Brigid Doherty teaches in the Departments of German and Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, where she is also an associated faculty member in the School of Architecture and a member of the Executive Committees of the Programs in European Cultural Studies and Media + Modernity. This academic year at Princeton, she is co-organizing, with psychoanalyst Ben Kafka, a new Seminar in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Studies, drawing on her own experiences as an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis in 2006-07 and as the Erikson Scholar of the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center in 2024. Her scholarship on twentieth-century German culture includes essays in Critical Inquiry, October, and MLN on Berlin Dada, Bertolt Brecht, and Rainer Maria Rilke. She is a co-editor of Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media (Harvard, 2008) and author of numerous exhibition catalogues, including Rosemarie Trockel: A Gift of My Parents (Walther König, 2020).
Brigid Doherty
Associate Professor of German and Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
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Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
This roundtable explores how traditional intellectual movements and paradigms have fragmented in the postmodern era, challenging the idea of coherent disciplinary progress. It considers how the internet, social fragmentation, and AI are reshaping how knowledge is organized, produced, and understood.