Carl Gelderloos

Bio

Carl Gelderloos is an Associate Professor of German Studies at Binghamton University. His book, Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture (Northwestern UP), received the 2020 Honorable Mention for the DAAD/GSA Book Prize for Best Book in Germanistik and Cultural Studies. His writing on German modernism, science fiction, photography, and other topics has appeared in German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Monatshefte, and Germanic Review, among other venues.

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Contributions

“Nowhere an obstacle”: Transparency, Embodied Perception, and Becoming in Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio

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Introduction How might we situate Paul Scheerbart within German modernism? The work of excavating his oeuvre, its conceptual and generic contours, and its entanglements with other figures and constellations of German modernism has begun in earnest, yet he is still known primarily as a theorist of glass architecture, on the one hand, and as a decades-long, subterranean influence on Walter Benjamin, on the other—Benjamin received a copy of Scheerbart’s 1913 novel Lesabéndio from Gershom Scholem as...

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