Sylvère Lotringer (born in 1938 in Paris, France) is a
literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of
Gilles Deleuze,
Félix Guattari,
Jean Baudrillard,
Paul Virilio and
Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural
avant-garde movements through his work with
Semiotext(e); and for his interpretations of French theory in a 21st-century context. An influential interpreter of Jean Baudrillard's theories, Lotringer invented the concept "extrapolationist" as a means of describing the hyperbolic world-views espoused by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio. Lotringer is a Professor of Foreign Philosophy at the European Graduate School in
Saas-Fee,
Switzerland, and a Professor of Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA), where he teaches ethico-aesthetics.