Tom Vandeputte

Tom Vandeputte is professor (lector) of philosophy and critical theory at the Sandberg Institute, where he is also head of the Critical Studies department. Since completing his PhD at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London, he has been a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover and the University of Cambridge. His book Critique of Journalistic Reason was published by Fordham University Press in 2022. Vandeputte is currently working on book projects on Günther Anders’ apocalyptics, Walter Benjamin’s political thought and Simone Weil’s early philosophical writings. Recent publications include the articles "Continuity as Catastrophe: Origins of a Thesis in Walter Benjamin” (New German Critique, 2023) and “Politicisation of Nature: Luxemburg, Kraus, Benjamin” (MLN, 2024).