Philipp Linstädter

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Philipp Linstädter was a Research Associate at the Chair of Cultural Philosophy/Philosophy of Cultures at the European University Viadrina. His work primarily focuses on Cultural, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Studies, as well as on the thematic complexes of Négritude and Black Atlantic, museum studies, and multidirectional memory. His doctoral project, "Agonistic Humanisms and Decolonial Worldmaking," explores critical revisions of humanism, universalism, and cosmopolitanism immediately before, during, and after the period of decolonization. By engaging with the thoughts of Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy, and Sylvia Wynter, the project aims to illustrate how an agonistic perspective continues the traditions of European modernity, which is aware of the colonial, imperial, and racist tendencies within humanism through its own historical experience. The authors discussed articulate projects of decolonial worldmaking beyond the nation and empire, and promote a non-essentialist and non-anthropocentric humanism of hybridity and a universal universalism on the scale of the world.

  • Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, and Post-Marxism
  • Cultural, Gender, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Studies
  • Theories of the Museum, Memory, and Multidirectional Memory
  • Cultural Concepts of Creolization, Hybridization, and Diasporization
  • Approaches to Négritude, Black Atlantic, Afropolitanism, and the Afropean

Research and Teaching Activities

2020 – 2025: Research Associate at the Chair of Cultural Philosophy/Philosophy of Cultures, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
2020: Research Associate in the Department of Cultural Philosophy and Theory, Institute for Cultural Studies, Leipzig
2017 – 2020: Research Assistant in the Department of Cultural Philosophy and Theory, Institute for Cultural Studies, Leipzig
2014 – 2016: Student Assistant and Tutor for "Introduction to Academic Work," Institute for Social Sciences, Kiel

Curatorial Activities

2020: Exhibition "Everyday Life / Revolution: Leipzig 1918-1923" and supporting program, featuring Daniel Kulla, Klaus Gietinger, and Bini Adamczak, funded by the Saxon Development Bank in cooperation with Tim Rood and naTo e.V.
2019: Sociocultural project "The Ends of Work" and supporting program, featuring Nassima Sahraoui, Konrad Paul Liessmann, and Guillaume Paoli, funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony in cooperation with naTo e.V.

Academic Education

2020: Master of Arts in Cultural Studies with a thesis on "'Potentiality, not Freedom': Giorgio Agamben's Marginalia on a Theory of Inactivity"
2016 – 2020: Studies in Cultural Studies (M.A.) at the University of Leipzig
2016: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Sociology with a thesis on "Of Machines and Other Animals: Re-negotiating the Question of Animality in Technosciences"
2011 – 2016: Studies in Philosophy, Education, and Sociology (B.A.) at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel

  • "Radical Anti-Racism, Translocal Solidarity, and Planetary Consciousness: Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic" - BA Winter Semester 2024/2025
  • "Critical Humanisms on a Global Scale" - BA Winter Semester 2024/2025
  • "World Memory, Singularity, and Multidirectional Memory: the 'Historikerstreit 2.0'" - BA Summer Semester 2024
  • "'Scars of Democracy': Introduction to Theories of Fascism and Aspects of Right-Wing Populism" - BA Summer Semester 2024
  • "Introduction to Post- and Decolonial Feminisms" - BA Winter Semester 2023/2024
  • "Collecting, Expropriating, Archiving, Exhibiting, Returning? Critique and Utopia of the Museum" - BA Winter Semester 2023/2024
  • "Between Culture and Identity. Introduction to Critical Approaches of Mixing and Hybridization" - BA Summer Semester 2023
  • "Achille Mbembe: Decolonization – Reparation – World Revelation" - BA Summer Semester 2023
  • "Frantz Fanon: Revolutionary Psychiatrist and Icon of Anti-Colonial Resistance" - BA Winter Semester 2022/2023
  • "Sharing a World. Cosmopolitanism, Migration, Hospitality" - Winter Semester 2022/2023
  • "Coloniality of Power and Epistemic Violence. Introduction to Decolonial Theories" - BA Summer Semester 2022
  • "Uprising of the Precariat. Feminist Revisions of Care, or: From the Care Crisis to the Care Strike" - BA Summer Semester 2022
  • "The Mysteries of the Gift. Gift Economies, Conflicts over Property, and the Desire for the Pure Gift" - BA Summer Semester 2022
  • "In the Sign of State Violence. Counter-Violence and Nonviolence" - BA Winter Semester 2021/2022
  • "Derrida and the 'AnimalWord': Deconstruction of the Anthropological Difference" - BA Summer Semester 2021
  • "In Defense of Inactivity. Negative Anthropology and the Politics of Pure Means in Giorgio Agamben" - BA Summer Semester 2021
  • "The Relevance of So-called Primitive Accumulation: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives" - BA Winter Semester 2020/2021
  • "Mourning and Melancholy: Concepts of Loss and Preservation" - BA Winter Semester 2020/2021
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