I am a philosopher and my work focuses primarily on the connections between philosophy, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and science. I am a professor of philosophy at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a member of the Visual Literacy Research Program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

I studied philosophy, comparative literature, and cultural studies in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. In 2009, I received my doctorate from the University of Potsdam with a thesis on Kant’s Critique of Judgment, and in 2023, I habilitated with a thesis on “divided thinking” in Marx, Freud, Kant, and Hegel. My dissertation was published in 2011 by Fink-Verlag under the title Ästhetik der Lebendigkeit, Kants dritte Kritik (Aesthetics of Liveliness, Kant’s Third Critique), and my habilitation thesis was published in 2026 by Turia + Kant under the title Äußerung des Denkens, Marx-Freud-Kant-Hegel (Enunciation of Thought, Marx-Freud-Kant-Hegel).

Before my appointment in Vienna, I worked at several institutions, including Bard College Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts. I was an associate professor at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I also held the professorship for philosophy and aesthetics at the Bauhaus University Weimar for several semesters.

My work also includes editing and translating books by leading contemporary thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, and Alenka Zupančič. In 2017, I published a book (Deutsche Philosophie, Matthes und Seitz 2017) based on a conversation I had in Berlin with Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy about German philosophy.

Finally, I am interested in the relationship between humans and space travel: my book, Ein Weltall des Kapitals. Das Überwindung der terrestrischen Vernunft (A Universe of Capital: Overcoming Terrestrial Reason), was published in 2025 by Matthes & Seitz in Berlin.