15 Facts About Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago, which was absorbed into North Central College in 2017.

Adam Kotsko is chiefly known for his interpretative work on philosophers Slavoj Zizek and Giorgio Agamben, as well as his writing on American pop culture.

Adam Kotsko was born on July 19,1980, in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Davison.

Adam Kotsko completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in theology, ethics, and culture at CTS in 2009.

In 2011, Adam Kotsko was hired by Shimer College, a small great-books college in Chicago.

Adam Kotsko was one of three new Shimer professors hired that year, the school's largest intake of new faculty in more than a decade.

Adam Kotsko served on numerous committees in Shimer's self-governance body, the Shimer College Assembly.

Adam Kotsko is known for his writings on the philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whom he has credited for causing him to "break out of one particular intellectual ghetto and into another" by changing his self-identification from "non-Republican" to leftist.

In 2012, Adam Kotsko published a more popular article, "How to Read Zizek" in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Adam Kotsko has published three book-length translations of works by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

Adam Kotsko has published and delivered a number of papers on Agamben.

Adam Kotsko has published three short books on popular culture, Awkwardness: An Essay, Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television, and Creepiness.

In 2015, Adam Kotsko was the subject of controversy when he tweeted that all white people, regardless of their ancestry or whether their ancestors owned slaves, are "complicit" in slavery.

In 2016, Adam Kotsko published a book about the Devil in Christianity, The Prince of This World.

In 2018, Adam Kotsko published a book that examines neoliberalism through the lens of political theology, Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital.