Biographies
- Biographies
James Der Derian is a research professor with a focus on global security. His most recent works include Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network, whose second edition was released by Routledge in 2009, and Critical Practices in International Theory (Routledge, 2009). He has produced two film documentaries with Udris Film, Virtual Y2K and After 9/11. James may be reached at James_Der_Derian@brown.edu
Brad Evans is lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published numerous articles using the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari to critically evaluate the Liberal problematic of security, the modern propensity for violence, along with the suffocation of political difference. He is currently working on two co-edited volumes: Fascism in Deleuze & Guattari: Securitisation, War & Aesthetics which due to be completed in 2011; and Post-Intervention Societies for the Journal of Intervention and State-Building which will be published in 2010. He is also working on a monograph titled Terror & the Divine Economy which is due to be completed in 2011. Brad may be reached at b.evans@leeds.ac.uk
Laura Guillaume’s research is focused on understanding war using resources from Deleuze and Guattari. She has focused particularly on the relationship between war and the body, and is interested in the ethics of war from a wide variety of analytical perspectives. Laura has a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University. She is the co-author (with Ian Buchannan) of ‘The Spectacle of War: Security, Legitimacy and Profit Post 9/11’ in Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin (eds) Deleuze and Law—Forensic Futures (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and co-editor (with Joe Hughes) of Deleuze and the Body (forthcoming 2010 with Edinburgh University Press). Laura may be reached at lauraguillaume@googlemail.com
Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 1993). He has co-authored with Antonio Negri: Labor of Dionysus: A Critique State-Form (University of Minnesota Press, 1994); Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000); Multitude (Penguin Press, 2004); and, Commonwealth (Harvard University Press, 2009). Michael is editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly. Michael may be reached at hardt@duke.edu
Beth Hinderliter is assistant professor of contemporary art history at Buffalo State College. She is co-editor of Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics (Duke University Press, 2009). She received a Ph.D. in modern art history from Columbia University and a MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art as well as feminist theory and feminist art strategies. She is currently working problems of violence in contemporary art and the ways in which aesthetic practices might be useful in ending cycles of violence and politics-as-usual.
Gregg Lambert is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the Humanities Centre, Syracuse University, New York. He has published extensively on the works of Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, including Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum Books, 2007), and The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum Books, 2002). Gregg may be reached at glambert@syr.edu
Nicola Masciandaro is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York and a specialist in medieval literature. He is the author of The Voice of the Hammer (Notre Dame, 2006) and essays on a variety of topics (beheading, the hand, commentary, mysticism, black metal, individuation, labor, Aesop, deixis, and Dante). He is also founding editor of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. Current projects include books on spontaneity and mystical sorrow, as well as a co-edited volume entitled Speculative Medievalisms. For more information, see The Whim http://thewhim.blogspot.com
Brian Massumi specializes in the philosophy of experience, art and media theory, and political philosophy. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002), A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992), and First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body...
