Biographies
- Biographies
Franco "Bifo" Berardi is an Italian autonomist philosopher and media activist. His recent books include Soul at Work (Semiotext(e) 2009), Precarious Rhapsody (AK Press 2009), and After the Future (AK Press 2011). Franco can be reached at franberardi@gmail.com
Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches political theory. Her most recent book is Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone 2010). Her political work is currently focused on preserving public higher education in the United States, in particular the University of California. Wendy can be reached at wlbrown@berkeley.edu
John Buell is a columnist for the Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). He can be reached at jbuell@acadia.net
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. His recent books include Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (2008); and A World of Becoming (2011). In Capitalism and Christianity, American Style, he argued that the "evangelical-capitalist resonance machine" is carrying us to a probable crisis, and addressed a militant politics to respond to it. He is currently working on a book entitled The Fragility of Things, the first chapter of which will appear in Theory & Event in early 2012, under the title "Steps toward an Ecology of Late Capitalism." William can be reached at pluma@jhu.edu
Jodi Dean is co-editor of Theory & Event. Her most recent books are Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke 2009) and Blog Theory (Polity 2010). Her book, The Communist Horizon, will be published by Verso in 2012. Jodi can be reached at jdean@hws.edu
Richard Grusin is Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His latest book is Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 (Palgrave 2010), argues that in an era of heightened securitization, socially networked US and global media work to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear. Richard can be reached at grusin@uwm.edu
John Protevi is Phyllis M Taylor Professor of French Studies at Louisiana State University. His latest book, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Minnesota 2009), reflects his recent research on Deleuze, dynamical systems theory, and the cognitive and biological sciences. Recent articles in this field have appeared in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and Journal of Consciousness Studies. John's website is www.protevi.com/john
McKenzie Wark is the author of The Beach beneath the Street (Verso 2011), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007), A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard 2004) and various other things. He is Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. McKenzie can be reached at warkk@newschool.edu
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher. His recent books include First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Verso 2009), In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso 2009), and Living in the End Times (Verso 2011). Slavoj can be reached at szizek@yahoo.com
