Dejan Lukic

Dejan Lukic (PhD) is a scholar and writer, and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. His work revolves around the inescapable convergence of art and politics, while taking seriously stylistic forms of writing around and about this convergence. He has published two books (one on the aesthetics of terrorism and the other as a collection of thought-images), as well as numerous essays on art and philosophy. He is currently writing two manuscripts: a) “The Charismatic Image” (on the nature of charisma) and b) “Sickness Unto Life” (on delirium of literature as a form of health). Dejan is a faculty member in the Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and teaches online courses for the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin and for the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Ireland. He runs an art & ecology Summer school—Step Not Beyond—on the Adriatic island of Cres and co-directs the culinary-philosophical troupe Vitalist Cuisine.  http://www.stepnotbeyond.com/ and http://www.vitalistcuisine.com/