Jason Del Gandio is an Associate Professor of Communication and Social Influence at Temple University. He specializes in the theory and practice of social justice and the performance, philosophy, and rhetoric of liberation. He is author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists (2008), and coeditor (with Anthony J. Nocella II) of Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice (2014) and The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (2014). Visit www.jasondelgandio.net for more information.
AK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016), Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010), and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the editorial committee of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.
Emily Brissette has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches at Bridgewater State University. Her research explores meaning, subjectivity, and the conditions of possibility in US politics and social movements. Her work has appeared in Rethinking Marxism, Interface, and Critical Sociology.
Eric Drooker’s drawings and posters are a familiar sight in the global street art movement, while his paintings appear frequently on covers of The New Yorker. A Berkeley resident for many years, Drooker was born and raised in New York City, where he began to slap his images on the streets as a teenager. Over time, his reputation as a social critic led to countless editorial illustrations for The Nation, the New York Times, The Progressive, the Village Voice, among others. Drooker won the American Book Award for Flood! A Novel in Pictures (1992), followed by Blood Song (2002), and most recently, Howl: A Graphic Novel (2010), illustrated with animation art he designed for the motion picture Howl. Drooker’s artwork is part of important collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and the Library of Congress. More can be found at www.Drooker.com.
Arnold L. Farr specializes in German Idealism, Marxism, critical theory, and philosophy of race. He is coeditor and coauthor of Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture (2000) and author of Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies (2009). He is author of over three dozen articles and book chapters on German Idealism, critical theory (mainly Marcuse and Honneth), and philosophy of race. He is the founder and president of the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Arnold is presently working on three books: Misrecognition, Mimetic Rivalry, and One-Dimensionality: Toward a Critical Theory of Human Conflict and Social Pathology; Liberation, Dialectic, and the Struggle for Social Transformation: The Life and Work of Herbert Marcuse; and finally, Multidimensional Marcuse: Radical Thought/Radical Action Today.
Richard Gilman-Opalsky is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky’s PhD is in Political Science from the New School for Social Research. He is the author of three books: Unbounded Publics (2008), Spectacular Capitalism (2011), and Precarious Communism (2014). His teaching, research, and academic training are focused on continental and contemporary social theory, Marxism, capitalism, critical theory, social movements, and the public sphere. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe.
Jack Hipp is an artist, writer, thinker, father of four, and day laborer from the Philadelphia area. He holds no institutional affiliations and no formal degrees in higher education. Instead, he is an avid reader, lover of wisdom, and political radical whose moral compass was forged within the communes and collectives of early-1970s Southern California, and to whose old friends and comrades he lovingly dedicates his chapter.
George Katsiaficas is a longtime activist and an author of books on the 1968 global imagination and European and Asian autonomous movements. Together with Kathleen Cleaver, he edited Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy (2001). His most recent book is the two-volume Asia’s Unknown Uprisings (2012, 2013). The first volume focuses on South Korean social movements in the twentieth century, and the second volume deals with popular occupations of public space in ten places in Asia in the 1980s and 1990s. For many years, George taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He was a research affiliate at Harvard in both Korean studies and European studies and twice awarded Fulbright fellowships (to Germany and Korea). He is currently International Coordinator of the May 18 Institute in Gwangju and lives in Ocean Beach, California. His website is: http://www.eroseffect.com.
Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books and articles on social theory, politics, history, media, and culture. Some of his more recent books include Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era (2009) and Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere (2012); and Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches (2009), coedited with Rhonda Hammer, and Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks (2012, second edition), coedited with Meenakshi Gigi Durham. He has published a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steven Best and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration. Author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (1984), Kellner has also edited the collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, six volumes of which have appeared with Routledge. Several of his works can be found at his website: https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner.
Gooyong Kim (PhD UCLA, Cultural Studies) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Languages, and Communication Arts at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Over the years, he has investigated the sociopolitical potentials of Brechtian popular culture as a means of social movement mobilization. His more recent research focuses on relationships between the Korean media industry, the global popularity of Korean pop music, and Korea’s neoliberalization. He has taught courses on the Korean media, popular culture, social movements, and political changes.
Mike King is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Bridgewater State University. He was an active participant in Occupy Oakland and is the author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (2017).
Sabu Kohso is an extra-academic writer and translator, native of Japan, and resident of New York City since the early 1980s. He has written five books on urban struggles and anarchism in Japanese, three of which have been translated into Korean. He has translated books by such authors as Kojin Karatani, Arata Isozaki, David Graeber, and John Holloway. He created the website bordersphere.com and coedits another, jfissures.org. He has long been active in the global anticapitalist struggle.
Peter Marcuse is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. He earned a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Peter was Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, President of the Los Angeles Planning Commission; and a member of Community Board 9M in New York City. His most recent books include: Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? (2000) and Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space (2002), both coedited with Ronald van Kempen; Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2009), coedited with James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, and Justin Steil; and Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (2011), coedited with Neil Brenner and Margit Mayer.
Nina Power is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and a Tutor in Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. She has written widely on philosophy, politics, protest, and feminism. She is a founding member of the campaign group Defend the Right to Protest.
Anat Schwartz is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on South Korea regarding contemporary women’s writing and activism, new media, placemaking, and militarization.
Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. She is the author of Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle (2012/2014).