Degrees:
Univ.-Doz., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
M.A., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Author/editor of 26 books; author of 80+ articles and book chapters; translator of 11 books and of 90+ articles; some of his work has been translated into 7 languages.
His editorial and translation work intends to contribute to the ideas of equ(al)ity, diversity and inclusion. His (co-)edited volumes as well as his translations of 70+ authors from 5 continents have been undertaken in the hope that they might contribute to the circulation of important diverse and heterogeneous voices from different linguistic and cultural traditions.
Most recently, he finished a book about the Austrian writer Peter Handke (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2019) entitled "Peter Handkes literarische Romantik".
He is preparing an edited volume examining the question of the arts (literature and theater, music, painting) in Alain Badiou's seminal work. This volume succeeds volumes on "Slavoj Zizek und die Künste" and on "Jacques Rancière und die Literatur".
Furthermore, he is preparing a volume that examines the contemporary constellation of biopolitics, aesthetics, and art by gathering theoretical and artistic perspectives from and/or on China, Japan, Turkey, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, and Germany. Publication date for both volumes will be end of 2025.
His next monograph - a continuation of the aesthetic-political project delineated in the book on Handke - will engage with the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2004) to examine whether Jelinek's (conception of) literature can be grasped in terms of a formidable disarticulation of the romantic notion of "great literature" as supposed foundation of "eigentliche Politik" invoking some secret destiny for some elect identitarian "Volk" that is, as Jelinek brilliantly demonstrates, at the heart of Martin Heidegger's readings of German and Austrian (or in Heidegger's odious ontological-nationalist jargon: "deutschösterreichische") poetry and of multiple ongoing attempts in some current academic discourses and societies, as well as in interconnected (meta)political projects (in the US, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, to name only some of the obvious countries) to continue with this archi-fascist legacy while denying its problematic ramifications (thereby perpetuating Holocaust revisionism and the blatant disavowal of anti-Semitism in Heidegger).
Finally, he is working on essays and presentations addressing the following topics: the question of "Dichtung" in Alain Badiou and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; the issue of justice in Handke's literature; the constellation of the museum, the avant-garde and biopolitics in the aesthetic writings of Jacques Rancière and Boris Groys; curatorship as an aesthetic-political practice in the work of Groys; different aesthetic readings of the Russian avant-garde.
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20th Century and Contemporary German, French, Italian, Slovene Philosophy
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Aesthetics, (Austrian) Literature
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Anti-Semitism, Biopolitics, Colonialism, Communism, Europe, Genocide, Monstrosity, Racism
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Adorno, Agamben, Badiou, Balibar, Baudrillard, Bernhard, Celan, Dennett, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Grossman, Groys, Handke, Hofmannsthal, Jelinek, Kafka, Laclau, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, Perniola, Rancière, Sartre, Schmitt, Vattimo, Wagner, Žižek
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