Fellow 2023/2024 Marcus Quent
Marcus Quent is a research associate at the Department of Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts. After studying Philosophy and Theater Studies at the Leipzig University, the Aberystwyth University in Wales, and the Berlin University of the Arts, he completed his PhD on artistic constructions of time in Theodor W. Adorno, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou in 2020.
His habilitation project investigates how real and possible ends of the world affect philosophical thought confronting finitude and infinity. Marcus was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research, New York in 2018, and a fellow at the Nietzsche Kolleg in Weimar in 2020. In 2022, he was a fellow at the Leipzig Lab of the Leipzig University and a visiting scholar at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Most recently, together with Alexander García Düttmann, he published the volume “Die Apokalypse enttäuscht” [The Apocalypse is disappointing].