Nicholas Baer is Assistant Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley. He is author of Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, forthcoming in 2024) and co-editor of two volumes of film and media theory: The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933 (University of California Press, 2016) and Unwatchable (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Baer has published on film and digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, and German and German-Jewish cultural and intellectual history in journals such as Film Quarterly, Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Los Angeles Review of Books, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, and Public Seminar, and his writings have been translated into six languages. At present, he is starting a new monograph, The Ends of Perfection: On a Limit Concept in Global Film and Media Theory, and co-editing a volume on the philosophy of technology. He is a series editor of “The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies” for Amsterdam University Press.