is full Professor of philosophy at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He also is an ancien Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. His areas of research and teaching interest include aesthetics, political philosophy, and cultural theory with a special focus on French and Italian contemporary philosophy (in particular Foucault, Deleuze, and new-Operaism) and the legacy of German philosophy (in particular Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger) in contemporary thought.