Hugo Reinert

• Reinert, Hugo (2022). Fossil. Environmental Humanities. ISSN 2201-1919. doi: 10.1215/22011919-9962882.
• Jordheim, Helge; Op de Beke, Laura; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Zuiderveen Borgesius, Leonoor; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures . History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(1), p. 4–26. doi: 10.1111/hith.12250. Show summary

  In this contribution to the “Historical Futures” project, the Lifetimes Research Collective adds to the geological turn currently underway in historiography by presenting a theory of fossils and fossilizations as a way of rethinking the concept of “historical futures.” We proceed by addressing two pivotal speech acts in Western historiography, in the broad sense: the “fossil question,” which was first raised in the middle of the seventeenth century, about how a solid can end up inside another solid and the nineteenth-century Marxist slogan for the modern world, “all that is solid melts into air.” Transported into the early twenty-first century and faced with the challenges of the Anthropocene, both take on new meanings and perform new tasks. In this article, we experiment with different ways of thinking and writing fossils into more general questions of historiography and historical theory by investigating how they affect conceptualizations of historical time. Furthermore, we demonstrate how fossilizations indicate possible trajectories for new materialist speculations, distributing agency to various matters, physical and virtual, in the Earth's crust as well as in museums and video games. Finally, we ask how a theory of fossilization can be seen to decenter the human subject by exploring the processes of decomposition and solidification taking place in the human body. In this way, the arrangements of timescales and lifescales that have given rise to disciplines like history, geology, and biology are destabilized in favor of open-ended historical knowledge ventures that transgress temporal and epistemological borders.

• Münster, Ursula; Schroer, Asu Schroer; Van Dooren, Thom & Reinert, Hugo (2021). Introduction: Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction; Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights. Cultural anthropology. ISSN 0886-7356.
• Münster, Ursula; Van Dooren, Thom; Schroer, Asu Schroer & Reinert, Hugo (2021). Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction. Cultural anthropology. ISSN 0886-7356.
• Reinert, Hugo (2020). The Inhabited Sky: Notes on a celestial zoology. In Jørgensen, Dolly & Jørgensen, Finn Arne (Ed.), Silver Linings : Clouds in art and science. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050899. p. 104–111.
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). Requiem for a junk-bird: Violence, purity and the wild. Cultural Studies Review. ISSN 1446-8123. 25(1), p. 29–40. doi: 10.5130/csr.v24i1.6387. Full text in Research Archive
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). Les crânes et le cochon qui danse. Terrain. ISSN 0760-5668. p. 52–67. doi: 10.4000/terrain.18076.
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). The skulls and the dancing pig : Notes on apocalyptic violence. Terrain. ISSN 0760-5668. p. 1–15. doi: 10.4000/terrain.18051. Full text in Research Archive
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). The Midwife and the Poet: Bioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock. Environmental Humanities. ISSN 2201-1919. 11(1), p. 137–151. doi: 10.1215/22011919-7349455. Full text in Research Archive

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• Reinert, Hugo (2019). "The Stone that Ran to Paris: Some reflections on climate justice and geological agents".

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