In: Zolkos M. (Ed.), The Didi-Huberman dictionary. Philosophical Dictionaries: Edinburgh University Press. 101-102.
- De Cauwer S. (2022) Een cartografie van vuurhaarden en allianties. Review of: Baptiste Morizot, Het levende laten opvlammen.. De Reactor. .
- De Cauwer S. (2022), Review of: Chari Larsson, Didi-Huberman and the Image.. Caa.reviews .
- De Cauwer S., Georges Didi-Huberman: Het voortleven van de vuurvliegjes. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2021), Ariella Aisha Azoulay and Georges Didi-Huberman: the persistence of lost worlds, Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 13(1): .
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2021), Potentiality and uprisings: Georges Didi-Huberman in dialogue with Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, Italian Studies 76(2): 186-199.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2021), Coda: Narrating precarity in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Philipsen B. & Rys M. (Eds.), Literary representations of precarious work, 1840 to the present: Palgrave. 305-318.
- De Cauwer S. (2021), Review of: Theodor W. Adorno, Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 83(2): 362-364.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Smith L.K. (Eds.) (2020), Critical image operations: the work of Georges Didi-Huberman. London: Routledge.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2020), The Afterlife of 1968: João Moreira Salles's No Intenso Agora, Trigger 2020(2): 79-82.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. & Christiaens T. (2020), The multitude divided : biopolitical production during the coronavirus pandemic. In: Lyon-Callo V., Madra Y., Özselçuk C., Randall J., Safri M., Sato S. & Shear B. (Eds.), Pandemic and the crisis of capitalism: ReMarx books. 118-127.
- De Cauwer S. & Christiaens T., The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito. . Antipode. [blog entry].
- De Cauwer S. & Christiaens T., La biopolítica de la inmunidad en tiempos de COVID-19: una entrevista con Roberto Esposito. . La Cabina Invisible. [blog entry].
- De Cauwer S.W.M. & Fabré S. (2019), Documenting Berlin in the Twenties: War Neurosis and Inflation in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. In: Bergh C. Van den, Bonciarelli S. & Reverseau A. (Eds.), Literature as document: generic boundaries in 1930s Western literature: Brill. 78-102.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2019), The world as seen through a window: interiors and the crisis of morality in the work of Robert Musil. In: Kelly M. & Bauer D. (Eds.), The imagery of interior spaces: Punctum Books. 97-116.
- De Cauwer S. (2019), Review of: Georges Didi-Huberman, Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science .. Critical Inquiry 46(2): 452-453.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2018), Searching for fireflies: pathos and imagination in the theories of Georges Didi-Huberman, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23(4): 133-149.
- De Cauwer S.W.N. (Ed.) (2018), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Smith L. (2018), Editorial introduction: Critical image configurations: the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23(4): 3-10.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Colangelo C. (2018), Jean-Luc Godard voor de massa?, EXTRA : .
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2018), Introduction: resistance in times of crisis. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 11-35.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2018), We need to have a clear alternative: interview with Tariq Ali. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 99-112.
- De Cauwer S.W.M., Meyntjens G.J. & Peeters H. (2018), The creativity dispositive: labor reform by stealth. Interview with Angela McRobbie. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 146-158.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. & Meyntjens G.J. (2018), We should be modest, when it comes to the designation of the possible subjects of a new politics: interview with Jacques Rancière. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 47-60.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. & Meynjens G.J. (2018), The European Union is a cage: interview with Antonio Negri. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 87-98.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. & Christiaens T. (2018), How to think a war machine? : Interview with Maurizio Lazzarato. In: De Cauwer S.W.M. (Ed.), Critical theory at a crossroads: conversations on resistance in times of crisis: Columbia University Press. 134-145.
- Bloois J. de, Cauwer S.W.N. de & Masschelein A. (Eds.) (2017), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans.
