Ilios Willemars
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. I.F.D.M.R. Willemars
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7160
- i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3923-5088
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.
More information about Ilios Willemars
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.
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (2024), Data that should not have been given: noise and immunity in James Newitt's HAVEN, Open Cultural Studies 8(1): 20220202.
- Martin N. & Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (Eds.) (2024), The replaceability paradigm: replacement and irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. & Martin N. (2024), Preamble: why replacement?. In: Martin N. & Willemars I.F.M.D.R. (Eds.), The replaceability paradigm: replacement and irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream. Berlin: De Gruyter. 1-12.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. & Martin N. (2024), Introduction: replaceability and the politics of the paradigm. In: Martin N. & Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (Eds.), The replaceability paradigm: replacement and irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream. Berlin: De Gruyter. 13-28.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (2024), Sacrificial animals and their placeholders: symbolic irreplaceability in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Das Gespräch über Gedichte”. In: Martin N. & Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (Eds.), The replaceability paradigm: replacement and irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream. Berlin: De Gruyter. 209-224.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. & Martin N. (2024), Modernity’s irreplaceability: data, derivatives, and the fungibility of the flesh. In: Martin N. (Ed.), The replaceability paradigm: replacement and irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream. Berlin: De Gruyter. 227-244.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (26 November 2021), The individual and the placeholder: incorporated subjects in digital art (Dissertatie, Humanities, Universidade Católica Portuguesa | University of Copenhagen). Supervisor(s): Capeloa Gil I. & Tygstrup F.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (17 March 2021), Filosoof Victor Kal: ‘Het is Spinoza te doen om de macht van de leider’. Het Parool.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (2021), Hitlers alligator en Spinoza’s gelijkschakeling: Een brief aan Arnon Grunberg, De Nederlandse Boekengids 6(3): .
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (2020), Placeholders there are: the other in the shadow of the bomb: a story in eight movements, Diffractions 2: 65-78.
- Willemars I.F.D.M.R. (19 December 2020), Onderzoek wijst uit: thuisgevoel laat zich niet dicteren. Het Parool.