Bryan Norton

Articles

“Mineral Media.” Invited contribution to LA+ Special Issue on “Media.” LA+: International Journal of Landscape Architecture 23 (2026): in progress.

“The Arche-Fossil Between Preservation and Decay: Anthropocene Time in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Die Serapionsbrüder and ‘Haimatochare.’” Special Issue of Modern Language Notes 140:1 (2025): in progress.

“Scaling Catastrophe: The Dual Metabolic Rift.” invited contribution to Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 52:1 (2025) (in progress)

“Negentropic Spectators of the Quantum Secret: Notes for a Planetary Pharmacology.” Negentropy and the Future of the Digital. Ed. Mark Hansen and Bryan Norton. Edinburgh University Press (under review).

(with Mark Hansen). “Introduction.” Negentropic Orientations: Bernard Stiegler and the Future of the Digital. Ed. Mark Hansen and Bryan Norton. Edinburgh University Press (under review).

“The Invisual Imagination: Extinction as Limit Concept” Images, Reality, and Digital Culture: Towards a Post-pictorial Condition. Ed. Krešimir Purgar. London: Routledge, 2025 (forthcoming).

“Simondon and Novalis: Notes for a Romantic Mechanology.” SubStance 53:1 (2024): 85 – 100. https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1353/sub.2024.a924144.

(with Asia Bazdyrieva and Jussi Parikka). “Earth as image and operation: Asia Bazdyrieva, Bryan Norton, and Jussi Parikka in conversation.” Journal of Visual Culture 22:2 (2023) : 202 – 2021, https://doi.org/10.1177/14704129231218185.

“The Extinction Image.” Cultural Politics 19:3 (2023) : 333–352, https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-10819437.

“Veloziferisch (Veloziferian).” Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts 1 (2021): 113-120, https://doi.org/10.5195/glpc.2021.25.

“Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin.“ Symphilosophie 2 (2020): 115-129, https://symphilosophie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4_Symphilosophie-2_4-Norton.pdf.

Public Writings

“Orientation and Organology: The Thought of Bernard Stiegler.” Aeon, April 1, 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world.

“Dialectics of the Anthropocene: Hegel for the Last Generation.” Philosophical Salon. June 12, 2023. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/dialectics-of-the-anthropocene-hegel-for-the-last-generation/

“Jussi Parikka’s Operational Images.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2023. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/10/art_books/Jussi-Parikkas-Operational-Images

“Technology after Hegemony: On Yuk Hui’s Art and Cosmotechnics.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 1, 2022. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/technology-after-hegemony-on-yuk-huis-art-and-cosmotechnics/

“Melville and the Media: A Conversation with Bernhard Siegert, Markus Krajewski, and Harun Maye.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 1, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/melville-and-the-media-a-conversation-with-bernhard-siegert-markus-krajewski-and-harun-maye/

Catalogue Essays

“The Anthropocene at the Fair.” The World on View: Objects from Universal Expositions, 1851-1915. ed: Andre Dombrowski. Head Curator: Heather Gibson Moqtaderi. Arthur Ross Gallery, 2018.

Reviews

Invited review of Franziska Aigner. Kant and Technics: From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Opus Postumum. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 in Critical Inquiry (2025): forthcoming.

Review of Robert E. Mottram and Christopher R. Clason (eds.). Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought: The Inexhaustible Gathering. Liverpool University Press, 2022 in The German Quarterly 97:2 (2024): 288 – 290. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12428.

Review of Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt (eds.). Critique and the Digital. Diaphanes, 2021 in Theory, Culture and Society, 2021, https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/hoerl-pinkrah-warnsholdt-critique-and-the-digital.

Review of Amanda Jo Godstein. Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life. University of Chicago Press, 2017 in Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021): 385-386, https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0035.