Hampshire College

Christoph Cox, professor of philosophy, received a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Cox teaches and writes on 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy and critical theories of art and music.

He is the author of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999) and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, 2004). Cox writes regularly on contemporary art and music for Artforum, The Wire, and other magazines.

He is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine and co-curator of Cabinet's CD series. He has curated exhibitions at The Kitchen in New York City and G Fine Art Gallery in Washington D.C.

Cox has written catalog essays for exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass MoCA, the South London Gallery, Berlin's Akademie der Künste, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Seattle Center, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

He is currently working on book projects on the philosophy of sound art and experimental music.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
Audio Culture: Theories and Practices in Music Now (Spring 2010)
Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2010)
Philosophy, Relativism and Truth (Fall 2009)
Philosophies of Modern and Contemporary Art (Spring 2009)