Aaron Schuster (BA Amherst College; MA, PhD Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a philosopher and writer, based in Amsterdam. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (Short Circuits Series, MIT Press, 2016). He has written on such topics as the history of levitation, the politics of sleep, the debt drive, Alexandra Kollontai and Bolshevik feminism, the comedy of Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Genet’s political theater, Franz Kafka’s philosopher dog, sex and anti-sex in Andrei Platonov, and complaining. He has been a fellow at the Theory Department of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, Rijeka, Croatia. In 2016, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the Center for Disciplinary Innovation, the Franke Institute for the Humanities. In 2018-2019 he is a member of the Society of Fellows, Cornell University.