Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala is a philosopher and cultural critic who grew up in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva. Since 2010, he has been an ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His books, articles, and research focus on the meaning of art, politics, and freedom in the twenty-first century, when, as he argues, "the greatest emergency has become the absence of emergency." Zabala believes that philosophy's goal is to draw our attention to these missing emergencies (such as climate change or economic inequality) to disrupt the ongoing “return to order” that surveillance capitalism and right-wing populism are forcing upon us.