Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
culturalcritic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…cultural criticism, cultural sociology
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks

female, 57 years old
Feminist, African-American, intellectual, gender, activist, Scholar…culturalcritic
Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist....
Mark Dery

Mark Dery

male, 50 years old
Occidental College alumni, Cabinet magazine, Situationist International, New York University, street theater, Lingua Franca…culturalcritic
Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and...
Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
professor, Cornell University alumni, Shakespeare academia, from New York City, Berg Professor, Literary critic…Literary critic of English, culturalcritic
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

male, deceased (1888)
Victorian poetry, from Laleham, culturalcritic, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford…Literary critic
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...

Slavoj Žižek

male, 60 years old
François Regnault, From Ljubljana, postmodern, university of ljubljana, atheist, University of Paris VIII…culturalcritic
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (t...
Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

male, 75 years old
Fellowship of Southern Writer, From Louisville, Kentucky, culturalcritic, Kentucky writer, short stories, Man of Letters…cultural
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He...
Erik Davis

Erik Davis

male, 42 years old
from California, social history, Essayist, American technology writer, historian, Non-fiction writer…culturalcritic
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American social historian, cultural critic, essayist and lecturer. He is noted for his...
Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce

male, deceased (1966)
comedian, Obscenity controversy, Posthumous recognition, beat poet, Borscht Belt, Accidental death…social critic, culturalcritic
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social...
Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum

male
Hotel Theory, LGBT writer, LGBT, from the United States, gay, Jewish person…Literary critic, culturalcritic, cultural criticism
Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University....