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Author: Torsten Kathke

Torsten Kathke is a historian specializing in the United States and Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries. His book "Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920" is available from Transcript publishers in Europe, and from Columbia University Press elsewhere. Torsten earned his doctorate in American Cultural History from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 2013. He subsequently worked at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He is a lecturer in American Studies at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
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Teaching Online: Video for Beginners

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Recently, I put together a few Twitter threads on my experience with teaching online. (You can find general thoughts here, and a longer thread on the technical ...

current affairs/philosophy/society/thoughts

Forgetting to Fall Has Become Harder: On Writing in Pandemia World

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

“There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss” begins a memorable passage...

opinion/thoughts

Die Stunde der Erklärer

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Morgens die Pressekonferenz des Robert Koch-Instituts, mittags Nachrichten mit allerlei gesammelten Statements aus Ministerien, Ländern, Städten. Am Abend spric...

current affairs/history/methodology

Twitter Thread and Blog Post on the Folly of Comparing the American Left to Nazis

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

In August, I posted a long thread on Twitter regarding the problem of bad-faith distortions of history. It was set off by an especially egregious statement by D...

history/opinion/society

Tom Wolfe and the Age of Self-Involvement

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Tom There’s writers in there like Pynchon. But if he were a realist. There’s thorough knowledge of American history and the people who wrote it down...

3D Glasses
art/history/opinion

A History of the Third Dimension: Past Future Visions of 3D in Movies

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

The future would be brilliant, glowing, and rich in color. The future would be lifelike on the screen as much as off. The future, Hollywood attempted – and atte...

Past Prologue
research/thoughts/Uncategorized

Past Prologue: In Between Conferences

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Easter saw me returning from a trip across Europe for two back-to-back conferences, the biannual conference of the International Association of Inter-American S...

thoughts

Deactivating Facebook

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

You may have landed here because you were looking for me on the internet. If you looked for me on Facebook, you may have noticed I’m not there. I’ve...

current affairs/history/interviews

Podcast Appearance – #KönigVonDeutschland

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Lutz Becker and Gunnar Sohn of #KönigVonDeutschland, a podcast about the many sides of, and issues related to the concept of utopia, recently spoke with me. The...

Uncategorized

Interview with Mediendienst Integration

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Mediendienst Integration recently interviewed me. It’s a German site that acts as a clearinghouse for all kinds of news and information related to the top...

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