Monographs
2024
Golden Pudel-Ethnographie
Atmosphäre, Netwerke und Reputation in einem hamburger Nachtklub.
Transcript (Bielefeld).
Review: Jirsak, Karin. « Ethnografie des Golden Pudel Clubs: Wummernder Tempel der Aufrichtigkeit ». Die Tageszeitung: taz, 7 february 2025. https://taz.de/Ethnografie-des-Golden-Pudel-Clubs/!6066361/.
Forthcoming
Sketching Brains. The micro mystics of knowing in neurosurgery and graphic ethnography.
Duke University Press. Forthcoming.
In preparation
An Anthropology of/with Virtual Reality.
Book presentation at RUSTlab Bochum, June 2025.
2018
Exercices d’ambiances
Thematic issue of Communications, n° 102, co-ed. with Olivier Gaudin, 05/2018. Peer-reviewed.
2025 Stretching Materialities,
ed. Winkler, C., Stein, C. & Object Space Agency (including Le Calvé M.). Hamburg: ADOCS Verlag. Open Access Link
Sense-Acts and the Diffracting Theater,
with Ksenia Fedorova. Berlin: Berlin UP, forthcoming.
Drift. Sink. Emerge. Repeat. Diffracting the Critical through Multimodal Submersions,
with Petra Beck and Robert Stock. Berlin: Berlin UP, forthcoming (preprint: link).
Neurosurgery, brain modelling & medical anthropology
Accepted. “Acting with an atmosphere: The poiesis of an electronic music club.” Theory, Culture & Society.
2025. “La neurochirurgie à l’épreuve de son digital twin.” Technique et Culture n° 79, ed. Joulian, Carraro & Nova.
2025. “Sounding neurons: Virtual reality as design anthropological probe.” In Stretching Materialities, ed. Winkler, Stein & Object Space Agency. Hamburg: ADOCS Verlag.
2024. “Couper dans le cerveau pour le « fun ». Essai d’anthropologie graphique sur une préparation expérimentale à la neurochirurgie.” Revue d’Anthropologie de la Connaissance 18(4).
2024. “The dance of the knife: stretching the sense of the cut in neurosurgical practice.” In Toward a New Culture of the Material, ed. Bauer, Kim, Marienberg & Schaeffner. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2024. “Conceptualization and implementation of a multidisciplinary course combining neurosurgery and design thinking.” With Picht et al. Advances in Medical Education and Practice 15.
2021. “Letter: A note on neurosurgical resection.” With Picht et al. Neurosurgery 89(5).
2020. “Apprendre à regarder le cerveau en 3D. Compte-rendu ethno-graphique d’un séminaire interdisciplinaire au service de neurochirurgie de la Charité à Berlin.” Anthropologie & Santé 21.
2020. “Intersecting Cartographic Imperative. The mapmaking practices of a medical artist in the wake of brain science.” Kunstlicht 41(2–3).
Under review. “The multimodal ethnographer as an experimental publisher. Digital fieldwork flows in radical open access.” American Anthropologist.
Forthcoming. “The Neuroclinical Media Lab as Diffracting Theatre.” In Sense-Acts and the Diffracting Theater, ed. Le Calvé & Fedorova. Berlin: Berlin Universities Publishing.
2024. “Adopting the Perspective of Things: An ethnographic essay on a neurosurgical model.” Ethnographiques.org 47.
2024. “Beyond Fun: Experiments in Epistemic Dizziness.” With Acksel & Josties. EASST Reviews 43(1).
2021. “Drawing a Home for Anthropology.” Entanglements 4(1).
Translations
2023
Théories Du Design – Une Introduction. Claudia Mareis.
Dijon: Presses du Réel. Translation from German to French, (304 p.) ISBN : 978-2-37896-244-9, LINK.
2018 Böhme, Gernot. 2018. “L’atmosphère, fondement d’une nouvelle esthétique ?”
Translation from German to French, in Communications, no. 102 (May): 25–49. LINK.
Radical open-access digital publications
Cutting Up Writing Up:
Anthropoetry at The Edge of The Human
Edited by Maxime Le Calvé
Foreword by Stuart McLean
With contributions by:
Yoonha Kim, Theodore Stanley, Sandro Simon, Geoffrey Garrison, Wendy Chua, Stuart McLean & Maxime Le Calvé
(50 p.)
AnthroReverb
Berlin
2024
LINK to DIGITAL: doi.org/10.21428/80e887d9.9547e9a3
2022-… Sketching Brains. A participant exhibition
Texts and drawings by Maxime Le Calvé, co-curated with Anna L. Roethe. https://speculativerealitieslab.pubpub.org/
2021-… stretching senses school
An emergent learning community between design anthropology and creative coding. Co-curated with Yoonha Kim. https://stretchingmaterialities.pubpub.org/
2023 Anthropologies of Technique, Techniques of Anthropology - Multimodal Ethnographies of Making
Seminar publication including collective fieldwork reports and journals of technique by the students of the Institute für Europäische Ethnologie, seminar taught with Sharon Macdonald at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. https://anthrotech.pubpub.org/
Illustrated blog articles (selection)
2023 “Drawing on EER”
Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting, Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin) & Interactive Minds Center (Aarhus University) with Geoffrey Garrison. LINK
2020 “Deep within the world. Thinking, writing & caring with Hannah Arendt”
New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin. Part of the issue “Caring”, with Carla Dietmair and Simone Stimm. LINK
2020 “The virtual tour as digital fieldwork between art and anthropology: on the transitional, transformative and ephemeral nature of the exhibition space”
MoA Blog, article on the project TA Tour with the research group Object Space Agency
2018 « “Spitzenmeesig” – die erste Virtual-Reality-Produktion von Jonathan Meese und seiner Mutter Brigitte Meese. Ethnographische Probenberichte »
Immersion - Berliner Festspiele Blog, 03/2018, https://blog.berlinerfestspiele.de/mutter-und-sohn-realitaet-trifft-kunst-z-u-k-u-n-f-t-der-unendlichkeit/
2017 “Making of Mondparsifal” – blog post series, 10 posts.
Immersion - Berliner Festspiele Blog, June-October 2017, https://blog.berlinerfestspiele.de/making-of-mondparsifal-in-berlin-teil-x/