Eckardt Lindner is a philosopher and data scientist based in Berlin. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Deleuze’s vitalism, which was awarded the Austrian State Prize for dissertations, the Award of Excellence. He has taught philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas at institutions including the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, as well as Webster Vienna Private University. He currently teaches data science and machine learning in Berlin.
His research moves between post-structuralism and critical theory, exploring contemporary articulations of vitalism and anti-vitalism, materialist thought, and corporeal passivity. His work examines the ethics and politics of life’s aberrant expressions — exhaustion, insomnia, and apathy — as sites where thought confronts its own limits, and traces how these forms emerge within the social field.