College: Trinity Hall听
Email: lvlk2@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof听Martin Crowley
Research Topic: Michel Serres鈥檚 Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Social Theory
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About
Lilian is currently working on a PhD project on Michel Serres at the French Department, and she is also associated to the research group 鈥淐ritical thinking in the plural鈥� the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. Prior to that, she studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna (BA, MA) and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and worked as a research assistant at the Philosophy Department in Vienna. Lilian has听contributed to various theatre projects and group exhibitions, and has participated in an artist in residency program in Tamil Nadu, India, in 2018. Her research is interested in philosophy of nature and law, the history and philosophy of science, critical theory and aesthetics.
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Research
Lilian's doctoral research focuses on the philosophy of limits in the work of Michel Serres. It asks question such as: how does Serres conceptualise limits, what are the main resources for that, what do they 鈥檛ranslate鈥� between, and how is this to be contextualised in French theory, critical theory and the philosophy of science? By looking at how Serres moves especially with limits oriented by his understanding of entropy and topology, her doctoral project investigates translations between philosophy of science and social theory, especially in the light of the philosophy of climate change and conceptions of a 鈥檔atural contractuality鈥�.
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Teaching
Critical Theory (Foucault, Tsing, Mbembe, Deleuze, Spivak, Boltanski/ Chiapello, De Castro, Woolf, de Beauvoir)
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Publications
鈥淚nfrastructure, Translation and Metaphor. A Reflection on Infrastructure鈥檚 Epistemic Framework and Metaphorical Displacements with Michel Serres and Bruno Latour鈥� (in Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique, edited by Sabeth Buchmann and Ilse Lafer, Sternberg Press, forthcoming October 2022)
Drawing From and With the Oceanic: Tania Kovats at Parafin, London, third text. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 25. January 2022. http://www.thirdtext.org/kroth-kovats-review
鈥淭he Topology of Difference: Deleuze鈥檚 Nietzsche in his Politics of Folded Spaces and Subjects鈥� (in: Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, De Gruyter, forthcoming 2022)
鈥淭he Ocean in the Court 鈥� Relating the Limits of Natural and Social Laws in Michel Serres鈥� (forthcoming, 2022)
鈥淐ritique emerging from Marshes and Mushrooms. Parasitism and Desterilisation in Serres and Tsing鈥�, in: Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 7 (2020): Parassitismi.
听鈥淩eale Au脽en? Konfrontationen zwischen French Theory und postkolonialer Kritik im Spiegel einer dividuellen Teilhabe am Weltwerden鈥� (Polylog Nr. 42 2019, book review)
鈥淎rt under the Lens of Political Theory: Oliver Marchart and the Aesthetics of Explicitly Political Art鈥� (, book review)
鈥淲ie viel Geheimnis muss sein? Geheimnis, Nichtwissen und ihre gesellschaftlichen Funktionen bei Georg Simmel鈥� (鈥淗ow Much Secret Does It Have to Be? Secret, Non-Knowledge, and Its Social Functions according to Simmel鈥�) in: (Deutungs-)Macht des 脰ffentlichen. Conference Transcript, Vienna: danzig&unfried. (forthcoming, 2022)
鈥淒en gegenw盲rtigen Moment nicht verpassen鈥� (鈥淣ot to Miss the Present Moment鈥�) 鈥� Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy, in: Engell/ Siegert (Hrsg.) Zeitschrift f眉r Medien-und Kulturforschung. SCHWERPUNKT Inkarnieren (Heft 8/1 2017), Hamburg: Meiner Verlag.
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Projects
鈥淭ranslating Entropy鈥� AHRC OOC DTP funded workshop (organised by Lilian Kroth and David Harrison, February 2022)
CRASSH research network 鈥淩emote Sensing. Ice, Instruments, Imagination鈥� (organised by Lilian Kroth and Amelia Urry, co-organisers: Charlotte Connelly, Scott Polar Museum, and Dehlia Hannah, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), starting in October 2022
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Presentations
鈥淩elations between Inter-action and Intra-action. Serres and Feminist Philosophy of Science鈥� at Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities (November 9-12 2022, TU Dresden)
鈥淪erres鈥� strukturelle Vertragskritiken鈥� (13th July 2022, Bonn, Kolloquium Andreas Gelhard)
鈥淪erres鈥檚 Natural - Legal Limits and Alignments 鈥� Approaching the Contractual Dimension of Entropic Limits鈥� at Serres and the Social (June 21-22 2022, Queen鈥檚 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录)
鈥淢ichel Serres and Critique鈥� 听(June 8th 2022, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
鈥淚nfrastructure, Translation and Metaphor. A Reflection on Infrastructure鈥檚 Epistemic Framework and Metaphorical Displacements with Michel Serres and Bruno Latour鈥� at Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique (conference, May 20-21 2022, Vienna)
鈥淭hinking 鈥楲imits鈥� and its 鈥楾ranslations鈥� with Michel Serres 鈥� A Critical Perspective on Limitarisms in Political Ecology鈥� at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S, October 2021, Toronto) 听听
鈥淢ichel Serres and 鈥檒e propre鈥欌�� at Why Private Property? 鈥� Conference ( Bordeaux, June 2021)听
鈥淒rawing Theory鈥� at Tactics and Practice Research Seminar (澳门六合彩开奖记录, March and May 2021)
Response to Marta Segarra鈥檚 鈥淧oststructuralism and Posthumanities鈥� at Was wird der Poststrukturalismus gewesen sein? (University of Vienna, January 2021)
鈥淭he Ocean in the Court 鈥� Relating the Limits of Natural and Social Law鈥� at SEP-FEP (Society for European Philosophy, November 2020)
鈥淲hat Makes Art Political? Raging Against the De-and Over-Politicisation of Artistic Practices鈥� at French Graduate Conference: 鈥楻age Against the Machine鈥� (澳门六合彩开奖记录, October 2020)
鈥淒eleuze and the Other(s) 鈥� Deleuze鈥檚 Logic of Implication and Explication鈥� at Deleuze Studies Conference (July 2019, London, Royal Holloway)
鈥淢emory and future as folding 鈥� a topological approach between Deleuze and Foucault鈥� at Memories of the Future International Conference (Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study, University of London, March 2019)
鈥淭opology of Difference with Nietzsche and Deleuze鈥� at Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, Friedrich Nietzsche Society Conference (Newcastle University, UK, September, 2018)听
鈥淜rise der Authentizit盲t 鈥� zwischen Kapitalismuskritik und 脰konomisierung. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Boltanski/Chiapello und Bernard Stiegler鈥� at Kritiken der Krise (June, 2018, Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt, Germany)
