Gal Kirn is a theorist and critic based in Berlin. He holds a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Nova Gorica (2012). He works at the TU Dresden as an open topic fellow. He was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2008-2010), and a research fellow at ICI Berlin (2010-2012). He received a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2015), and was a postdoctoral fellow of the Humboldt-Foundation (2013-2016). He has been teaching courses in film, philosophy, and contemporary political theory at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Kirn published Partizanski prelomi in protislovja trznega socializma v Jugoslaviji (Partisan Ruptures and Contradictions of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia) at Sophija (2014). He is a co-editor (with Marian Burchardt) of Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Analysis after 1989 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), (with Peter Thomas, Sara Farris, and Katja Diefenbach), Encountering Althusser (Bloomsbury, 2012), (with Dubravka Sekulić and Žiga Testen), and of Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments (JvE Academie, 2012). He is also editor of Postfordism and its discontents (JvE Academie, B-Books and Mirovni Inštitut, 2010). At the moment he is writing a manuscript for Brill Publisher on the topic of partisan counter-archive.