Florian Zappe

Florian Zappe is a cultural critic and interdisciplinary scholar based in Berlin. He is the author of books on Kathy Acker (Das Zwischen  schreiben―Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker,  transcript, 2013) and William S. Burroughs (‘Control Machines’ und ‘Dispositive’―Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William  S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968, Peter Lang, 2008), the editor of the forthcoming volume ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara (Edinburgh University Press) as well as the co-editor of the essay collections The American Weird: Concept & Medium (Bloomsbury, 2020), Surveillance|Society|Culture (Peter Lang, 2020) and Spaces andFictions of the  Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (Palgrave, 2019). In addition to that, he has published widely on literary and visual culture. For further bio-bibliographical information, please see: https://www.florianzappe.xyz.