Cédric Weidmann (born 29 July 1991) is a Swiss writer, philologist and literary promoter. He holds a doctorate from the ETH Zurich (2022).[1][2]
Biography
In 2006, at the age of 15, Cédric Weidmann created his first author literary blog.[3] He participated in cantonal and national literary competitions, published in literary periodicals, studied and then taught Germanistics, literary theory, and economic history at ETH Zurich.[1][2]
Since 2013, he has been a member of the editorial board of the Zurich countercultural magazine delirium [de].[1][2]
In 2022, he defended his doctoral dissertation, "Anticipating Nostalgia. Calculating the transformation of language and capital" (German: Antizipation der Nostalgie. Das Kalkül der Verklärung von Sprache und Kapital), in which, based on the material of science fiction works and political-economic theories, including the Marxist theory of surplus value, he developed a typology of nostalgia as a sociocultural phenomenon that devalues the past in favor of the future ("productive" type) or the future in favor of the past ("extractive" type).[4] In the same year, he became the head of the Aargauer Literaturhaus in Lenzburg, an institution in whose work he had been actively involved since 2009.[1][2][5]
Weidmann has published short stories, articles, essays on science fiction, futurology, video games, collective literary practices, and the relationship between literature and economics in various German-language media, including delirium, entwürfe [de], Das Magazin [de], Das Narr [de] (Switzerland), The Gap (Austria), Süddeutsche Zeitung, litradio (Germany),[6] the thematic anthology Biocatalyst. Psychoactive Literature (German: Wirkstoff. Psychoaktive Literatur, 2022), etc.[2]
Weidmann C. (September 30, 2016). "Filmische Buchbesprechung zum Werk Kracht, Christian. (2016). Die Toten: Roman (2. Auflage ed.). Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch". Zenodo.
