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Key Concepts

Key Concepts

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A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens

Oliver Feltham

Oliver Feltham

Justin Clemens

Bruno Besana

Alex Ling

Ray Brassier

Sigi Jttkandt

Elie During

Nina Power and Alberto Toscano

A. J. Bartlett

Jon Roffe

Peter Hallward

Bruno Bosteels

Mark Hewson

A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens

John Mullarkey

Z. L. Fraser

A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens

A. J. Bartlett teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. He co-edited The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006) and is the author of Plato, Badiou: An Education by Truths (forthcoming). He is currently extending the latter enquiry to the thought of Saint Paul, Marx and Lacan in order to establish the non-state foundations of contemporary state pedagogy.

Bruno Besana is fellow researcher at the ICI-Kulturlabor, Berlin, where he is in charge, together with Ozren Pupovac, of the Versus Laboratory Project. He has published (in French, English, Italian, German and Slovenian) several articles on the relation between philosophy and its aesthetic and political conditions, especially via the thought of Jacques Rancire, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. Together with Oliver Feltham he has edited the volume Ecrits autour de la pense dAlain Badiou (2007). He has also translated into Italian Jacques Rancires La fable cinmatographique and other philosophical texts.

Bruno Bosteels is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. 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.

Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Nihil Unbound (2008) and is the translator of Badious Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and, with Alberto Toscano, he has edited s Theoretical Writings (2004).

Justin Clemens is the author of several books of poetry and fiction, including Villain (2009), The Mundiad (2004) and, with Helen Johnson, Black River (2007). He is also co-editor of The Jacqueline Rose Reader (2011) with Ben Naparstek, The Work of Giorgio Agamben (2008) with Nicholas Heron and Alexander Murray, and The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006) with Paul Ashton and A. J. Bartlett. He teaches at the University of Melbourne.

Elie During is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. He studied at the cole Normale Suprieure (ENS Paris) and Princeton University. A member of the CIEPFC (Centre International dude de la Philosophie Franise Contemporaine, ENS), he also teaches theory at the cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. With Q. Meillassoux, P. Maniglier and D. Rabouin, he is series editor of Mtaphysiques at the Presses Universitaires de France. His current research focuses on the interplay between metaphysics, art and science, with special interest in the contemporary constructions of spacetime. He is the author of Matrix, machine philosophique, with A. Badiou et al. (2003). More recently, he has produced a critical edition of Henri Bergsons Dure et Simultanit (2009) and a study of the BergsonEinstein debate: Bergson et Einstein: la querelle de la relativit (forthcoming). His publications on issues of aesthetics include Faux Raccords: la coexistence des images (2010), and a co-edited book, In actu: de lexprimental dans lart (with L. Jeanpierre, C. Kihm and D. Zabunyan, 2009). He has written several articles on Alain Badious philosophy, among them How Much Truth Can Art Bear? On Badious Inaesthetics (2005) and Alain Badiou (2009).

Oliver Feltham is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris, where he coordinates the Philosophy Program. His translation of Alain Badious Being and Event appeared in 2006. He has edited and contributed to two anthologies of essays on Badious work, Ecrits autour de la pense dAlain Badiou