# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvere-lotringer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:46:49.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvere-lotringer"
name: "Sylvère Lotringer"
slug: "sylvere-lotringer"
description: "Sylvère Lotringer was a French literary critic and cultural theorist. Initially based in New York City, he later lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal Semiotext(e) and for his interpretations of theory in a 21st-century context. He is regarded as an influential interpreter of Jean Baudrillard's theories, among others."
tagline: "French literary critic (1938–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer_in_2008_by_Iris_Klein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-10-15"
deathDate: "2021-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.381825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "سيلفير لوترينجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringer"
    title: "Sylvère Lotringer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174359"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump