Boris Buden

Biography

Boris Buden, born in Croatia in 1958, is a philosopher and cultural critic and lives in Berlin. He studied philosophy in Zagreb and did his doctorate in cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the 1990s he was editor of the independent magazine Arkzin in Zagreb. Buden is currently teaching at the Bauhaus Unversity in Weimar. He recently published “Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus”. He extraordinary gifts as a speaker have been seen at various dialoguing events at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, most recently in the conversation series on “Die Ästhetik des Widerstands”.