{"id":549,"date":"2018-03-08T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/kuwi-aesthetik\/word\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:07:35","slug":"waldemar-isak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aesthetik.hu-berlin.de\/en\/waldemar-isak\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldemar Isak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Research Assistant<\/p>\n

Georgenstr. 47
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waldemar.isak@hu-berlin.de<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Waldemar Isak studied Cultural History and Theory and Media Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh. Since October 2022 he has been working as a research assistant at the research and teaching area \u00bbCultural Theory and Cultural History and Theory of Aesthetics\u00ab. In the winter semester 2023\/24, Waldemar Isak received a fellowship from the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research and teaching focuses on theories of the body, autotheoretical and essayistic writing, queer aesthetics, as well as gestural and ephemeral aesthetics and practices.<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With Marie Aline Klinger: \u00bbApproaching Leakiness: In Conversation with the Artist Felix Deiters\u00ab, in: Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis<\/em>, Issue 7: Between Bodies and Homes (upcoming 2026).<\/p>\n

Gegenkr\u00e4fte \u2013 Gegenk\u00fcnste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen \u00c4sthetik<\/em>. Ed. with Iris D\u00e4rmann, Sofie Fingado & Andreas Gehrlach. Berlin: Kadmos (upcoming 2026).<\/p>\n

With Sofie Fingado: \u00bbNicht-Wollen und die Zwischenr\u00e4ume der Ausrede\u00ab, in: Iris D\u00e4rmann \/ Sofie Fingado \/ Andreas Gehrlach \/ Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Gegenkr\u00e4fte \u2013 Gegenk\u00fcnste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen \u00c4sthetik. <\/em>Berlin: Kadmos (upcoming 2026).<\/p>\n

Mikroformen des Organischen. K\u00f6rper\/Teile in Literatur, Kunst und Film der Gegenwart<\/em>. Ed. with Charlotte Bolwin & Vanessa Franke. W\u00fcrzburg: K\u00f6nigshausen & Neumann 2025.<\/p>\n

\u00bbHaut, die nicht am K\u00f6rper aufh\u00f6rt. Interkorporale Schreibweisen und kritische Ph\u00e4nomenologien in Anne Boyers The Undying\u00ab, in: Charlotte Bolwin \/ Vanessa Franke \/ Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Mikroformen des Organischen. K\u00f6rper\/Teile in Literatur, Kunst und Film der Gegenwart<\/em>. W\u00fcrzburg: K\u00f6nigshausen & Neumann 2025, pp. 73\u201396.<\/p>\n

With Charlotte Bolwin und Vanessa Franke: \u00bbEinleitung. Organische Mikroformen zwischen Wissen und Wahrnehmung\u00ab, in: Charlotte Bolwin \/ Vanessa Franke \/ Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Mikroformen des Organischen. K\u00f6rper\/Teile in Literatur, Kunst und Film der Gegenwart. <\/em>W\u00fcrzburg: K\u00f6nigshausen & Neumann 2025, pp. 9\u201330.<\/p>\n

\u00bbInfusion und Schreiben. Notizen zu Herv\u00e9 Guiberts Zytomegalievirus. Krankenhaustagebuch<\/em>\u00ab, in: Beate Absalon \/ Nina Franz \/ Andreas Gehrlach \/ Sebastian K\u00f6the \/ Antonio Lucci \/ Stephan Zandt (Eds.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe<\/em>. Berlin: De Gruyter 2023, S. 73\u201377.<\/p>\n

Selbstbeh\u00e4ltnisse. Orte und Gegenst\u00e4nde der Aufbewahrung von Subjektivit\u00e4t<\/em>. Ed. with Laura Busse & Andreas Gehrlach. Berlin: Neofelis 2021.<\/p>\n

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Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00bbGilles Deleuze\u2019 Fingern\u00e4gel\u00ab, Konferenz There\u2019s a rumor going round \u2026<\/em>, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz\u00a0(ifk), 05.06.2025<\/p>\n

\u00bbLeaky Bodies. Theorien und K\u00fcnste des Durchl\u00e4ssigen und Fluiden\u00ab<\/em>, with Marie Aline Klinger, lecture series\u00a0Berliner Kulturwissenschaft<\/em>, Humboldt University of Berlin, 17.12.2024<\/p>\n

\u00bbDer Muskel als Form. Erkundungen in Kunst, Essayistik und Queerer Theorie\u00ab<\/em>, Conference K\u00f6rper-Teile: Mikroformen des Organischen in Literatur, Kunst und Film<\/em>, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 01.10.2023<\/p>\n

\u00bbAutotheory: Zambreno, Preciado, Acker u. a.\u00ab<\/em>, lecture series Autorschaft<\/em>, org. by Andreas Gehrlach, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, 11.07.2023<\/p>\n

\u00bb\u203aA reminder of our un-oneness\u2039: Anne Boyer\u2019s The Undying<\/em> and the skin of autofiction\u00ab<\/em>, <\/em>Conference Cultures of Skin: Skin in Literature and Culture, Past, Present, Future<\/em>, University of Surrey, UK, 07.07.2023<\/p>\n

\u00bb\u203aPolitische Dermatologie\u2039. Aisthetische Konturen bei Paul B. Preciado und Anne Boyer\u00ab<\/em>, lecture series Kulturwissenschaftliche \u00c4sthetik<\/em>, Humboldt University of Berlin, 11.05.2023<\/p>\n

\u00bbDie eigene Unordnung des Bettes. Ted Spagnas Fotoserie Sleep\u00ab<\/em>, Symposium Selbstbeh\u00e4ltnisse. Orte und Gegenst\u00e4nde der Aufbewahrung von Individualit\u00e4t<\/em>, Humboldt University of Berlin, 15.11.2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Foto \u00a9 Frank Krems 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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