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Henrik Jker Bjerre is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published on the philosophy of culture and on theories of subjectivity in Kant, Kierkegaard, Lacan, and others. His books include Analyzing the Cultural Unconscious, ed. with Hansen, Hyldgaard, Rosendal, and Rsing (Bloomsbury, 2020); Handl! with Brian Benjamin Hansen (Mindspace, 2017); Analysr! (Mindspace, 2015); Den nyttige idiot [The useful idiot], with Carsten Bagge Laustsen (Samfundslitteratur, 2013); and Kantian Deeds (Continuum, 2010).

Richard Boothby is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He has published on contemporary philosophy, especially with regard to psychoanalysis in the tradition of Freud and Lacan. His publications include Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan (Routledge, 2001) and Is Nothing Sacred? The God Question from Freud to Lacan (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2022).

Nadia Bou Ali is Associate Professor and Director of the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She is currently co-investigator (with Dr. Surti Singh) in the Andrew W. Mellon project Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South. She is the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic (Edinburgh University Press 2020) and co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex and Politics (Bloomsbury 2018), and Extimacy: Encounters between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (forthcoming). She is currently working on two projects: a book entitled Structure and Form: the Afterlives of Marx and Freud in Arabic (forthcoming with Verso) and a book on anxiety and freedom. She has a private psychoanalytic practice in Beirut and she is a member of the Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis in the Bay Area, San Francisco.

Dominik Finkelde is Professor for Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. He has published on contemporary philosophy and German idealism, especially on Hegel, Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, iek, and Badiou. Recent publications are: Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World, edited with Slavoj iek and Christoph Menke (Bloomsbury, 2021); Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic Continental Divide, edited with Paul M. Livingston (De Gruyter, 2020); and Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2017).

Jennifer Friedlander is the Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. She is the author of Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, and Subversion (SUNY, 2008); and Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has published articles in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture; CiNMAS: Journal of Film Studies; Subjectivity; (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies; Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society; Subjectivity; and International Journal of iek Studies, as well as in several edited volumes. She was the 2021 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar at the Freud Museum Vienna.

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He has published on the metaphysics of objects and developed an object-oriented ontology. He is a leading proponent of speculative realism and the series editor of Speculative Realism published by Edinburgh University Press. Recent books are Architecture and Objects (Minnesota, 2022) and The Graham Harman Reader, edited by Jon Cogburn and Niki Young (Zero, 2022).

Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He has published extensively on dialectical materialism and German idealism. Recent publications are: A New German Idealism: Hegel, iek, and Dialectical Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2018) and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone (Northwestern University Press, 2019).

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press 2019); Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Northwestern University Press, 2017); Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016), and other works. He is the editor of the Film Theory in Practice series at Bloomsbury and co-editor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press.

Hilary Neroni is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. Her books and articles engage the nature of ideology as it is represented in film, television, and other media. Recent publications include: Realist Film Theory and Bicycle Thieves (Bloomsbury, 2022); Feminist Film Theory and Cleo from 5 to 7 (Bloomsbury, 2016); The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film (Columbia University Press, 2015); and The Violent Woman. Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema (SUNY, 2005).

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He has published widely on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts, and the history of ideas, with special reference to the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. Recent books include Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2022) and The Law of Desire: On Lacans Kant with Sade (Palgrave, 2017). In 2017, he was the recipient of the Sarton Medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.

Robert B. Pippin is Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has published extensively on Hegel but also on Kant, Nietzsche, Proust, Hannah Arendt as well as on the Hollywood Western. His recent publications are: Hegels Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in Hegels Science of Logic (Chicago University Press, 2018); The Dynamism of Reason in Kant and Hegel, in Kant on Person and Agency, edited by E. Watkins (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Hegel on Logic as Metaphysics, in: The Oxford Handbook to Hegel, edited by D. Moyar (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Duane Rousselle is a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at University College of Dublin and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University. His forthcoming book, currently in review, is titled