teaches cultural history of modernity at the University of Sofia. He was a lecturer in Bulgarian language and literature at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Since 1989 he has been a member of the research group Periphery investigating the Western images of the eastern changes. In the period between 1995 and 199 he was the leader of the group project Creation and Destruction of Symbolic World of Communism. Form 1987 to 1989 he was leader of the group Synthesis, an interdisciplinary and oppositional group of young artists, writers, academics, and students. His publications include a book on the history of Bulgarian poetry and many theoretical essays. He is the editor of Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: The Bulgarian Case (1995).