Armen Avanessian

Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris and literary criticism in Bielefeld. Following his dissertation, he was working as a freelance journalist, editor and in the publishing sector in Paris and London for several years, and then from 2007 at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2011, he was a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s German department, in 2012 he was a visiting fellow at Yale University’s German department. He has held several visiting professor and lectureship positions at art academies in Nuremberg, Vienna, Basel, Copenhagen and California (CalArts) in the past few years.

He is founder of research platform www.spekulative-poetik.de and editor in chief at publishing house MERVE Verlag.

Monographs

Speculative Drawing. (with  Andreas Töpfer) Berlin: SternbergPress, 2014.
Irony and the Logic of Modernity, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: (forthcoming 2015)
Present Tense. A Poetics. (with Anke Hennig) London/New York: Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2015)
Metanoia. Ontologie der Sprache. (with Anke Hennig) Berlin: Merve, 2014.
Überschrift. Ethik des Wissens – Poetik der Existenz. Berlin: Merve 2015. (forthcoming English translation with SternbergPress)

photo: Magdalena Lepka