Philosophy

Jacques Derrida's work originated the school of deconstruction, a strategy of analysis that has been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law and architecture.

Dutch architect, known for the building of Kunsthal in Rotterdam and for his theoretical input in architecture.

Plato, born in Athens around 427 BC, was considered to be one of the earliest philosophers. He lived during the Age of Synthesis.

Member of the Frankfurt School. Adorno argued that popular media are the product of a 'culture industry' which keeps the population passive, preserving dominance of capitalism at the expense of true...

Best known perhaps for his anti-humanist interpretation of Marx, Louis Althusser’s predominant legacy is the critique of Hegelian Marxism, and infamous analysis that the early writings of Marx are...

Deleuze is a key figure in postmodern French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference...

Bataille is often called the metaphysician of evil because he was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potentialities of obscene.

French social and literary critic, whose writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading intellectual movements of the 20th century. In his lifetime Barthes published seventeen books and...

David Bowie is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer.

A famous social philosopher and "hyper realist," he is a leading critic of the postmodern culture, the economy of communication, and the media system.

Lacan refashioned Freudian psychiatry, and suggested that the unconscious was structured like a language, thereby giving a key role to semiotics and dissolving the usual boundaries between the...

'There is nothing about being female that naturally binds women. There is not even such a state as "being" female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific...

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had wide influence not only (or even primarily) in...

An artist, curator and theoretician. Peter Weibel’s oeuvre can be described in the following categories: Conceptual Art, Performance, Experimental Film, Video art and Computer art.

Paul Virilio has been a sceptic voice in the debate about new technologies. Being not a conservative, in the sense of not accepting progress, what he pretends is the analysis of the price, the...

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist.

Uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture.

An American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy...

A distinguished British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.

Van Weelden was editor of the art magazine Mediamatic since 1991. Since 1999 he has been a member of the editors of the literary magazine De Gids. Van Weelden is a prominent member of the Dutch...

Avital Ronell is a professor of philosophy in New York currently chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and teaches German and comparative literature and theory – in addition to...

Maurice joined Mediamatic in 1987 after his graduation as an architect at TUDelft. We published his graduation project, a villa for Michael Jackson in our magazine . He went on to found NOX...

In het hart van Rotterdam, op steenworpafstand van het Centraal Station, bevindt zich een opvallend gebouw: De Unie, hét debatpodium van Rotterdam. Een plek waar uiteenlopende mensen – van...