Sami Khatib is a critical theory and Walter Benjamin scholar and former researcher at the Theory Dept. of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Currently, he teaches media and cultural theory at FU Berlin; he is author of the book “Teleologie ohne Endzewck. Walter Benjamins Ent-stellung des Messianischen” (‘Teleology without End’. Walter Benjamin’s Dislocation of the Messianic), Marburg, 2013.