Contributors
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Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches history and South Asian studies at the University of Chicago.
Yves Citton teaches literature and media archaeology at Grenoble Alpes University in France and coedits the journal Multitudes. Recent publications include Zazirocratie (2011); Gestes d’humanités (2012); Renverser l’insoutenable (2012); and Pour une écologie de l’attention (2014), to be published in English as The Ecology of Attention in 2016.
Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011); A Philosophy of Sport (2011); Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations (2014); Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination (2014); and Living By Numbers: In Defense of Quantity (2016).
Francis Halsall is director (with Declan Long) of the Masters Program, “Art in the Contemporary World,” at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and a research fellow in the Department of Art History and Image Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa. He is completing several projects under the general theme of systems aesthetics.
Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (on leave from the American University in Cairo). His most recent books are Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (2016); Dante’s Broken Hammer: The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Metaphysics of Love (forthcoming 2016); and, with Manuel DeLanda, The Rise of Realism (forthcoming 2017).
Antoine Hennion is a professor at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, École des Mines, Paris. He researches the sociology of music and diverse forms of attachment, from taste and amateurs’ practices to issues of care, aging, and disability. His most recent books are Le Vin et l’environnement, with Geneviève Teil et al. (2011), and The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation (2015).
Bruno Latour is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and has published extensively in the domain of science studies and more generally on the anthropology of modernism. His books include We Have Never Been Modern (1991); Iconoclash (2002); Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2004); Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005); Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (2007); On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (2010); and An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013). [End Page 477]
Patrice Maniglier is associate professor at the Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense University. He writes on contemporary French philosophy, in light of the history of the social sciences, especially structuralism and poststructuralism. He is the author of La Vie énigmatique des signes: Saussure et la naissance du structuralisme (2006) and Foucault va au cinéma (2011).
Stephen Muecke is Professor of Ethnography in the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. A recent book is The Mother’s Day Protest and Other Fictocritical Essays (2016).
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English at Duke University. Her books include Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988); Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (1997); Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (2005); and Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (2010).
Nigel Thrift is the Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, based in New York and Beijing. Until recently, he was President of the University of Warwick, and prior to that Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. His main research interests are in cities, nonrepresentational theory, the history of time, and the Anthropocene. He has a book forthcoming with Ash Amin called Seeing Like a City.
Michael Witmore is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is author of Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England (2001), which received the Perkins Prize for studies in narrative; Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007); and Shakespearean Metaphysics (2008). He posts digital work on the blog winedarksea.org, which he maintains with his collaborator Jonathan Hope. [End Page 478]
