Fahim Amir

Fahim Amir is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Arts Bremen and lives in Bremen and Vienna. His recent writings have appeared in contexts including the Burgtheater Vienna, Stuttgart State Opera, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Carnegie Biennial Pittsburgh, mumok Vienna, Performance Space New York, e-flux journal, Mousse Magazine, among others. Amir has served as the academic director of live art festivals (Kampnagel Hamburg, 2013), curated art exhibitions (Secession Vienna, 2014), and organized symposia for contemporary music (f.e. International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt, 2016). Amir is co-editor of Transcultural Modernisms (Sternberg Press, 2013) and authored the afterword to the German edition of Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto (Merve, 2016). His book Being and Swine (Schwein und Zeit) was ranked among the top ten nonfiction books by Die Zeit, ZDF, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and was shortlisted for the Prix François Sommer. The Goethe-Institut and Frankfurt Book Fair named it one of the best books of the year. It has been fully translated into English (Between the Lines, 2020), Persian (Elm, 2021), and French (Éditions Divergences, 2022), and excerpts have been published in Chinese, Arabic, and Turkish. The Portuguese edition will be released this year as a joint publication of Brazilian publisher Igrá Kniga and the Center for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE Unicamp, São Paulo).