Mohamed Amer Meziane is Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, Providence. His work analyzes how the “Fall of Heaven” overturned the Earth, exploring the relationship between empire, disenchantment, and extractivism. He is the author of The States of the Earth, La Découverte, Paris (2021), and Verso Books, London (2024), winner of the Albertine Prize for non-fiction, and Alongside Worlds, Vues de l’esprit, Paris (2023), which deploys a philosophy of the invisible. He collaborates with several galleries and contemporary artists, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Le Monde, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He has been invited to give lectures at Harvard University, Cambridge; MIT, Cambridge; Yale University, New Haven; Columbia University, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; and Collège de France, Paris. His next book, The Sacrifice of Heaven will be published by Éditions du Seuil, Paris. He is also a performer and recently presented his work at the Kochi Biennale in India.
