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Notes on Contributors

BRUNO BOSTEELS is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polmique (La Fabrique, 2009); Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011); The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011); and Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror (Verso, 2012). He is also the author of dozens of articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy and political theory.

VERENA ANDERMATT CONLEY is Long-Term Visiting Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, where she teaches courses on Parisian cityscapes, transformations of space in contemporary culture, the city, technology, existential literature, and cultural theory. Her recent books include: Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Critical Theory (Liverpool University Press, 2012); Littrature, Politique et communisme: Lire Les Lettres franaises, 194272 (New York: Lang, 2005); The War with the Beavers: Learning to be Wild in the North Woods (Minnesota, 2003; 2005); and Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 1997). She is also the editor of Rethinking Technologies (Minnesota, 1993; 1997).

ADRIAN JOHNSTON is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and an Assistant Teaching Analyst at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (2005); ieks Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2008); and Badiou, iek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (2009); all published by Northwestern University Press. He has three books scheduled for publication over the course of the next year: Self and Emotional Life: Merging Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neurobiology (co-authored with Catherine Malabou and forthcoming from Columbia University Press); Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers (Edinburgh University Press); and The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy: Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One (the first installment of a trilogy forthcoming from Northwestern University Press). With Todd McGowan and Slavoj iek, he is a co-editor of the book series Diaeresis at Northwestern University Press.

JAMIL KHADER is Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies Program at Stetson University. He is the author of Cartographies of Transnational Feminisms: Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics (Lexington, 2012) and numerous publications on transnational feminisms, supernatural fiction, and literary theory that have appeared in various national and international literary journals including, among others: Ariel , Feminist Studies , College Literature ; MELUS ; The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts ; The Journal of Postcolonial Writing ; The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies ; The Journal of Homosexuality ; and other collections.

TODD McGOWAN teaches critical theory and film at the University of Vermont. His books include: Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2011); The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan (State University of New York Press, 2007); and with Paul Eisenstein, Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political (Northwestern University Press, 2012).

IAN PARKER was co-founder and is co-director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com). He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practicing psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, the London Society of the New Lacanian School and the College of Psychoanalysts, UK. His books include: Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto, 2007); and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011).