Luka Nakhutsrishvili holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (Tübingen/Perpignan), teaches critical theory at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, and is a researcher at its Institute for Social and Cultural Research. Working at the crossroads of cultural and literary studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and political theory, Luka currently explores projects of modernity and political culture in Georgia. For over a decade, he has also translated German and French critical thought into Georgian, and has been actively engaged in movements fighting for social, political, and environmental justice. His article “Oaths, crypto-mining, and divine violence in the Caucasus: Benjamin at work in the worlds of post-Soviet Georgia” is forthcoming in Walter Benjamin in the European East (Routledge).