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Pierpaolo Antonello is currently a Lecturer in the Italian Department at Cambridge University. He is completing his Ph.D. dissertation at Stanford University. His research interest is the relation between literature, technology and science in 20th-century Italian novels. With Joy Conlon, João Cezar de Castro Rocha and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, he organized the International Conference “Movements of the Avant-Garde” held at Stanford in 1997. With Robert Harrison, he is currently editing a special issue of Configurations on Michel Serres.
Steven Best is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published widely on philosophy, cultural criticism, mass media, social theory, and postmodern theory. His books, all published by Guilford Press, New York, include Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with D. Kellner); The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, and Habermas; The Postmodern Turn: Paradigm Shifts in Art, Theory, and Science (with D. Kellner); The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies (with D. Kellner).
Allyson Field is a graduate student in the Film Program at the University of Amsterdam, where she is working on the Cobra archives. She obtained her BA at Stanford University in 1998.
Stephen Hastings-King is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation, “Fordism and the Marxist revolutionary project,” on the history of Socialisme ou Barbarie. He is currently working on Fourth Group psychoanalytic theory.
Anselm Jappe was born in Bonn in 1962 and has been living in Rome since 1983. He published Guy Debord (Pescara, 1993) which has now appeared in six languages including English (University of California Press, 1999). He also published Schade um Italien! (Frankfurt 1997), a compendium of criticism of Italy by Italian authors of the last 200 years. He is a contributor to journals in several countries, notably to Krisis in Germany. At present he is preparing a work on the fetishism of commodities.
Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of many books and articles on social theory, politics, history and culture, including Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity (Polity Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Post-Modernism and Beyond (Polity Press and Stanford University Press, 1989); Television and the Crisis of Democracy (Westview Press, 1990); The Persian Gulf TV War (Westview Press, 1992); Media Culture. Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern. Routledge: 1995. He is also the general editor of the six volumes on unpublished and uncollected works of Herbert Marcuse (Herbert Marcuse, Technology, War, and Fascism) published by Routledge starting in 1997. [End Page 178]
Roberto Ohrt was born in Santiago, Chile and grew up in Germany. He published Phantom Avantgarde (Hamburg, 1990), a history of the foundation of the Situationist International and its general conflict with art (English translation forthcoming from Lucas and Sternberg, New York). He writes for several magazines, including Frieze and Texte zur Kunst. He was the curator of the “Martin Kippenberger” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He co-edits the magazine Die Beute, Berlin, and is the founder of the Akademie Isotrop, Hamburg.
Odile Passot is an “agrégée de lettres modernes” (1989) and earned her Ph.D. in French literature at the University of Paris X (Nanterre) in 1993. She teaches contemporary French literature at the Université Stendhal (Grenoble III). She is interested in the history of the avant-garde from a feminist perspective. She is currently completing a volume on the conception of love and the place of women in the Situationist International movement.
Mario Perniola is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome II, Tor Vergata, where he is the director of the Department for Philosophical Research. His most recent works include Dopo Heidegger (Milan, 1982), La società dei simulacri (Bologna, 1983), Presa diretta. Estetica e politica (Venezia, 1986), Enigmi. Il momento egizio nella società e nell’arte (Genoa, 1990), Del sentire (Turin, 1991), Il sex-appeal dell’inorganico (Turin, 1994), L’estetica del Novecento (Bologna, 1997).
Olga Vasile is a Ph.D. candidate in the French...
