Contributors
- Contributors
Karyn Ball is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She edited a special issue of Cultural Critique (2000) on "Trauma and Its Cultural Aftereffects," an issue of Parallax on "Visceral Reason" (2005) and a volume of essays entitled Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect in and beyond Psychoanalysis (forthcoming). Her articles on critical theory, cultural studies, and the Holocaust have appeared in Cultural Critique, Research in Political Economy, Women in German Yearbook, differences, and English Studies in Canada. Her current project reXects on Wgurations of melancholy in recent cultural theory.
Mark Driscoll is assistant professor of Japanese and international studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of a monograph on the Japanese imperial ideologue Yuasa Katsuei and several articles on postcolonial politics and theory. He is currently in Tokyo finishing a study called "Absolute Erotic,Absolute Grotesque: Bio-, Neuro-, and Necro-political Subsumptions of Desire in Japanese Imperialism, 1895-1945."
Marieke de Goede is lecturer in international relations at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and editor of International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics. She is working on a book about the war on terrorist finance.
Ole Gram is in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. His recent articles include "Catastrophe and the 'Scientific Age': Peter Weiss's Redeeming Critique of Brecht" in Communications from the International Brecht Society (2006) and "Left Hook: Brecht, Boxing, and Committed Art" in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (2001). He is currently revising a manuscript that investigates the vicissitudes of the historical avant-garde in contemporary artistic practices.
A. Kiarina Kordela is associate professor at Macalester College. Her publications include $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (2007) and articles for [End Page 220] MLS, Parallax, Political Theory, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as for the collections Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship, The Dreams of Interpretation: AHundred Years down the Royal Road (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), European Film Theory, and Spinoza Now.
Paul Langley studied international political economy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He is senior lecturer in international politics at Northumbria University and is author of World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy. He is completing a manuscript entitled The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America.
Maureen Sioh is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at De Paul University. Her recent articles include "Against the Limits of Our History" in Gender, Place, and Culture (2006) and "An Ecology of Postcoloniality: Disciplining Nature and Society in Malaya, 1948- 1957" in the Journal of Historical Geography (2004). She is working on a book about colonial modernity and the economy of humiliation.
Susanne Soederberg is a Canada Research Chair and associate professor in international development studies at Queen's University. She is author of The Politics of the International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberalism in the Global South and Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class, and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations. She is completing a book manuscript entitled, Globalizing American Corporate Power: The Politics of Governance, Activism, Fetishism, and Social Accountability.
Mark Woytiuk has recently completed an MA at the University of Alberta. His interests lie in the industrial and sociological repercussions of cinema and Marxist/post-Marxist analyses of built space. [End Page 221]
