Introduction: Toward a Topography of the University as a Theater of Culture Wars

Florian Zappe is a cultural critic and interdisciplinary scholar based in Berlin who works on, among other things, literary and visual culture. He is the author of Das Zwischen schreiben—Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker (2013) and Control Machines’ und ‘Dispositive’—Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968 (2008). His most recent edited collection, ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara, is forthcoming. More on his work can be found online at https://www.florianzappe.xyz.