Bryan Norton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in German at the Stanford Humanities Center. His research investigates how writers, filmmakers, and activists around the globe seek to address the Gordian knot of environmental crisis, postcolonial upheaval, and technological change. Norton is the co-editor (with Mark Hansen) of a forthcoming volume on Stiegler, Negentropic Orientations, and is completing his first solo monograph, Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature in German Romanticism (under contract with Stanford University Press). His recent writings can be found in SubStance, German Quarterly, Theory, Culture and Society, and Journal of Visual Culture.