Collective writing practices are common in many fields of research, although seldom reflected upon. Currently, they receive more theoretical attention in contemporary literature, which has a lot to teach about their epistemological merits.

Economics and literature are closely related: Literature does not only deal with economic conditions, but follows economic principles on a poetological level. Conversely, the economic knowledge production draws on its poetology. In the seminar, we will look at how a «rhetoric of economics» connects the poetological with methods of natural and social sciences.

Hypersensitivity – pathological reactions to otherwise harmless antigens – is on the rise. Autoimmune diseases and allergies impact our present and future societies. How did literature shape the sensitive and hypersensitive body and its illnesses? And how do culture and the arts react to a society of increasingly “intolerant” bodies?

Science occupies a prominent position in contemporary literature, as evidenced by the new boom in science fiction, auto-theory, theory-fiction, nature, or feral writing. We'll take the way there: what happens when you step out of study and research into literary writing and turn it over to the dynamics and rules of poetics?