Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Coordinator of the Centre for Art and Philosophy. He is editor of several books, including Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and De nieuwe Franse filosofie (Boom, 2011), and has authored Sloterdijk. Binnenstebuiten denken (Klement, 2004). With a VENI research project he is developing a new materialist approach to the ethico-political problem of ressentiment. In addition, he is finalizing a book in which he proposes a speculative concept of mannerism entitled Matter, Manner, Idea: Deleuze and Mannerism.