Research Interests: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Media Studies.
Florian Endres joined the Department of Comparative Literature in 2020. He is also a Graduate Affiliate of Princeton’s Program in European Cultural Studies. His academic research and writing practice spans the fields of continental philosophy, critical theory, and media studies. In his dissertation, Florian develops a genealogy and aesthetic theory of the notion of the “glitch”, connecting the history of philosophical materialisms with disruptions of contemporary global media systems in times of the Anthropocene.
Florian received his M.A. in Philosophy from Humboldt University Berlin and his B.A. in Culture and Technology from Technical University Berlin. He has been awarded the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship for Graduate Students as well as the ISAP Scholarship, which he used to study at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) and the New School for Social Research (New York). Florian has previously worked for galleries, journals, and cultural institutions including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and Arts of the Working Class (Berlin). He is the co-author of the book The Overview Effect, published with Textem Verlag, Hamburg, 2022.
Florian was the organizer of the 2022/23 departmental lecture series titled “Universality and its Glitches” (with Esther Leslie, Yuk Hui, Mladen Dolar, Nadia Bou-Ali, Slavoj Žižek, Eric Santner, Frank Ruda, and Todd McGowan).
He is a holder of Princeton’s Social Impact Fellowship and part of the editorial board of Technophany. A Journal for Philosophy and Technology.
Selected publications
“The Shadow of the Object. Melancholia, Real Abstraction and the Suffering of Practice in Albrecht Dürer, Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Sigmund Freud” Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 69., No. 1 (2024).
“Looping Nature. Recursivity, Epigenesis and Ideology” Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1. (2024).
“The Crux of the Matter: Lacan’s Dialectical Materialism of the Signifier.” European Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 1, No. 17 (2022).
“Towards a Materialist Theory of Art.” Continental Thought and Theory. A Journal for Intellectual Freedom. Vol. 2, No. 4 (2019).
Selected Conference Papers
“On Seeing Dialectically. Photography and Abstraction,” 20th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, 2023.
“Losing What One Never Had: Melancholia and Real Abstraction.” Unlovable, The Centre for Comparative Literature's 31st Annual Conference, University of Toronto, 2023.
“The Rhythm of Stumbling: Hegel’s Speculative Sentence,” Negation, Department of German Studies, Brown University, Providence, 2023.
“A Break in Nature: Ideology, Science & Critique,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 2022.
“The Unrest in the Limit: On the Spatial Dialectic of Inside and Outside.” With/In Environments: Reimagining Frameworks and Practices for Environmental Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, 2022.
“Greedy Emptiness: Alienation & Politics.” Lack III. Psychoanalysis & Separation, Clark University, Worcester, 2019.
“For a Politics of Alienation.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2019.
“Art and Second Nature - Hegel’s Aesthetics in the Commodity World.” Concept(s): Hegel’s Aesthetics, Ljubljana, 2018.
Teaching
GER 211 "Introduction to Media Theory" (Prof. Thomas Levin), Spring 2024, preceptor.
PSY 210/HUM 210 "Foundations of Psychological Thought" (Prof. Susan Sugarman), Spring 2024, preceptor.
ECS 301 “Rethinking European Culture in the Present” (Prof. Spyros Papapetros), Fall 2023, research assistant.
Languages: German (native); French, Spanish, Latin (reading).