Lithuanian philosopher, poet and translator. He is a Junior Researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania.
His doctoral dissertation “Biopolitics and Race: Interactions, Critiques, Overcoming” (Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2024) breaks down the intricate interrelationship of biopolitics and race to highlight the workings of racism and racialization in biopolitics. His academic research interests also include but are not limited to postcolonialism, posthumanism, and algorithmic governmentality. Co-authored the monograph Immunity and Contagion: Transformations of Biopolitics in the Time of Pandemic (together with J. D. Mininger, Audronė Žukauskaitė and Denis Petrina, upcoming on Brill in 2025). His recent publications include “Pandemic and Race: Un(fore)seen Circumstances, Same Old Biopolitics of Extraction and Use?” (Athena: Philosophical Studies, 17, 2022, pp. 141–155) and “Algorithmic Governmentality: Implications, Strategies of Resistance and Relationship with Biopower” (Athena: Philosophical Studies, 16, 2021, pp. 124–140).
Authored two poetry collections (both were published in Lithuanian), Maratonas (Slinktys, 2019) and Atlaidžiai šypsosi bedugnė (Bazilisko ambasada, 2023). His debut poetry collection, Maratonas (2019), was shortlisted for the Most Creative Book of the Year Award. He was awarded the Baby Bat Prize (2022) for the most memorable publication of original or translated poetry during the calendar year. His second poetry collection, Atlaidžiai šypsosi bedugnė (2023), was longlisted for the Best Poetry Book of the Year Award. Some of his poems are translated into Polish, Latvian and Estonian.
His most recent translations into Lithuanian include: Audronė Žukauskaitė’s Organism-Oriented Ontology (Hubris, 2025), Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran (Lapas, 2024), David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hubris, 2023), Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic (Bazilisko ambasada, 2023), Caroline Hardaker’s Composite Creatures (Tyto alba, 2022), Alex Christofi’s Dostoevsky In Love: An Intimate Life (Jotema, 2022), The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police (Odilė, 2021), Sue Prideaux’s I am Dynamite! Nietzsche’s Life (Jotema, 2020), Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth: Holocaust as History and Warning (Jotema, 2019). Translated poems by Traci Brimhall, Matthew Dickman, Ilya Kaminsky, Ada Limón, Philip Schultz, Charles Simić, Tracy K. Smith, Ocean Vuong, and other American poets.
E-mail: aistis.zekevicius@gmail.com
Website: https://zekevicius.lt/
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0585-4094
