Contributors
- Contributors
Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat (Morocco). He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and participated in 1969 in founding the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes) where, as a colleague of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Rancière, Jacques Poulain and others, he taught for thirty years. Today, Alain Badiou is director of the department of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, thus finishing where he began. Alain Badiou is a philosopher, but also a novelist and a playwright. He has, moreover, never ceased being a political militant. Of his considerable philosophic oeuvre, Being and Event (Le Seuil 1988) — his most ambitious attempt to date — and the monographs such as those on Saint-Paul (P.U.F 1998) and Deleuze (Minnesota University Press 1999) and the recent trilogy Court Traité d’ontologie transitoire, Petit Manuel d’inesthétique, Abrégé de métapolitique (all published by Seuil 1998) distinguish themselves.
Bradley Bryan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is writing a dissertation on the bioethics as a discourse of biotechnology. He lives and works in Victoria, Canada, and can be reached at bwbryan@uclink.berkeley.edu .
William Chaloupka teaches political science at Colorado State University. His most recent book was Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America , published by the University of Minnesota Press. He can be reached at williamc@colostate.edu .
Samuel A. Chambers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he teaches political theory. His book Untimely Politics will be published by Edinburgh University Press in fall 2003. He can be reached at sam@fronesis.com .
Jodi Dean teaches political theory at Hobart and William Smith Colleges where she chairs the Department of Political Science. A Theory and Event board member, her books include Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2002); Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Cornell University Press, 1998; and the edited volume Cultural Studies and Political Theory (Cornell University Press, 2000). With Paul A. Passavant, she is currently editing a collection of critical essays on Empire, to be published by Routledge. She can be reached at jdean3425@yahoo.com .
David Owen is Reader in Political Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Maturity and Modernity (1994), Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995); editor or co-editor of Sociology after Postmodernism (1997), Foucault contra Habermas (1999), Inhuman Reflections (2001) and author of numerous articles in social and political philosophy. He is currently writing a book on genealogy and co-writing a book on Nietzsche and modern moral philosophy. He can be reached at dowen@socsci.soton.ac.uk .
Paul Patton teaches philosophy at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He co-edited Between Deleuze and Derrida , Continuum , forthcoming 2003. He can be reached at prp@unsw.edu.au .
Rebecca L. Stein is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. In the fall of 2003, Stein will join the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her work on Israeli political culture has appeared recently in Public Culture, Social Text, and Middle East Report. She is the author of two forthcoming volumes: National Itineraries: Tourism, Nation-Making, and Geographies of “Peace” in Contemporary Israel and (with co-editor Ted Swedenburg) Palestine/Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture. She can be reached at >rlstein@umn.edu.
