Marcus Quent

Marcus Quent is Junior Professor of Philosophy at the Düsseldorf Academy of the Arts. His work focuses on questions of aesthetics, the philosophy of time, contemporary art and critical theory. In 2020, he obtained his PhD with a thesis on artistic constructions of time in Theodor W. Adorno, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. From 2020 to 2024, he was a post-doc research associate at the Berlin University of the Arts. His habilitation project examines transformations in the concept of the world through the lense of the notions of apocalypse and catastrophe.

His most recent publications include two monographs, Gegenwartskunst: Konstruktionen der Zeit (Contemporary Art: Constructions of Time), published in 2021 by Diaphanes, and Kon-Formismen: Die Neuordnung der Differenzen (Con-Formisms: The Reorganization of Differences), published by Merve in 2018. Together with Alexander Garcia Düttmann he edited the volume Die Apokalypse enttäuscht: Atomtod Klimakatastrophe Kommunismus (The Apocalypse is Disappointing: Nuclear Death, Climate Catastrophe, and Communism) on Maurice Blanchot’s same-titled essay, published in 2023 by Diaphanes.