J'étais plus américain que les Américains – Sylvère Lotringer en conversation avec Donatien Grau

French philosopher Sylvère Lotringer (1938-2021) was the general editor of Semiotext(e). A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he was one of the main introducers and interpreters of French Theory in the United States. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007).

A former student from the Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris, Donatien Grau (born 1987 in Paris) is a literary graduate from the Political Studies Institute, Paris, and an art critic and writer. He teaches Literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, writes for several magazines, and is contributing editor of Flash Art magazine. He is interested in the communication of classical culture and the connections between art and literature.
Donatien Grau has edited Olivier Zahm's collection of texts Une avant-garde sans avant-garde – Essai sur l'art (Les presses du réel & JRP|Ringier) and has coedited Pierre Guyotat et l'Algérie (Diaphanes).