Armen Avanessian Author & Editor

Armen Avanessian is Visiting Faculty in the MA Aesthetics and Politics program in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, USA, and Visiting Lecturer at the Art Institute, FHN Academy Basel, Switzerland. In 2012 he founded a bilingual research platform on Speculative Poetics, including a series of events, translations and publications: www.spekulative-poetik.de. He also is the co-editor of Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury 2016). Anke Hennig teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature and is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 ‘Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits’. Her research interests lie in poetics and the philosophy of literature, Russian Formalism, the avant-garde, and totalitarian aesthetics.