Luise Moerke
Luise Mörke is writer, critic, and researcher, whose work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms, globalization, and capitalism. In particular, this entails thinking about: the aftermath and enduring present/ce of colonialism, especially in Francophone West Africa;
the circulation of motifs and objects as well as the production of value attached to them; how capitalism bears on habits, time, language, desires; the legitimacy of negation as a form of refusal.
Before joining Harvard, Luise studied art and visual history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, UC Berkeley, École Normale Supérieure, and at EHESS. At Humboldt, she was employed as a research assistant. She has also worked for the Berlin International Film Festival.
Luise is a frequent contributor of essays, interviews, and cultural criticism to outlets including The Baffler, BOMB, taz, MUBI notebook, The Brooklyn Rail, and Senses of Cinema. Her research and studies have been funded by The Getty Research Institute, the Association for Art History, and the DAAD. Luise especially enjoys working collaboratively and currently serves as a co-editor of re:visions, an open-access online journal for recent art and visual culture, based at Freie Universität, Berlin.