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Jacques Derrida
1930 — 2004 Deconstruction Philosopher
Jacques Derrida's work originated the school of deconstruction, a strategy of analysis that has been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law and architecture.
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Rem Koolhaas
Architect
Dutch architect, known for the building of Kunsthal in Rotterdam and for his theoretical input in architecture.
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Plato
Philosopher
Plato, born in Athens around 427 BC, was considered to be one of the earliest philosophers. He lived during the Age of Synthesis.
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Louis Althusser
Marxist philosopher
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...
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Georges Bataille
(1897-1962)French essayist, philosophical theorist, novelist
Bataille is often called the metaphysician of evil because he was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potentialities of obscene.
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Theodor W. Adorno
Philosopher (1903-1969)
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...
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Gilles Deleuze
Philosopher and postmodernist (1925—1995)
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...
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Roland Barthes
semiotician
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...
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David Bowie
David Bowie is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer.
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Jean Baudrillard
Sociologist and Philosopher
A famous social philosopher and "hyper realist," he is a leading critic of the postmodern culture, the economy of communication, and the media system.
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Donna Haraway
'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...
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Jacques Lacan
Philosopher
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...
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Michel Foucault
Philosopher and historian
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...
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage
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.
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Peter Weibel
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.
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Paul Virilio
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...
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Slavoj Žižek
Sociologist
Uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture.
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Walter Ong
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...
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Timothy Williamson
A distinguished British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
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Dirk Van Weelden
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...
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Avital Ronell
Feminist Philosopher
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...
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Maurice Nio
Thinking architect (1959—2023)
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...
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Organization:
Frank Mohr Instituut
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Organization:
De Unie
debatpodium
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...