Eric Jarosinski
Eric Jarosinski (* 1971 in Park Falls , Wisconsin ) is an American German studies scholar who has been running a successful Twitter channel since 2012 under the persona “NeinQuarterly” with the subtitle “A Compendium of Utopian Negation”.
Life
Jarosinski wrote his Bachelor thesis at the University of Wisconsin on The Milwaukee Forward and World War I in 1993 . He received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin with a thesis on Adorno, Benjamin and Kracauer ( The rhetoric of transparency in the New Berlin ).
He posted over 35,000 tweets on his Twitter channel (as of June 2016), he has over 135,000 followers (as of June 2016) and a significant media response, for example in The New Yorker , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Spiegel-Online and Die Zeit found. The original reason to use Twitter intensively was a creative crisis in which Jarosinski was not able to write a planned book. Jarosinski has dealt intensively with Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Benjamin , Theodor W. Adorno and critical theory and studied in Germany, among others.
In 2014 he visited numerous cities in Europe, the USA and Canada on the “Failed Intellectual Tour”.
He was awarded the Virus Thrower Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 .
Fonts
- (Co-author): Over 140 characters. Authors give an insight into their Twitter workshop. Frohmann, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-944195-24-7 ( website )
- No. A manifesto . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3-10-002389-6
Web links
- Page NoQuarterly.com by Jarosinski
- Report in the New Yorker about Jarosinski
- Jarosinski's Twitter channel
- Video with Jarosinski at ZEIT, Hamburg, March 20, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jarosinski, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American German studies scholar and Twitter author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Park Falls , Wisconsin |