Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer, based in Amsterdam. His research focuses on continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, and he has written on such topics as breakups, the philosophy of tickling, the history of levitation, Kafka’s philosopher dog, the comedy of Lubitsch, the theatre of Genet, Kollontai’s Bolshevik feminism, anti-sexuality, and complaining. He has also worked as a writer and dramaturge with artists on a number of projects, including a performance piece with Mario Garcia Torres (I Am Not a Flopper by Allen Smithee), an opera libretto with Raimundas Malašauskas and Loris Gréaud (Cellar Door), a film with Alexis Destoop (Kairos), and two dance pieces choreographed by Daniel Linehan (Gaze is a Gap is a Ghost, Karaoke Dialogues). He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2016), and co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (Chicago, 2020). His book How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science will be published by MIT Press in 2023. He was a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, in 2016, and at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2018-2019. From 2019 till February 2022, he worked as the senior research advisor at the VAC Foundation/GES-2 in Moscow.