Thomas Eder is a literary scholar, teaching in the German Department at the University of Vienna. He is also at the editorial board of the magazine wespennest (wespennest.at) and is responsible for the scientific and literary program in the kunsthaus muerz (kunsthausmuerz.at). He has published widely on the neo-avant-garde and on cognitive poetics / epistemological aesthetics, including: Oswald Wiener’s Theory of Thought (co-edited with t. Raab und M. Schwarz, De Gruyter 2023) and Die Sprachkunst Gerhard Rühms (co-edited with P. Pechmann, ed. text+kritik 2023).
Thomas Eder
Contributions
Post-Avant Translation Practices: Language Poetry in Austria & The Low Countries
American Language poetry can be considered a neo-avant-garde movement, at least if we refer to Hal Foster’s definition of the term as the result of a “deferred action,” a later event that recodes the original (historical) avant-garde—e.g.