Notes on Contributors

Bret Benjamin is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Author of Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Benjamin teaches courses in Marx and Marxist theory, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies.  He is co-President (with Ericka Beckman and Neil Larsen) of the Marxist Literary Group, and sits on the editorial board of its journal Mediations.  In addition to his primary faculty appointment in upstate New York, he has held temporary teaching positions at Moscow State University in Russia and the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. 

Christopher Chamberlin is a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. in Culture and Theory from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminism and Critical Theory. From 2018 to 2020, he was the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the history and theory of the antiracist traditions of clinical psychoanalysis.  He serves as an editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Britton Edelen is a Ph.D. student in English at Duke University. Primarily focused on English and German modernism and informed by deconstruction and psychoanalysis, his research explores the wounds left in language—what Paul Celan would call enrichment—in the wake of various events of violence on multiple scales, from the individual to world historical. He reads formal experiments necessitated by trauma to show that they can provide ways of being hopefully together in a world that can so often seem without hope.

Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (2017), and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (2012).

A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German & Director of the Critical Theory Program at Macalester College. She works on philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis, social and political theory, and biopolitics. She is the author of Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure (Routledge, 2018), Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press, 2013), and Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007), andthe co-editor of Spinoza’s Authority: Volume 1: Resistance and Power in Ethics, and Volume 2: Resistance and Power in Political Treatises (both: Bloomsbury, 2018), and Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), as well as numerous articles in collections and journals.

Shmuel Lederman is a Research Fellow at the Weiss-Livnat Center for Holocaust Research and Education. He teaches at the University of Haifa and at the Open University of Israel. His first book, Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy: A People’s Utopia, was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. 

John Mowitt holds the Leadership Chair in the Critical Humanities at the University of Leeds. His publications range over the fields of culture, politics, and theory. In 2008 he collaborated with the composer Jarrod Fowler to transfigure his book Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking from print to a sonic text/performance, “Percussion” as Percussion.  His Radio: Essays in Bad Reception and Sounds: The Ambient Humanities appeared from the University of California Press, in 2011 and 2015 respectively.  His most recent book, Offering Theory: Reading in Sociography, appeared from Anthem Press earlier this year. In addition, he is a senior co-editor of the journal Cultural Critique.