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Manisha Basu is a doctoral candidate in the Cultural and Critical Studies program of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently working on a dissertation tentatively entitled, Fathers of a Still-born Past: Hindu Empire and Temporalities of the Trikaal. She can be reached at mab79@pitt.edu.

Richard Beardsworth is professor of modern philosophy at the American University of Paris, Paris. He has written at length on recent continental thought and is presently preparing a manuscript on Critical Philosophy and World Politics. He can be reached at beardsworth@aup.fr

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is currently completing two volumes of essays on reading for electronic publication.

Martin Coward is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, teaching courses on security, contemporary conflict and ethnic nationalism. His research focuses on political violence, the constitution of spatiality/territoriality and associated questions of community. At present he is finalising a manuscript entitled Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction which comprises a book-length treatment of the manner in which systematic destruction of the built environment could be said to be a disavowal of the heterogeneity of community. He is also engaged on a second project examining the manner in which ‘Empire’ could be said to constitute an appropriate motif for post-globalisation theory. He can be contacted at m.p.coward@sussex.ac.uk.

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research and Visiting Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York. He is author of many books and his new book, *Things Merely Are* will be published by Routledge in April 2005.

Penelope Deutscher is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (1997), and Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (2002), and co-editor (with Kelly Oliver) of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (1999) and (with Françoise Collin) of Repenser le politique: l’apport du féminisme (2005).

Stuart Elden is a lecturer in political geography at the University of Durham. He is the author of Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (2001), Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible (2004) and Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation (forthcoming). He is currently working on issues around calculation and territory. He can be reached at stuart.elden@durham.ac.uk

Joanne Faulkner is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Program at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her thesis addresses the relation of affect between the reader and text, focussing primarily upon interpretations of Nietzsche. She has published articles in Contretemps, Minerva, and forthcoming in Diacritics. She can be reached at j.faulkner@latrobe.edu.au

Marc Goldschmit is a teacher of philosophy (agrégé). He founded, in 1997, the “Month of European Philosophy”(Cité-philo) in the town of Lille, where he was Mayor until 2004. His book, entitled Jacques Derrida, un Introduction was published in October 2003, by Agora-Pocket-Press. He’s currently working on his PhD Dissertation and a second book entitled: Political Philosophies of Art in the Age of Fascism, the Language Revolution: Heidegger, Benjamin, Wittgenstein. He can be reached at marc.g@club-internet.fr

Samir Haddad is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University. His dissertation focuses on the relationship between inheritance and democracy in the writings of Arendt and Derrida. He can be reached at samir-haddad@northwestern.edu

Sankaran Krishna is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in Honolulu. He works in the areas of South Asian studies and critical international relations theory. He can be reached at krishna@hawaii.edu .

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (Humanities Press, 1995) and Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Stanford University Press, 2003). He is the co-editor of Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and the...

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