Utku Özmakas received his PhD in Philosophy from Hacettepe University in 2016 and became an associate professor in 2021. His research interests include political philosophy, biopolitics, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and philosophy of language. He has translated nearly thirty books by thinkers such as Simon Critchley, Thomas Lemke, Terry Eagleton, Jacques Ranciere, İkbal Ahmet, Stuart Hall and Nancy Fraser. As well as teaching at the university he also works as an editor. His books are Şiirimizde Milenyum Kuşağı (Millennium Generation in Our Poetry, Pan, 2008), Şiir İçin Paralaks (Parallax for Poetry, 160. Kilometre, 2013), Biopolitik: Güç ve Direniş (Biopolitics: Power and Resistance, İletişim, 2018), and Kartezyen Prens (The Cartesian Prince, ZoomBook, 2022).