Research by Dr. Henry Krips

Henry specializes in Contemporary European Cultural Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Science Studies.  His publications include Fetish: An Erotics of Culture (Cornell University Press, 1999), Der Andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse, Kultur, Medien (Turia Kant, Vienna, 2001), Science, Reason and Rhetoric (Pittsburgh University Press, 1995), and The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987). He has held the Silverman visiting chair for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv, and has been a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science inBerlin, the Hungarian Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest, and the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna. He is on the board of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and chairs the division for Theories of Culture in the American Cultural Studies Association.

He is currently writing a book on "The New Politics" which explores the political work of Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Theodore Adorno. Also for the next three Summers he is a senior visiting fellow at the Institute for Quantum Optics in Vienna, exploring the philosophical, cultural, and physical possibilities of quantum teleportation.