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Sandro Zanetti

Sandro Zanetti

is a professor for General and Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich. He studied German, History and Philosophy in Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen (1993-1999). After research and teaching in Frankfurt am Main, Basel, Berlin and Hildesheim, Zanetti has been the program director and head of the division for General and Comparative Literature (AVL) at the University of Zurich since 2011, first as an assistant professor (2011-2015), since 2015 as an associate professor. Since its inception in 2014, he is member of the executive committee of the Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie (ZKK) (Centre for the Arts and Cultural Theory), UZH. His current research interests include: artistic production processes and poetics of (im)probability.

Other texts by Sandro Zanetti for DIAPHANES
Bibliography
  • English
  • 2019
    Aesthetic Theory, Zürich, diaphanes
  • German
  • 2013
    Words as Things / Wortdinge / Mots-choses (= figurationen 02/2013), Köln, Weimar, Wien, Böhlau
  • 2012
    Avantgardismus der Greise? Spätwerke und ihre Poetik (Hg.), Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink
  • 2012
    Schreiben als Kulturtechnik. Grundlagentexte, Berlin, Suhrkamp
  • poetics
  • contingency
  • amateurism
  • aesthetics
  • avant-garde
  • history of literature
  • intertextuality
  • invention
  • post-structuralism
  • revolution
  • Think Art
  • literary studies
  • idea
  • draft
  • authorship