Ondřej Macl’s activities combine literature, performance, and insights from the (post)humanities. In his studies, he researched eroticism, its historical transformations, and its potential for enchanted life practices.
In his dissertation, he focused on the topic of the “Czech sea,” drawing on the broader framework of the so-called blue humanities (sometimes also referred to as blue cultural studies, oceanic studies, blue ecocriticism, hydrocriticism, or new thalassology). Simply put, these are approaches that, over the last three decades, have placed the sea or water itself at the center of their scientific interest in order to counterbalance green or, more generally, continental approaches in the humanities.
Ondřej Macl’s activities combine literature, performance, and insights from the (post)humanities. In his studies, he researched eroticism, its historical transformations, and its potential for enchanted life practices.
In his dissertation, he focused on the topic of the “Czech sea,” drawing on the broader framework of the so-called blue humanities (sometimes also referred to as blue cultural studies, oceanic studies, blue ecocriticism, hydrocriticism, or new thalassology). Simply put, these are approaches that, over the last three decades, have placed the sea or water itself at the center of their scientific interest in order to counterbalance green or, more generally, continental approaches in the humanities.
