Amanda Beech is an artist and writer whose work proposes a new realist politics of the artwork and its possibilities in the context of contingency. She is Dean of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts.
Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. He is currently working on a book about the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars, entitled Reasons, Patterns, and Processes: Sellars’ Transcendental Naturalism.
Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts Of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (both published by Zero books). He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Aural and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Robin Mackay is Director of Urbanomic and editor of Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research and Development.
Luke Pendrell is an artist and writer based at the University of Brighton. His work, which explores the interstices of science, technology and the supernatural, has been exhibited at The Barbican, London; MoMi, New York; and Le Salle de Legion d’honneur, Paris, amongst others.
Benedict Singleton is a strategist with a background in design and philosophy. He is based in London, where he divides his time between consultancy work, self-directed and pro bono projects, and running a graduate architecture studio at the Royal College of Art.
Nick Srnicek is a Teaching Fellow in Geopolitics and Globalisation at UCL. He is the author, with Alex Williams, of Inventing the Future: Folk Politics and the Left (London: Verso, forthcoming 2015), and the editor, with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman, of The Speculative Turn (Melbourne: re.press, 2010).
James Trafford is Senior Lecturer in cultural theory at University for the Creative Arts, Epsom. He works primarily on the intersections of rationalism, non-standard logic and mathematics.
Tom Trevatt is a London based writer, lecturer, curator and PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University of London. He is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, The Bartlett and University for the Creative Arts. His research revolves around the intersection of neoliberal politics and economics, the environmental impact of fossil fuels and contemporary art.
Alex Williams is currently completing a PhD thesis entitled Complexity and Hegemony in the politics department of the University of East London. He is the author, with Nick Srnicek, of the forthcoming Inventing the Future: Folk Politics and the Left (London: Verso, forthcoming 2015).
Ben Woodard is a PhD student in theory and criticism at University of Western Ontario. His work focuses on naturalism in the thought of F.W.J. von Schelling.
The editors would like to thank The Artworkers’ Guild, University for the Creative Arts, the participants and audience of the roundtable discussion, and Linda Stupart for transcribing the day’s proceedings.