Cristian Arão
holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Universidade Federal da Bahia. He is affiliated to the group “Marx no século xxi” and develops research in Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology and Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, within the Critical Theory tradition, dialoguing more deeply with Marx, Marcuse, and Freud.
Karyn Ball
is a professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her articles have appeared in Cultural Critique, Women in German Yearbook, Research in Political Economy, Differences, English Studies in Canada, New Literary History, Alif, the open-access journal Humanities, the Journal of Holocaust Studies, Angelaki, Law and Critique, and History and Theory. She guest edited a special issue of Cultural Critique on “Trauma and Its Cultural Aftereffects” (2000); and a special issue of Parallax on the concept of “visceral reason” (2005); with Susanne Soederberg. Ball co-edited a special issue of Cultural Critique on “Cultures of Finance” (2007); with Melissa Haynes, a special issue of esc on “The Global Animal” (2013); and, with Stefan Mattessich, a special issue of Cultural Critique on “pornocracy” (2018). Other representative publications include the edited collection Traumatizing Theory: the Cultural Politics of Affect in and beyond Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2007) and the monograph Disciplining the Holocaust (State University of New York Press, 2008) (paperback: 2009).
Nathalia N. Barroso
is a student in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from the postgraduate Program in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. She develops the research “The Power of Classic Female Blues evidenced by Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse” with special interest in the concepts “new sensitivity” and “great refusal”. She is co-author of Angela Davis, as Mulas do Mundo e a Música: por um novo paradigma (Angela Davis, The Mules of the World and Music: For a New Paradigm) published in the book Filosófas (2021).
Sergio Bedoya Cortés
obtained an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Los Andes, a master’s degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Maps and Tools for a New Culture of Citizenship, and a master’s degree in
Mary Caputi
is a professor of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach where she teaches courses in political theory, feminist thought, and critical thinking. Most recently, she published Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2022). She is also the author of Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory (Lexington Books, 2013), A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Voluptuous Yearnings: a Feminist Theory of the Obscene (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). With Amirhosein Khandizaji, she co-authored David Riesman and Critical Theory: Autonomy versus Emancipation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). She also co-edited and contributed to two collections of essays: Teaching Marx and Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Bryant Sculos (Brill, 2019), and Jacques Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, co-edited with Vincent Del Casino (Bloomsbury, 2013). She is currently at work on the Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, co-edited with Patricia Moynagh and under contract with Edward Elgar Press. She also served as editor of Politics & Gender from 2016–2019. Caputi has taught abroad in Italy on three occasions, and in addition to her Ph.D. from Cornell, she holds a master’s degree in Italian Studies from California State University, Long Beach.
Jennifer L. Eagan
is a professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs & Administration at California State University, East Bay. Working at the intersection of theory and praxis, she has published articles in the areas of feminist philosophy, critical theory, political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of public administration. Her ongoing research interests include organizing and activism and the works of Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler.
Lea Gekle
is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Adorno’s critique of sociology as an epistemological project, at the University de Picardie Jules Verne and Goethe Universität Frankfurt. She also teaches philosophy at the University de Picardie Jules Verne. Having completed an MA in contemporary philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, she passed the agrégation in German studies in 2018, before taking her position as a fully funded Ph.D. student in 2019. Since 2020, she is also a co-tutelle scholarship-holder of the daad. She is also associated at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. Her main research areas are epistemology of social theory, political philosophy, social philosophy, critical theory, and feminist theory.
Imaculada Kangussu
is a professor at the Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura of the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brasil. She is the author of Sobre Eros (About Eros, 2007), Leis da Liberdade (Laws of Freedom, 2008), and A Fantasia e as Fantasias (The Fantasy and the Fantasies, 2020). Among her edited volumes are Katharsis (2002), Theoria Aesthetica (2005), O cômico e o trágico (2008), and Estéticas moderna e contemporânea (2018). She serves on the board of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
Kristin Lawler
is a professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. Her first book, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism, was published by Routledge in 2011, and her new book, co-edited with Michael Roberts and David Cline, entitled Board Studies: the Political Ontology of Surfing and Skateboarding is forthcoming from San Diego State University Press in 2023. Her work has been published in numerous edited collections, including, most recently, Back to the 30s? Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Class: the Anthology; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, where her work has also been published, and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination.
is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, specializing in social-political philosophy and critical philosophies of gender, race, and class. Her research is interested in everyday politics as exemplified in cultural and aesthetic taste, including “She’s Making Profit Now: Neoliberalism, Ethics, and Feminist Critique” in philoSOPHIA and “How to feminist affect: Feminist comedy and post-truth politics” in Philosophy and Social Criticism. She can be reached at jxmcauliffe@ualr.edu.
