Barry Allen is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). He completed doctoral research under Richard Rorty at Princeton University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy (Harvard UP, 1993), Knowledge and Civilization (Westview, 2004), Artifice and Design (Cornell UP, 2008), Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts (Columbia UP, 2015), and Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition (Harvard UP, 2015). He is Associate Editor at the interdisciplinary journal Common Knowledge.
Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006), Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture, and the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh UP, 2009), and Deleuze and History (Edinburgh UP, 2009). Bell is currently working on a book on Deleuze and Guattari’s What Is Philosophy? and is researching another book that will develop key concepts from both analytic and continental thought in order to address several key problems in metaphysics.
Simone Bignall is Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism (Edinburgh UP, 2010). She is also the co-editor of Deleuze and the Postcolonial (Edinburgh UP, 2010, with Paul Patton) and of Agamben and Colonialism (Edinburgh UP, 2012, with Marcelo Svirsky).
Sean Bowden is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and the co-editor, with Simon B. Duffy, of Badiou and Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2012). His research interests include contemporary French and European philosophy, American pragmatism, and theories of action and agency.
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has published books and articles on philosophy, poetry, and literary theory. Her most recent book is Twilight of the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming, co-authored with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller).
Simon B. Duffy is a Senior Lecturer at Yale–NUS College, Singapore. His research interests include early modern philosophy, modern and contemporary European philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, pragmatism, and normative ethics. He is the author of Deleuze and the History of Mathematics: In Defense of the New (Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (Ashgate, 2006). He is editor of Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference (Clinamen, 2006), and co-editor with Sean Bowden of Badiou and Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2012). He is also translator of Albert Lautman’s Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real (Continuum, 2011).
Gregory Flaxman is Director of Global Cinema Studies and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy (Minnesota, 2011) and the editor of The Brain Is the Screen (Minnesota, 2000).
Colin Koopman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author of two books, Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (Columbia UP, 2009) and Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (Indiana UP, 2013). His scholarship has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Foucault Studies, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and elsewhere. Among his current research projects is an inquiry into the politics of information, as previewed in his “The Age of ‘Infopolitics’” in The New York Times.
Stéphane Madelrieux is Maître de Conférences in the Department of Philosophy, Université Jean Moulin—Lyon 3 and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on James, Dewey, Bergson, and Deleuze, and is the author of William James: L’attitude empiriste (PUF, 2008) and the editor of the collection Bergson et James: Cent ans après (PUF, 2011). He is the editor of Bergson’s collected writings on William James, Sur le pragmatisme de William James (PUF, 2011) and has translated both James and Dewey into French.
Wojciech Ma ł ecki is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory at the Institute of Polish Philology, University of Wrocław, Poland. His research interests include American pragmatism, continental philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of the body, popular culture, animal studies, ecocriticism, and Polish and American literatures. He is the author of Embodying Pragmatism (Lang, 2010) and numerous journal articles, and is the editor or co-editor of three collections of essays. Małecki is also on the editorial board of the journal Pragmatism Today.
Paul Patton is Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published extensively on contemporary European philosophy and political philosophy. He is the author of Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics (Stanford UP, 2010) and Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000).
Jack Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University. His books include: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Acumen, 2011, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio UP, 2004), and Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2006). He has also co-edited: Sartre: Key Concepts (Acumen 2013), Continuum Companion to Existentialism (Continuum, 2011), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (Continuum, 2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008), and Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004). He is currently doing research on intersubjectivity and the perception of others, drawing on the phenomenological tradition as well as findings in developmental psychology and the cognitive sciences.
Jon Roffe is McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. The founding convener of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, he is an editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, and co-editor of a number of volumes on recent and contemporary French philosophy. His books include Badiou’s Deleuze (Acumen, 2012), Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh UP, 2014, with A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens) and the forthcoming The Works of Gilles Deleuze (forthcoming, 2015).
Simon Schleusener is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. He has published essays and reviews on American literature, cultural theory, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. As Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (also at Freie Universität Berlin), he has taught numerous courses on American culture and literature. In 2012, he completed his dissertation on the topic Kulturelle Komplexität: Gilles Deleuze und die Kulturtheorie der American Studies. His current research interests include affect theory, media studies, new materialist philosophies, and the relationship between culture and capitalism.
John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Emory University. He is the author of Pragmatic Fashions: Democracy, Pluralism, Relativism, and the Absurd (Indiana UP, forthcoming 2015), Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy (Routledge, 2003), Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience and Community (SUNY, 1997), and John Dewey (Carmichael and Carmichael, 1991). He is the editor of 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James’ ‘Epoch-Making’ Philosophy (Indiana UP, 2009), Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2 nd ed. 2000), and Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture (SUNY, 1993).
James Williams teaches at the University of Dundee. He has recently published a revised second edition of his introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2013), and a study of Deleuze’s philosophy of time, Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2011). His current research is on the process philosophy of signs.