David Kishik
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL ARTS & INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
B.A. Haifa University
Ph.D. New School for Social Research
David Kishik is the author of To Imagine a Form of Life, a series of paraphilosophical books.
Volume 1, To Imagine a Language, is an examination of the axis around which Ludwig Wittgenstein's evolving thought turns.
Volume 2, The Coming Politics, is a fragmentary investigation of the unitary power behind Giorgio Agamben's work.
Volume 3, A Theory of a City, is an imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, set in twentieth-century New York.
Volume 4, On Genesis before Abraham, is a radical rereading of the opening chapters of the Hebrew Bible, refitted for a post-secular and a post-human world.
The last volume in this pentalogy will synthesize the previous studies into a single, essential, and personal text.
Kishik also translated, from Italian, two of Agamben's essay collections: Nudities and What Is an Apparatus?
Some of his shorter pieces appeared in The New York Times, as well as here, and here (and here, in Hebrew).
Before joining Emerson he was a fellow at the ICI Berlin.
In 2016 David received the Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching.
