Biographies
- Biographies
William Bogard is Deburgh Chair of Social Sciences at Whitman College and the author of The Simulation of Surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1996). His writings on digital media theorize its potentials for embodied control and resistance. His recent work explores the relation of information and affect within the context of control societies, and the machinic integration of electronic and political resistance in circuits of networked capital. He is currently at work on a book about digital interface control and its relation to rhythmic and gestural expression. William can be reached at bogard@whitman.edu
Gent Carrabregu is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at Northwestern University. His primary areas of research are German Idealism, contemporary democratic theory, Hannah Arendt’s political theory, and Kantian moral and political philosophy (especially Habermas and Rawls). His dissertation explores the accounts of practical judgment and political community in the work of Hegel, Arendt, and Habermas, arguing for a reconsideration of their political-theoretical contributions to democratic theory. Gent can be reached at gcarrabregu@gmail.com
Sonali Chakravarti is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University. Her interests include transitional justice, theories of emotions, and the jury system. Her work has appeared in Constellations and Law, Culture and the Humanities. Her book “Sing the Rage: Listening to Anger after Mass Violence” is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press (2014). She can be reached at schakravarti@wesleyan.edu
Jae-Yin Kim is a Junior Fellow at the Transdisciplinary Program Independent Research Group, Korea Institute for Advanced Study. He also teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University (Republic of Korea), where he completed his PhD thesis on "Non-Humanist Ontology in Deleuze". He has written several articles in 19th/20th century European philosophy and politics, and is the translator into Korean of numerous philosophical books, including Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari's two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Anti-Oedipus & A Thousand Plateaus) and Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism. Jae Yin Kim can be reached at armdown.net@gmail.com
Donald V. Kingsbury is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on contemporary Latin American and North Atlantic Political Thought, the study of radical social movements, and the intersections of violence, ethics, and political economy. His work can be found in Theory & Event, Historical Materialism, and New Political Science. Donald can be reached at donald.kingsbury@gmail.com
Lili Lai teaches anthropology at the Institute of Medical Humanities of Peking University, China. She is author of “A Cultural Plaza in Shang Village: Why Culture? Whose Plaza?” published in Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2012; and "Everyday Hygiene in Rural Henan", forthcoming in a special issue of Positions: Asia Critique, which she is guest editing, titled "The Local Intimacies of China’s Rural-Urban Divide”, scheduled for publication as Volume 22, Issue 3, 2014. She is also coauthoring two articles with Judith Farquhar on their ongoing research of "Salvaging and Sorting Out Minority Nationality Medicines in Contemporary China", currently under review by East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An International Journal, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. Lili Lai can be reached at lililai@pku.edu.cn
Craig Lundy is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong. He is the author of History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor with Daniela Voss of At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). His research explores the intersections of historical, political and social theory, and in particular the role that history plays in processes of transformation. Craig can be reached at craiglundy@gmail.com
Philippe Mengue, currently retired, formerly taught philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence and at the Collège international de Philosophy (2004-2012) in Paris. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze ou le système du multiple (Paris: Kimé, 1994); Deleuze et la question de la démocratie (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003); Utopies et devenirs deleuziens (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009); Proust-Joyce, Deleuze-Lacan, Lectures croisées (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010); Comprendre...
