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  • Contributors

Mary Caputi teaches political theory at California State University, Long Beach. Her areas of special interest are feminist theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. She has published most consistently in feminist theory, and has a book that treats the feminist debates about obscenity. She is currently working on a book about nostalgia in American political culture. She can be reached at mcaputi@csulb.edu.

William E. Connolly teaches political theory at Johns Hopkins University where he is Professor and Chair of the political science department. His most recent books are The Ethos of Pluralization and Why I Am Not A Secularist. He is currently working on a study entitled The Texture of Thinking: Neurophysiology, Cinematic Culture and Micropolitics.

Jodi Dean is an associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Solidarity of Strangers (University of California Press, 1996) and Aliens in America (Cornell University of Press, 1998). She is the editor of Feminism and the New Democracy (Sage, 1997) and Cultural Studies and Political Theory (Cornell University Press, forthcoming in 2000). She is working on a book on the ideology of the information age, Publicity’s Secret (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).

Thomas Dumm teaches at Amherst College and co-edits Theory&Event with William Chaloupka. He can be reached at tldumm@amherst.edu.

Keith Goshorn is Professeur Associe at Universite Stendhal, Grenoble III, France, where he teaches courses on American political and cultural history and media studies. He is currently working on a book The Politics of Deep Suspicion: Origins and Exploitations, and has previously written on subjects ranging from film studies to critical impasses in the work of Jean Baudrillard. He can be reached at keith.goshorn@u-grenoble3.fr

Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program and Romance Studies Department at Duke University. He is author of Gilles Deleuze (1993) and co-author with Antonio Negri of Labor of Dionysus (1994) and Empire (2000). He is co-editor with Paolo Virno of Radical Thought in Italy (1996) and with Kathi Weeks of The Jameson Reader (2000). He is currently working on a book about Pier Paolo Pasolini. He can be reached at hardt@duke.edu.

Jeffrey T. Nealon teaches in the English Department at Penn State University. He is author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (1993) and Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (1998). He can be reached at jxn8@psu.edu.

Saul Newman received his Doctorate in Political Science from the University of New South Wales in 1998, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University. His research interests are in the area of contemporary political philosophy, in particular theories of power, identity, ideology, psychoanalysis, and the possibilities of radical political theory and action today. He can be reached at snewman@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au.

Alexander Reid is an assistant professor of Humanities and Writing in Penn State’s Capital College. He can be reached at asr7@psu.edu

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