Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris and literature in Bielefeld. After completing his dissertation, he worked for several years as a freelance journalist, editor and in publishing in Paris and London and from 2007-2014 at the FU-Berlin. In 2011 he was Visiting Fellow at the German Department of Columbia University, in 2012 Visiting Fellow at the German Department of Yale University. In recent years he has held several visiting professorships and lectureships at various art academies in Nuremberg, Vienna, Basel, Copenhagen, Paris and California (CalArts).

He is the founder of the research platform www.spekulative-poetik.de, editor-at-large at MERVE Verlag and organizes the weekly theory series "Armen Avanessian & Enemies" at the Volksbühne Berlin. His books have been translated into numerous languages.

Monographs:

Phänomenologie ironischen Geistes. Ethik, Poetik und Politik der Moderne. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2010.

Präsens. Poetik eines Tempus. (gemeinsam mit Anke Hennig) Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes, 2012.

Metanoia. Ontologie der Sprache. (gemeinsam mit Anke Hennig) Berlin: Merve, 2014.

Speculative Drawing. (gemeinsam mit Andreas Töpfer) Berlin: SternbergPress, 2014.

Überschrift. Ethik des Wissens – Poetik der Existenz. Berlin: Merve 2015.

Miamification. Berlin: Merve 2017.

Metaphysik zur Zeit. Berlin: Merve 2018.

One plus One. Spekulative Poetik von Feminismus, Algorithmik, Politik und Kapital (gemeinsam mit Anke Hennig), Berlin: Merve 2019.

I - I. Spekulative Poetik von Feminismus, Algorithmik, Politik und Kapital (gemeinsam mit Anke Hennig), Berlin: Merve 2019.