Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona in Spain. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the author of several books, most recently, of Why Only Art can Save Us. Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Columbia UP, 2017), Being at Large. Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020), Outspoken. A Manifesto for the 21st Century, edited with Adrian Parr (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024), and Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia University Press, 2025).