I'm a French writer and scholar. I've lived in the Netherlands since 2011, and before that in Lebanon, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States, which is a roundabout way of saying I've spent most of my life watching how the same message changes shape as it crosses a border.

I write and teach about propaganda and public diplomacy, the Middle East, cinema, science fiction and superheroes. These look like separate subjects but are the same subject: how societies imagine themselves, who does the imagining, and what it costs everyone else.

I teach at Erasmus University Rotterdam, train diplomats at Clingendael, and direct CHIFT, a research community that uses science fiction to think seriously about the future. I've been interviewed about all of it in nine countries, and I'm always glad to talk to journalists.

auge@eshcc.eur.nl