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  • Contributors

Briankle G. Chang is associate professor in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange (1996) and coeditor of Philosophy of Communication (2012). His most recent publication is the essay "Of Digits and Things" (2016) in a special issue of Cultural Studies on German media theory that he coedited. He has translated the works of Jacques Derrida into Chinese and has translated writings of Paolo Virno and Anne Fagot-Largeault from French into English.

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is professor of media studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Her book Der frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen. Jüdische Werte, Kritische Philosophie, vergängliche Erfahrung (2000) was awarded the Humboldt University prize for best dissertation. Her second book, titled Praktiken der Ilusion. Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Benjamin bis Donna J. Haraway, was published in 2007. English translations of her writings include Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine (2005). Her recent book is Queeres Post-Cinema (2017). [End Page 193]

Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth (2003) and The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (2011).

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination (1973 and 1996), Marxism and Totality (1984), Adorno (1984), Permanent Exiles (1985), Fin-de-Siècle Socialism (1989), Force Fields (1993), Downcast Eyes (1993), Cultural Semantics (1998), Refractions of Violence (2003), Songs of Experience (2004), The Virtues of Mendacity (2010), Essays from the Edge (2011), Kracauer l'exilé (2014), and Reason after Its Eclipse (2016).

Matthew Lau is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His writings have appeared in Comparative Literature, the Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Lana Turner, and on the websites Lacan.com and Jacobinmag.com. He is working on a book about classical music in modernist cinema under contract for SUNY Press's Horizons of Cinema series.

Duy Lap Nguyen is assistant professor of world cultures and literatures at the University of Houston. His work has appeared, most recently, in Constellations (2015), Thesis Eleven (2015), differences (2014), and Historical Materialism (2010). Nguyen's current research explores works by the Vietnamese philosopher Tran Duc Thao and develops a reading of Thao's materialist critique of phenomenology. A second project, titled "The Postcolonial Present: Redemption and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Culture and History," examines Vietnamese cinema, literature, and mass culture from the Vietnam War era.

Richard A. Rand is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Alabama. He has published a number of articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century British, American, and French literature. He has also published translations in English of works by Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. He currently serves on the editorial board of the French journal Po&sie. [End Page 194]

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