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  • Contributors

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University. His publications include Style and Time. Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern University Press 2006).

Chris Danta is a lecturer in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published articles on Stevenson, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Coetzee. He is currently working on a project that theorizes the role of the post- Darwinian animal in Stevenson, Kafka and Coetzee, tentatively titled "The Scientific Ape."

Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of six books: This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality in Derrida (Columbia, 2007); The Implications of Immanence: Towards a New Concept of Life (Fordham, 2006); Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (Indiana, 2002); Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Indiana, 2003); The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics (Continuum, 2003); and Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida (SUNY, 1992). He is co-editor of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty, and is translating Merleau-Ponty's L'institution, la passivité for Northwestern UP. He is working on books on Deleuze and Guattari, and on early 20th-century continental philosophy.

Simon Lumsden is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His research is primarily concerned with German Idealism, Poststructuralism and the relation between these traditions. He has published widely in these areas, in journals such as Inquiry, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophical Forum, International Philosophical Quarterly, The Owl of Minerva, and Topoi. He is currently completing a manuscript examining the development of self-consciousness in German Idealism and the critique of the subject in Poststructuralism.

Timothy Morton is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard, 2007) and The Ecological Thought (Harvard, forthcoming). He has published books on the poetics and politics of vegetarianism and the spice trade, and is the author of fifty essays, including “Queer Ecology” (PMLA, forthcoming). [End Page 228]

Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge, 2001), and the forthcoming Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge, 2009), as well as many articles and chapters on postmodernism, film, race and theory.

Paul Sheehan is a Lecturer in the English Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism (Cambridge, 2002) and the editor of Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition (Praeger, 2003). His most recent work includes essays on Beckett, De Quincey, and the Matrix trilogy, and he is currently finishing a study of violence and aesthetics in the literature and cinema of the past hundred years.

Dimitris Vardoulakis is lecturer at the University of Western Sydney and Research Associate at Monash University. He has co-edited with Andrew Benjamin a volume of Angelaki journal on "The Politics of Place" (2004) and with Leslie Hill and Brian Nelson a collection of essays titled After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy (2005). He has translated into Greek Alasdair Gray's Poor Things (Athens: Nefeli, 2001).

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. His books include Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003) and the edited collection Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003). He has just finished a book called What Is Posthumanism? which will be appearing in 2009 from the University of Minnesota Press, where he is the founding editor of the series Posthumanities.

Slavoj Zizek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, is Co-Director of the Institute for Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. His latest publications are The Parallax View (MIT Press 2007), and In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso Books 2008). [End Page 229]

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