Ilios Willemars is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analysis and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Ilios works on placeholders, replacement, contagion, insurance, immunity, infrastructure, digitalization, the work of Franz Kafka, and animals that commit suicide.

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Ilios Willemars is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Ilios is the author of The Political Life of Placeholders: Poetics of Sacrifice in Digital Video Art (forthcoming, Católica University Press 2024) and editor of The Replaceability Paradigm: Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream (De Gruyter 2024). Ilios currently works on a project titled Contagious Territories, and is interested in the figure of the island as a fictional space. Ilios has worked on the cultural response to HIV/AIDS, immunity, territoriality, data, the digital, video art, surveillance at airports, the work of Franz Kafka, and animals that commit suicide.

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