Notes on Contributors

Eric Aldieri is a graduate student in Philosophy at DePaul University. He works primarily on poststructuralist thought and feminist theory, focusing on convalescence and relational ontology.

Vicki Kirby is Professor of Sociology at The University of New South Wales, Sydney. The motivating question behind her research is the puzzle of the nature/culture, body/mind, body/technology division, because so many political and ethical decisions are configured in terms of this opposition. She recently edited a collection of essays on new materialism, titled What if Culture was Nature All Along? (2018, Edinburgh). She is the author of Quantum Anthropologies: life at large (Duke, 2011), Judith Butler: Live Theory (Continuum, 2006), and Telling Flesh: the substance of the corporeal (Routledge, 1996).

David Maruzzella is a PhD student in philosophy at DePaul University. His research focuses on the work of Louis Althusser, French Historical Epistemology, and contemporary readings of Spinoza. His translations and articles have appeared in Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the Oxford Literary Review. A co-translated and edited volume of selected essays by Alexandre Matheron is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

Erin Obodiac received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine and has held teaching and research appointments at UC Irvine, the University of Leeds, SUNY Albany, and Cornell University. Her writings address the conceptual antecedents of machinic subjectivity as well as the nascent technosphere that ushered in our geologic era, the anthropocene. As a Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, she began the research project “Robots at Risk: Transgenic Art and Corporate Personhood,” which explored the role of automata in the genesis of cinematic animation and contemporary biomedia. As a Mellon Fellow, Obodiac developed this project as the book manuscript The Transhuman Interface, proposing that we use a lenticular lens to view cinema and the anthropocene as one emergence.

Tom Roach is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Coordinator of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bryant University, Rhode Island. He is the author of Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement (State University of New York Press 2012) and is currently completing his second monograph, tentatively titled Screen Love: Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era, also to be published by SUNY Press. His work has appeared in Qui Parle, GLQ, Cultural Critique, New Formations, Theory and Event, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Most of his scholarship is available at bryant.academia.edu/TomRoach.

Astrid Schrader is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. She works at the intersections of feminist science studies, human–animal studies, new materialisms, and deconstruction. Her work explores questions of responsibility, care, agency, and temporality in scientific knowledge production; it has been published in the journals Social Studies of Science, Environmental Philosophy, differences and Catalysts: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. She co-edited (with Sophia Roosth) a special issue of differences titled “Feminist Theory out of Science.”

Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham University (UK). He is the author of several articles on contemporary French philosophy and of the monograph Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida (SUNY Press, 2018). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Henri Atlan: An Essay on the Deconstruction of Life.

Eszter Timár is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Hungary. Her work focuses on biodeconstruction and on the intersections of queer theory and deconstruction. Her essays on Derridean autoimmunity appeared in The Oxford Literary Review, InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies, and Parallax.

Francesco Vitale is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno (Italy). His academic interests have focused on Derrida’s work since his PhD dissertation in philosophy on Derrida’s relation to Hegel (University Federico II of Napoli, Italy). Francesco Vitale is author of many essays on Derrida, published in Italian, English, French, and Japanese, and of two volumes published in English: Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences (SUNY, 2018), The Last Fortress of metaphysics: Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture (SUNY, 2018).