David Kishik is the author of To Imagine a Form of Life, a series of five paraphilosophical books. He also translated, from Italian, two of Giorgio Agamben's essay collections. Some of his shorter pieces appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lapham's Quarterly, 3:A.M. Magazine, and Public Seminar. His work has been translated into German, Russian, Korean, Farsi, and Hebrew. Previously he was a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Currently he is a professor at Emerson College in Boston. Usually he lives in New York City.