Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
Kroth, Lilian. ‘Cryo-Criticality. Michel Serres and Modes of Thinking with Ice’. In Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Moritz Ingwersen, Stephanie Posthumus, and Beate Ochsner. London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
2025
“Draw Me a Limit, and I’ll Tell You a Structure. On the Process of Distinguishing Limit Formations” In Drawing Across X Along X Between University Borders. Approaches to Drawing Research Across Disciplines (ed. Paulo Luís Almeida, Mário Bismarck, Maria Catarina Silva, and Pedro Alegria): i2ADS Editions, p. 184–200. https://doi.org/10.34626/i2ADS/2025-0001.
“Edges of the Ice: Aerial Views and Frontier Imaginaries”, co-authored with Amelia Urry, in The Aerial Turn. On the Conquest of the Air and its Impact on the City, the Territory and the Planet (ed. Matteo Vegetti), p. 133-151. https://doi.org/10.48686/8kym-7z38.
“The Ocean in the Court: Navigating Metaphors of Law and Sea”, Angelaki 30, no. 1 (2025): 66–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2025.2454827.
“Remote Sensing and Feminist Critique: Reappropriations of Sensing Across Distance”, Environment and Planning F 4, no. 1 (2025): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825241283838.
2024
“Redefining Limits: Entropy and a New Natural Contract”, Angelaki, 29 (4), p. 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2024.2382589
“‘Le Propre’: New Naturalist Understandings of Limits, Law, and Property in the work of Michel Serres”, Environmental Ethics 46 (1), p. 71-89. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202422371
“Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres”, Theory Culture & Society, 41 (2), p. 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231187593
2023
“Entropy’s Critical Translations. Following Serres’s Path through the North-West-Passage”, Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology, 2 (1), p. 1-19. Special Issue, “Entropies”. https://doi.org/10.54195/technophany.14313
2022
“Infrastructure, Translation, and Metaphor: A Reflection on Infrastructure’s Epistemic Framework and Metaphorical Displacements with Michel Serres and Bruno Latour”, in Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique, (ed. Beck, Martin; von Bismarck, Beatrice; Buchmann, Sabeth; Lafer, Ilse): Spector Books, p. 45-65.
“The Topology of Difference: Deleuze’s Nietzsche in his Politics of Folded Spaces and Subjects”, in Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference (ed. Rehberg, Andrea; Woodward, Ashley): De Gruyter, p. 163-182. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688436-010
“Critique emerging from Marshes and Mushrooms. Parasitism and Desterilisation in Serres and Tsing”, in: Parassiti. Annuario Kaiak n. 7 (ed. Cuomo, Vincenzo; Pelgreffi, Igor): Kaiak Edizioni, p. 93-115.
2021
“Wie viel Geheimnis muss sein? Geheimnis, Nichtwissen und ihre gesellschaftlichen Funktionen bei Georg Simmel”, in Die (Deutungs-) Macht des Öffentlichen. Beiträge zur dritten under.docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation (ed. Metzler, Barbara; Himmelsbach, Julia; Bertel, Diotima; Schmid, Daniela; Grohs, Nora; Nigitsch, Philipp): Danzig & Unfried.
In preparation
“What Does it Mean to Translate across Knowledges? Filter, Information, and Transformation”, French Studies, Special Issue, “Serres and Latour in Conversation” (ed. Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Korthals Altes, Henriette)
“Orbital Lines. Drawing as a Research Framework to Investigate Satellite Vision” (journal paper)
Books
Michel Serres: Limits and Passages (Monograph): Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
2025
Alignments. Drawing as a Way of Thinking–a Response to the Work of Michel Serres: KrautIn Verlag.
Interviews
Eder, Natalie, Eleven, Martin, and Kroth, Lilian: “‘Den gegenwärtigen Moment nicht verpassen’ (‘Not to Miss the Present Moment’): Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy’, in: Zeitschrift für Medien-und Kulturforschung, 8/1: SCHWERPUNKT Inkarnieren, (ed. Engell, Lorenz; Siegert, Bernhard), 80-85. https://doi.org/10.28937/ZMK-8-1_6
Book reviews
Kroth, Lilian: “Art under the Lens of Political Theory: Oliver Marchart and the Aesthetics of Explicitly Political Art” (in: Third Text Online. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 3 July 2022) http://www.thirdtext.org/kroth-marchart?fbclid=IwAR2J8zZkrPJpB5H_afFXjjf2CNTBxVFi6JRA-s-iMgmPn5jKvxM5lJwUV30
2019
Kroth, Lilian: “Reale Außen? Konfrontationen zwischen French Theory und postkolonialer Kritik im Spiegel einer dividuellen Teilhabe am Weltwerden” (Polylog, 42 (2019))
Art Criticism / Catalogue Texts
“Ground Truth beyond Ground” (catalogue text for Lena von Goedeke, forthcoming)
2024
“Ice narrated from red: the temporality of planetary data archives”, in: Sunless Seas of Ice, (ed. Kinčinaitytė, Geistė Marija): PETRO OFSETAS.
2022
Kroth, Lilian: “Drawing From and With the Oceanic: Tania Kovats at Parafin, London” (in: Third Text Online. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 25 January 2022) http://www.thirdtext.org/kroth-kovats-review
Editorial Work
SPECIAL ISSUE (co-edited with Urry, Amelia): “Remote Sensing as Method and Material”, Environment and Planning: F, –accepted proposal, forthcoming.
2014
Co-Editor of the magazine Engagée: Philosophisch-politische Einmischungen http://www.engagee.org/index.html