The Force of the Virtual: Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy

Contributors

· 379 · Contributors MANOLA ANTONIOLI teaches at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, where she teaches courses on Deleuze, Guattari, and Blanchot. Her books include Géophilosophie de Deleuze et Guattari, Deleuze et l’histoire de la philosophie , and L’Écriture de Maurice Blanchot. CLARK BAILEY has degrees in physics and philosophy and studied neuroscience at Rockefeller University. He now works for a hedge fund. ROSI BRAIDOTTI is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in a Globalised World at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages, and her books include Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics; Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming; and Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. MANUEL DELANDA is the author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines; A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History; Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy; A New Philosophy of Society; and Philosophy, Emergence, and Simulation. He teaches philosophy seminars in the architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania. ADEN EVENS is assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College, where he teaches new media studies, poststructuralist theory, and postmodern literature . He is author of Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience (Minnesota, 2005). GREGORY FLAXMAN is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. The editor of The Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema (Minnesota, 2000), he is also the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy: Powers of the False, Volume I (forthcoming from Minnesota). Currently, he is writing a monograph on Chinatown and the representation of history. PETER GAFFNEY is visiting assistant professor at Haverford College and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he teaches film studies, philosophy, and literature. He is working on a book with Thomas Kelso that confronts the problematic 380 CONTRIBUTORS relationshipbetweenartisticproductionandontologicalrealism.Heiscodirector of the Red Light Cabaret and Musical Theater Company in Philadelphia. THOMAS KELSO is an independent scholar based in Turkey. His fields of specialization are Italian and French literature, film studies, rhetoric, and translation. He is author of Italian Dreams: Neorealism and Deleuze and has published several translations from Italian, including Who Loves You Like This by Edith Bruck and “Checchina’s Virtue” by Matilde Serao. JULIE-FRANÇOISE KRUIDENIER is visiting assistant professor in the French Department at Hamilton College. ANDREW MURPHIE is at the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is editor of the Fibreculture Journal and coauthor of Culture and Technology. He works on media philosophy and sociology, the social impact of models and practices of mind, electronic arts and design, open-access publishing, cultural theory, and the digital humanities. PATRICIA PISTERS is professor of film studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on film-philosophical questions on the nature of perception, the ontology of the image, politics of contemporary screen culture, and the idea of the “brain as screen” in connection to neuroscience. Her books include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory; Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values; and Mind the Screen. ARKADY PLOTNITSKY is professor of English, director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program, and codirector of the Philosophy and Literature Program at Purdue University. He has published several books on British and European Romanticism, modernism, continental philosophy, philosophy of physics and mathematics, and the relationships among literature, philosophy , mathematics, and science. His most recent books are Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking; Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy; and a coedited collection of essays, Idealism without Absolute: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. STEVEN SHAVIRO is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. His books include The Cinematic Body (Minnesota, 1993); Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction about Postmodernism; Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society (Minnesota, 2003); and Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics. He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory (http://www .shaviro.com/Blog). CONTRIBUTORS 381 ARNAUD VILLANI teaches at the Première Supérieure au Lycée Masséna de Nice. In addition to numerous articles, poems, and translations of poems, he has published three books, Précis de philosophie nue; La guêpe et l’orchidée: Essai sur Gilles Deleuze, Kafka: L’ouverture de l’existant, Petites méditations métaphysiques sur la...