- Vleminck J. de & Cauwer S.W.M. de (2017), De actualiteit van het biopolitieke denken: van Michel Foucault naar het Pensiero Vivente van de Italian Theory, De Uil van Minerva 30(1): 2-13.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Rys M. (2017), De zoektocht naar een affirmatieve biopolitiek in het werk van Roberto Esposito, De Uil van Minerva 30(1): 69-88.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2017), Hoe de betovering doorbreken? Lessen uit Seattle, nY: Tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en amusement (32): 49-62.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Hendrickx K. (2017), Introduction: immunity, society, and the arts, Configurations 25(3): 265--277.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Vleminck J. de (Eds.) (2017), De actuele (ir)relevantie van biopolitieke analyses: De Uil Van Minerva.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Reverseau A. (2017), La faim et le froid. In: Martens D. & Bossche B. van den (Eds.), 1947 Almanach littéraire. Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles. 13-18.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Meyntjens G.J. (2017), Bertolt Brecht: un écrivain de gauche au pays des censeurs. In: Martens D. & Bossche B. van den (Eds.), 1947 Almanach littéraire: Les Impressions Nouvelles. 240-246.
- Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (2017), Culture: an introduction. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 7-21.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2017), Crisis. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 97-101.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2017), Immunity. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 151-155.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2017), Biopolitics. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 57-62.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2017), Surveillance. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 286-290.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2017), Utopia. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S.W.M. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory: Pelckmans. 297-301.
- De Cauwer S., Rainer Maria Rilke: August Rodin. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- Beun C. de & Cauwer S.W.M. de (2016), Einführung: "Schriftstellerreden" / "Schriftsteller rede(te)n": Eine herausfordernde Kombination, Orbis Litterarum 71(1): 1-32.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2016), De politiek van het alledaagse in Cruel Optimism van Lauren Berlant, nY: Tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en amusement (28): 27-38.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2016), De noodzaak van het barbaarse in het werk van Alessandro Baricco, Romaneske 46(1): 26-32.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2016), Der Untergang des Abendlandes als Symptom: Robert Musil über Oswald Spengler. In: De Winde A., Philipsen B., Maes S. & Fabré S. (Eds.), Tektonik des Systeme: Neulektüren von Oswald Spengler: Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag. 160-174.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2016), Pathology and the search for a modern ethics in the writings of Robert Musil. In: Symons S. (Ed.), The marriage of ethics and aesthetics. Critical Studies in German Idealism no. 15: Brill. 251-275.
- De Cauwer S. (2016), Review of: Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 78(3): 700-701.
- De Cauwer S. (2016), Review of: Graeme Gilloch, Siegfried Kracauer: Our Companion in Misfortune.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 78(3): 688-689.
- De Cauwer S., Philippe Claudel: De boom in het land van de Toraja. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- De Cauwer S., Robert Walser: Jakob von Gunten. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- De Cauwer S., W.G. Sebald: Over het land en het water. Een keuze uit de gedichten 1964-2001. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2015), Beyond the stimulus shield: war neurosis, shock and montage in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, Neophilologus 99(1): 97-112.
- Cauwer S.W.M .de & Fielding J.M. (2015), Robert Musil's symptomatology: Oswald Spengler and the clinical picture of society, Symposium: a Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 69(2): 73-86.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2015), Tearing down the wall: Franz Kafka and the possibility of a literary immunity, Neophilologus 99(3): 449-464.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2015), Experimenting with time: therapeutic spaces in the German interwar novel, Interiors 6(2): 157-179.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de & Vermeulen P. (2015), Literatuur en biopolitiek, Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap 7: 149-154.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2015), Le meuble d'archive. In: Reverseau A. & Cohen N. (Eds.), Petit musée d'histoire littéraire: Les Impressions Nouvelles. 139-142.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2015), La chaise de repos. In: Reverseau A. & Cohen N. (Eds.), Petit musée d'histoire littéraire: 1900-1950: Les Impressions Nouvelles. 75-78.
- De Cauwer S. (2015), Review of: Giorgio Agamben, The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore and Nymphs.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 77(2): 432-433.
