Selected Publications 

2014 On the Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions without Owners. London/New York: Verso

2012 Zweite Welten und andere Lebenselixiere. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer

2011 Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt. Elemente materialistischer Philosophie, Frankfurt/M.: Fischer

2008a Das schmutzige Heilige und die reine Vernunft. Symptome der Gegenwartskultur. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer

2008b Die Ästhetik der Interpassivität. Hamburg: philo fine arts

2005 (Ed.): Stop That Comedy! On the Subtle Hegemony of the Tragic in Our Culture, Vienna: Sonderzahl (in English and German)

2002 Die Illusionen der anderen. Über das Lustprinzip in der Kultur, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp

2000 (Ed.): Interpassivität. Studien über delegiertes Genießen, Wien/ New York: Springer

1997 Althusser – Das Schweigen im Text. München: Fink

Professional Experience

2014 - now Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz 

2009-2014 Professor of Philosophy, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

2012 and 2011 Visiting Professor at École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse, France (member of diploma jury)

2004-2013 Visiting Professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

2001-2013 Lecturer at Technical University of Vienna, Department of Art and Design (module visual culture), Vienna, Austria

2011 and 2010 (summer term) Visiting professor of Cultural Analysis at University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of English Studies (Chair: Prof. Elisabeth Bronfen)

2011 Visiting professor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2006 Visiting professor at Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005 and 2004 Visiting professor at Ecole des beaux-arts de Strasbourg, France

2004 Visiting professor at Zurich Academy of the Arts, Switzerland

1993-2009 Assistant professor of Cultural Theory at University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria, Department of Experimental Design

1999 Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design

1998 Visiting Professor at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin, Germany

Education

2002

Habilitation in Cultural Theory, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria

1999-2013

Founding member of the Vienna-based research group in psychoanalysis “stuzzicadenti” which attempts to connect clinical experience and cultural analysis

2000

Habilitation-equivalent Qualification in Art, accorded by University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria

1993

Ph. D. Department of Philosophy, Vienna

Awards and Research Fellowships

2009-2011 Research fellowship by Vienna’s fund for science, research and technology (WWTF),

awarded to “stuzzicadenti” research group of psychoanalysis for the project “Transferences:

Psychoanalysis – Art – Society”. (click to access the website)

2007 „The Missing Link“ award for connecting psychoanalysis with other scientific disciplines, for the

first time awarded in 2007 by Psychoanalytic Seminar of Zurich, Switzerland

2000-2001 Fellowship, Institute of Cultural Theory, Essen, Germany,

member of Slavoj Zizek’s research group "Antinomies of Postmodern Reason".