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Scale: New Critical Essays
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Marietta Kesting
The concept of scale has become ubiquitous in the humanities, and yet it remains ambivalent, with frequently contradictory effects. While scale refers to scientifically defined measures, it is a shifting, relational term and requires a fluid mode of inquiry and manifold analytical approaches such as reduction and expansion, zooming and focusing, dislocation and recontextualization. The contributions to
Scale: New Critical Essays
come out of sustained conversations across multiple fields โ including artificial intelligence, anthropology, philosophy, literary studies, art, and queer theory โ and establish a network of relations crossing the local and cosmic, individual and social, human and non-human, and modern and pre-modern.
2026 | Cultural Inquiry, 40. scalability; scalarity; planetary scale; expansion; reduction; scale invariance; Anthropocene; postcolonialism; situated knowledge; politics of scale; diminutive; marginal