Cédric Weidmann (born 29 July 1991) is a Swiss writer, philologist and literary promoter.
Das Kalkül der Verklärung von Sprache und Kapital), in which, based on the material of science fiction works and political-economic theories, including the Marxist theory of surplus value, he developed a typology of nostalgia as a sociocultural phenomenon that devalues the past in favor of the future ("productive" type) or the future in favor of the past ("extractive" type).
[4] In the same year, he became the head of the Aargauer Literaturhaus in Lenzburg, an institution in whose work he had been actively involved since 2009.
[1][2][5] Weidmann has published short stories, articles, essays on science fiction, futurology, video games, collective literary practices, and the relationship between literature and economics in various German-language media, including delirium, entwürfe [de], Das Magazin [de], Das Narr [de] (Switzerland), The Gap (Austria), Süddeutsche Zeitung, litradio (Germany),[6] the thematic anthology Biocatalyst.
[2] Weidmann is the silver medallist of the Swiss Philosophy Olympiad [de] (2010),[3][7] winner of the national literary competition Permanent Place (German: Stammplatz, 2011)[3] and the Wartholz Literary Prize [de] (Austria, 2017).