Contributors
- Contributors
Cesare Casarino is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis. His essays on literature, cinema, and philosophy have appeared in boundary 2, October, Raritan, Strategies, Paragraph, Social Text, and Arizona Quarterly.
Stephen Groening is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society at the University of Minnesota.
Mirko M. Hall is a Ph.D. candidate in German studies at the University of Minnesota. His interests include eighteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, philosophy, and music. His dissertation explores the relationship between critical theory and listening subjectivity.
Rembert Hüser is assistant professor of German at the University of Minnesota. His interests include film studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism. His recent essays have appeared in the collection Terror im System. Der 11. September und die Folgen and the journal Soziale Systeme.
Jürgen Link is professor of German literature (and discourse theory) at Dortmund University, Germany. His research Welds include structural theory of (inter)discourse, collective symbolism, theory of normalism, and literary history. His books include Literaturwissenschaftliche Grundbegriffe, Elementare Literatur und generative Diskurs-analyse, Versuchüber den Normalismus, Hölderlin-Rousseau: Inventive Rückkehr. He is coeditor (with Wulf Wülfing) of Nationale Mythen und Symbole and is coeditor of the journal kultuRRevolution.
Jean-Luc Nancy is professor of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Among his many books are The Inoperative Community, The Sense of the World, and Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. [End Page 201]
Antonio Negri is the author of numerous volumes of philosophy and political theory. His most recent works in English include Insurgencies and Time for Revolution. He has coauthored (with Michael Hardt) Empire as well as Multitude, which will be published in 2004.
Rita Raley is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published articles in The Yale Journal of Criticism, CR: The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, Diaspora, Electronic Book Review, ARIEL, and other journals. She is completing a book entitled Global English and the Academy.
William Rasch is professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation, editor of a collection of essays by Luhmann called Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity, and coeditor (with Cary Wolfe) of Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity. Konflikt als Beruf, a collection of essays on Carl Schmitt and the concept of the political, will appear 2004 in Germany. An expanded version of this collection will appear 2004 in England as Sovereignty and Its Discontents.
Jakki Spicer is a graduate student in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and a book review editor for Cultural Critique. She is researching the nexus of photography, autobiography, and modernity.
Cory Stockwell is a graduate student in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. [End Page 202]
