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Paul Crosthwaite is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); articles in Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Cultural Politics, The Journal of Cultural Economy, New Formations, Public Culture, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Textual Practice; and, as editor, Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (Routledge, 2011). He is currently completing a book entitled Speculative Investments: Finance, Feeling, and Representation in Contemporary Literature and Culture.

Neal Curtis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Against Autonomy (Ashgate, 2001), War and Social Theory (Palgrave, 2006), and Idiotism (Pluto, 2013). He is currently writing on Sovereignty and Superheroes for Manchester University Press.

Jodi Dean is the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham (UK). She is the author of four monographs, the co-author of two further books, and the coeditor of nine collections. Her most recent major publication is The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Mark Fisher has written widely on music, politics and theory. He teaches at Goldsmiths, London and the University of East London. He is the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative (Zero 2009) and blogs at http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org.

Jeremy Gilbert is the Editor of New Formations. He is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.

Paul Gilroy teaches at Kings College, London.

Mark Hayward is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University, Canada. He researches and writes about television and the philosophy of technology.

Peter Knight teaches American studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Conspiracy Culture (2001) and The Kennedy Assassination (2007) and is currently completing a book titled Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. He is director of the ‘Show Me the Money’ project (www.imageoffinance.com).

Jo Littler is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at City University London. She is the author of Radical Consumption (Open University Press, 2009) and is writing a book on meritocracy.

Stephen Maddison is Head of Cultural Studies & Creative Industries in the School of Arts [End Page 237] and Digital Industries at the University of East London. He is a member of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at UEL (http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/) and is on the editorial board of the Routledge journal Porn Studies. He co-runs the website OpenGender (http://www.opengender.org.uk/). His research addresses questions of sexuality and gender, cultural politics and popular culture. Stephen’s work on pornography, embodiment and cultural politics has appeared in several major collections, including Mainstreaming Sex (2009), Porn.com (2010), Hard to Swallow (2011), and Transgression 2.0 (2012), as well as in the journals New Formations (2004) and Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2009). Stephen is the author of Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture (Macmillan & St Martin’s Press, 2000).

Nicky Marsh works in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction (2007) and Democracy in Contemporary US Women’s Poetry (2007) and editor of Literature and Globalization (with Liam Connell, 2010) and Teaching Modernist Poetry (with Peter Middleton, 2010).

Scott McCracken is on the editorial board of New Formations. He is currently grasping defeat from the jaws of victory.

Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications Goldsmiths University of London. She is author of The Aftermath of Feminism (2009) and is currently completing Be Creative? Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (2014).

Benjamin Noys is Reader in English at the University of Chichester. He is the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Culture of Death (2005), The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (2010), and editor...

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