Mario Mikhail
is a writer and a researcher interested in political and social theory. He is currently a Euroculture Master’s student at the Universities of Udine and Groningen and a recipient of an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. He has academic publications in the fields of political and social theory. His latest article is “A messianic life can be lived rightly: Democracy contra the capitalist-sovereign order” published in the Central European Journal of Politics. He also writes for the Development, Advocacy, and Media Center (dam) and Masr360.
Ryan Moore
teaches sociology at San Francisco State University and is the author of Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (nyu Press, 2010).
Jeremiah Morelock
is a postdoctoral researcher and instructor of sociology at Boston College. He is editor of two published volumes on the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School: Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, and How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School. He is also author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction: Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film, and co-author with Felipe Ziotti Narita of O Problema do Populismo as well as The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy.
Rafaela N. Pannain
received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in Political Science from Sorbonne University. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo and a member of the research group “Intersectional Dialogues and Latin American Epistemologies” (nupedelas). She organized the book The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective (Routledge, 2022).
lectures in sts and Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and Sociology at University of California, San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include social and political theory, science and technology studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge. She is co-editor, with Michael J. Roberts, of Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity, as well as a special issue by the same name of the journal Critical Sociology.
Simon Reiners
is a research assistant at the Oswald von Nell Breuning Institute for social and economic ethics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he teaches social philosophy. Currently, he is doing his doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Social Philosophy. His research focuses on the nature-culture relations and the role of the body in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary Material Feminism. The project he is working on is called Embodied Knowledge. Material Feminism and Critical Theory.
Frida Sandström
is a Ph.D. fellow in Modern Culture at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, supervised by Mikkel Bolt. She is currently working on the Ph.D. thesis, “Art criticism as social critique,” focusing on the social critique of art criticism and of revolutionary subjectivity, undertaken by Carla Lonzi, (1931–1982) Jill Johnston (1931–2009) and Adrian Piper (1948–). As part of this research, Sandström is undertaking collective research together with Fredrik Svensk, James Day and Mikkel Bolt, on the “Promise and Compulsion of Art Criticism’s Universalism”, which during 2020–2021 was manifested in two symposia. Sandström is teaching in the fields of aesthetic philosophy, art theory and fine art practice, at the University of Copenhagen, and at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and during 2021–22, she was a visiting research student at Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London, and supervised by Peter Osborne. Since 2015, Sandström is a contributing editor at Paletten Art Journal (se). She writes recurrent essays and art criticism for Artforum International and other Swedish and international journals.
Caio Vasconcellos
is an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and is a member of the
Tivadar Vervoort
studied philosophy in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Leuven. His current research project is entitled “The Revitalization of Political Subjectivity: Contesting Neoliberal Governmentality and the Reification of Social Life,” and funded by a Ph.D.-Fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (fwo). Vervoort is part of the editorial collective of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy and an editor for The Dutch Review of Books (De Nederlandse Boekengids).
Nicole Yokum
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College. She specializes in Feminist Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Social and Political Philosophy. She is currently working on her first book manuscript entitled The Politics of Insecurity, an investigation into affect, oppression, and political agency through the framework of attachment. Drawing on the concepts of Adornian coldness, Fanonian affective erethism, and Marcusean one-dimensionality, Yokum recuperates an “insecure” style of political engagement as an ethical and politically valuable response to longstanding oppressive conditions. Yokum’s recent publications include work on Fanon and psychosexual neuroses, and Foucault on Sade’s Juliette.
Lambert Zuidervaart
is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto, and a Visiting Scholar at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he resides. An internationally recognized expert in Critical Theory, especially the work of Theodor Adorno, he is currently developing a comprehensive and transformative conception of truth for an allegedly post-truth society, in three volumes: Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School: Critical Retrieval (The mit Press, 2017), Shattering Silos: Reimagining Knowledge, Politics, and Social Critique (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), and Social Domains of Truth: Science, Politics, Art, and Religion (Routledge, 2023). His new book on Adorno, titled Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth (suny Press) will appear in 2024.