This concise, precise, and inclusive dictionary contributes to a growing, transforming, and living research culture within both humanities scholarship and professional practices within the creative sectors. Its format of succinct starting definitions, demonstrations of possible routes of further development, and references to new and revisited concepts as conceptual invitations allows readers to quickly uptake and orient themselves within this exciting methodological field for didactic, scholarly and creative use, and as a starting point for further investigation for future contributions to the new canon of critical concepts.

Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities is the first book to outline and define the specific and evolving field of the creative humanities and provides the fields nascent bibliography.

Iris van der Tuinis professor of theory of cultural inquiry in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and university-wide dean for interdisciplinary education.

Nanna Verhoeff is professor of screen cultures& society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University.

Together, Iris and Nanna initiated the Creative Humanities Academy of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University: an infrastructure for collaboration between academic scholars and creative professionals, post-academic teaching, and consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies, and pedagogies. See:https://www.uu.nl/en/education/creative-humanities-academy.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Accent

Accident

Affect

Ambient

Architecture, Architexture

Assembling

Asterisk *

Between No-Longer and Not-Yet

Both/And

Brackets [], Parentheses ()

Care, Ethics of Care

Cartography, Performative Cartography

Classifixation

Collage

Collective Imaginings

Condition

Contagion

Contingency

Crossing

Curation

Dash , Hyphen -

Deixis

Diffraction

Dirt

Dispositif

Dramaturgy

Eco-, Ecology

Encounter

Engagement

Failure

Figuration

Following

Friction

Generation, Generative

Gesture

Glow

Habit

Hashtag #

Implication

Interface

Irreducibility, Irreduction

Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscopic

Making Kin, Unkinning

Micrology

Mode, Modality, Multi-Modality

Navigation

Openness

Pluriverse

Prefiguration

Procedure

Proposition

Punctuation

Randomization

Rhythm

Risk

Scale, Scaling

Scape, -scapes

Situation, Situatedness

Somatechnics

Speculation

Sticky, Stickiness

Surface

Sympathy

Synchrony, Synchronicity

Theoretical Object, Knowledge Object

Trace, Tracing

Trans-, Transing

Unlearning

Wonder

Zetesis

INDEX of Concepts

INDEX of Names

Bibliography

About the Authors