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Jean-Philippe Deranty

Jean-Philippe Deranty

Yves Citton

Giuseppina Mecchia

Samuel A. Chambers

Todd May

Bruno Bosteels

Davide Panagia

Philip Watts

Jean-Philippe Deranty

Alison Ross

Toni Ross

Hassan Melehy

Jean-Philippe Deranty

Bruno Bosteels is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, New York. He is the author most recently of Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polmique (2009). Two other books are forthcoming: Badiou and Politics and Marx and Freud in Latin America. He has published extensively on Latin American literature and politics, and on European philosophy and political theory. He is currently preparing After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy and a short book, La Rvolution de la honte, on the twentieth-century uses of Marxs correspondence with Arnold Ruge. He also currently serves as general editor of the journal diacritics.

Samuel A. Chambers is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, and co- editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory. He has recently published The Queer Politics of Television (2009). His previous publications include the monographs Untimely Politics (2003) and Judith Butler and Political Theory (with Terrell Carver, 2008).

Yves Citton is Professor of French Literature at the University Grenoble-3 specializing in eighteenth-century literature, and a member of the CNRS research unit LIRE. His recent publications include: Mythocratie: Storytelling et imaginaire de gauche (2010), Lire, interprter, actualiser: Pourquoi les tudes littraires? (2007), LEnvers de la libert: Linventiondun imaginaire spinoziste dans la France des Lumires (2006) and, with Frdric Lordon, Spinoza et les sciences sociales: De la puissance de lamultitude lconomie des affects (2008).

Jean-Philippe Deranty is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and co-editor of Critical Horizons. His recent publications include Beyond Communication: A Critical Study of Axel Honneths Social Philosophy (2009).

Todd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. He is the author of ten books on continental philosophy, including most recently Contemporary Movements and The Political Thought of Jacques Rancire: Creating Equality. He has also been active for over two decades in egalitarian political movements.

Giuseppina Mecchia is Associate Professor of French and Italian and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Recently, she has published essays on Marcel Proust, the Italian writing collective Wu-Ming, the Austrian film director Michael Haneke and the concept of biopolitics in the works of Antonin Artaud, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault.

Hassan Melehy is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. A specialist in early modern literature and philosophy, he is the author of Writing Cogito (1997) and The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England (2010). He is the translator of Jacques Rancires The Names of History (1994).

Davide Panagia is a political and cultural theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University (Canada) and is co-editor of the journal Theory & Event. His writings focus on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, popular culture and ethics, and include two books: The Poetics of Political Thinking (2006) and The Political Life of Sensation (2009).

Alison Ross is Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (2007).

Toni Ross is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History and Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her most recent publications have appeared in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Arts, the Journal of Visual Arts Practice, as well as in the anthology Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics (2009).

Philip Watts is Chair of the Department of French at Columbia University, New York, and specializes in the field of twentieth-century European literature and film. He is co-editor of the recent collection of essays Jacques Rancire: History, Politics, Aesthetics (2009).