About Matthis Frickhoeffer

Matthis Frickhoeffer is a Teaching Associate at the University of Texas at Dallas. His work focuses on questions of form, semiotics, and intertextuality. He has published on Deleuze and Guattari, Benjamin as well as the work of W.G. Sebald.
Matthis Frickhoeffer is a scholar of critical theory and French thought with a background in literature studies, linguistics and art theory.

NBN Episodes hosted by Matthis:

Sheep. Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)

May 4, 2026

Rustin's Challenge

Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod

There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists tod…

Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)

April 4, 2026

The Cory Arcangel Hack

Eivind Røssaak

The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of B…

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)

March 6, 2026

Autotheories

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds.

A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical th…