- De Cauwer S. (2015), Review of: Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze (eds.), Biopolitics: a Reader.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 77(2): 430-432.
- De Cauwer S., David Wagner: Leven. Mappalibri. [blog entry].
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2014), Before the absolute: literature, time and the autoimmunity of sovereignty in the work of Hermann Broch, Neophilologus 98(3): 449-464.
- De Cauwer S.W.N. (2014), A diagnosis of modern life: Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian project. Brussels: P.I.E Peter Lang.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2014), The search for a literary immunity in the work of Franz Kafka. In: Sikorska L.,Chudzińska-Parkosadze A., Jarzab J. & Fratczak M. (Eds.), Clash(es) and new beginnings in literature and culture: Wydział Anglistyki UAM. 105-114.
- De Cauwer S. (2014) Het kapitalisme in onszelf. Review of: Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, History & Obstinacy. De Reactor .
- De Cauwer S. (2014), Review of: Roberto Esposito, Living Thought. The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 76(1): 152-153.
- De Cauwer S. (2014), Review of: Roberto Esposito, Terms of the Political. Community, Immunity, Biopolitics. . Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 76(1): 184-185.
- De Cauwer S. (2014), Review of: John Sallis (ed.), Paul Klee. Philosophical Vision. From Nature to Art. . Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 76(2): 408-409.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2013), "A mysterious malady of the times": Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a working through of the symptoms of modern life, Orbis Litterarum 68(4): 291-311.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2013), From normality to normativity: Alberto Moravia and Robert Musil on the pathology of normality, Orbis Litterarum 68(5): 395-410.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2013), Leven in de eindtijd, Karakter: tijdschrift van wetenschap (41): 3-4.
- De Cauwer S. (2013), Review of: Roberto Esposito, Third Person. Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal. . Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 75(2): 400-401.
- De Cauwer S. (2013), Review of: Giorgio Agamben, The Church and the Kingdom.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 75(3): 623-624.
- De Cauwer S. (2013), Review of: Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner, Franz Kafka: The Ghost in the Machine.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 75(2): 405-407.
- De Cauwer S. (2013), Review of: Arne De Boever (ed.), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 75(3): 585-586.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2012), Robert Musil's cultural diagnostics in the light of Nietzschean immunology, Neophilologus 96(3): 411-425.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (28 May 2012), A diagnosis of modern life: Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian Project (Dissertatie, Humanities, Utrecht University). Supervisor(s): Naaijkens A.B.M.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2012), Robert Musil en het grote gat dat men ziel noemt, Armada: tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur (66): 31-35.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2012), Love and squalor at the Antolinis'. In: Dromm K. & Salter H. (Eds.), The catcher in the rye and philosophy: a book for bastards, morons, and madmen: Open Court. 23-36.
- De Cauwer S.W.M. (2012), Critique. In: Zolkos M. (Ed.), The Didi-Huberman dictionary. Philosophical Dictionaries: Edinburgh University Press. 52-55.
- De Cauwer S. (2012), Review of: Robert Freed, Robert Musil and the NonModern.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 74(2): 371-373.
- De Cauwer S. (2012), Review of: Eric Santner, The Royal Remains.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 74(1): 179-180.
- De Cauwer S. (2012), Review of: Roberto Esposito, Immunitas: the Protection and Negation of Life.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 74(2): 396-397.
- De Cauwer S. (2012), Review of: Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept, the Freudian Uncanny in late-twentieth-century Theory.. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 74(3): 599-600.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2011), Waanzin en transformatie in het werk van Musil en Canetti, Streven 78: 148-158.
- De Cauwer S. (2011), Review of: Tony Judt, Memory Chalet. Streven (augustus).
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2010), Ideology critique and utopianism in the work of Robert Musil, Meridian Critic 16(2): 29-40.
- Cauwer S.W.M. de (2010), The critical-utopian project of Robert Musil’s 'The Man without Qualities', Studies in Social and Political Thought : 41-55.