Stijn De Cauwer is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands. His publications include Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis (2018), Critical Image Operations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman (2019), and writings on topics such as visual studies, cultural theory, German literature (including a monograph on the work of Robert Musil), Italian philosophy and biopolitics.