Armen Avanessian’s books include, among others, Irony and the Logic of Modermity (2015), Present Tense. A Poetics with Anke Hennig (2015), Überschrift. Ethik des Wissens – Poetik der Existenz (2015), Speculative Drawing with Andreas Töpfer (2014) and Metanoia: Ontologie der Sprache with Anke Hennig (2014). Avanessian has been a Visiting Fellow at both Columbia University and Yale University, and taught extensively in art academies in Europe and the US. He is editor in chief at Merve Verlag Berlin and founded the bilingual research platform Speculative Poetics (www.spekulative-poetik.de).
Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics programme. He is the author of Narrative Care (2013), States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012), and coeditor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013) and Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012). De Boever edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also an Advisory Editor for boundary 2.
Levi R. Bryant is a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, Texas. He has written widely on poststructuralist thought, systems theory, psychoanalysis, and speculative realism. He is the author of Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media (2014), The Democracy of Objects (2011) and Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (2008).
Nathan Coombs is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, and author of History and Event: from Marxism to Contemporary French Theory (2015). He has published in Journal of Political Ideologies, Theory & Event, and The European Legacy, among others.
Myra J. Hird is Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Canada (www.myrahird.com), and is a recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Hird is Director of the genera Research Group (gRG), an interdisciplinary research network of collaborating natural, social and humanities scholars, and Director of Waste Flow (www.wasteflow.ca), an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socioethical issue. Hird has published eight books and over sixty articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to materiality.
Adrian Johnston is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. Recent publications include Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers (2014), Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy (2013) and Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (2009). He is the coauthor, with Catherine Malabou, of Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (2013). With Todd McGowan and Slavoj Žižek, Johnston is a coeditor of the book series Diaeresis at Northwestern University Press.
Suhail Malik is Reader in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, London, and was 2012–15 Visiting Faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. Publications include On the Necessity of Art’s Exit From Contemporary Art (2016) and ‘The Ontology of Finance’ in Collapse VIII (2014). With Christoph Cox and Jenny Jaskey, Malik is coeditor of Realism Materialism Art (2015) and, with Thomas Keenan and Tirdad Zolghadr, of The Flood of Rights (forthcoming, 2016).
Quentin Meillassoux is Professor of Philosophy at Université de Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne. He is author of Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction (2015), The Number and the Siren (2012) and After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (2008). Meillassoux is a frequent contributor to the journal Collapse.
Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Director of the Cognitive Studies Program, and former Director of Women’s Studies. She is the author/editor of ten books including Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (2012), The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) (2007) and Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation (1999), and of over 100 articles including essays, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, translations of her work, and collaborations with artists.
Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He writes about science fiction, music videos, and process philosophy and speculative realism. He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory (www.shaviro.com/Blog).
Sjoerd van Tuinen teaches Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and coordinates the Centre for Art and Philosophy (www.caponline.org). Publications include Speculative Art Histories (forthcoming), De nieuwe Franse filosofie (2011) and Sloterdijk. Binnenstebuiten denken (2004), and editorship of Deleuze and The Fold: A Critical Reader (2010) among others. His forthcoming book is Matter, Manner, Idea: Deleuze and Mannerism.
Kathryn Yusoff is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on political aesthetics, geophilosophy and environmental change (including climate change, extinction and the Anthropocene). She is currently working on Geologic Life, a book examining the genealogies, geoontologies and geographies of the Anthropocene.