Emmanuel Barot
born in 1976, was formerly a HDR lecturer at the University of Toulouse–Jean Jaurès (France). Currently he works as an electrician and continues, on the margins of institutions, his research on Marxism, comparative epistemology and political theory. [ebarot@free.fr]
Aldo Beretta
is a research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He also holds lecture and research positions at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin and the Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Chile-Lateinamerika. Some of his publications include: Democracy and Economy: Traces of an Immanent Crisis (2020), From Marx to Mariátegui: Primitive Accumulation and Agrarian Community (2019), Observations on Habermas’s Critique of Marx (2017), and Capitalism and Reification: An Approach to Theodor W. Adorno (2016). He is currently working on the reception of Marx in contemporary Critical Theory. [aldo.beretta@hu-berlin.de]
Rebecca Fritzl
holds an MA in Philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin, and is a member of the Research Colloquium on Social Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [r.fritzl@fu-berlin.de]
Alexey V. Gusev
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He is the author of more than 90 publications on Russian political history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the history of socialist and labour movements, and historiography and political theory. His main area of research is the history of the communist opposition in Soviet Russia. In 2019–21 he was a head of the research project Anti-Stalin Communist Opposition in the USSR in the Early 1930s, and responsible for editing The Verkhne-Uralsk Political Isolator Notebooks 1932–1933: Collection of Documents (2022). He is a contributor to the Great Russian Encyclopaedia and a member of the Free Historical Society of Russia. [gusevmsu@gmail.com]
Harry Harootunian
is the Max Palevsky Professor of History, Emeritus in the University of Chicago and currently Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University. He has published widely on Japan’s intellectual and cultural history and is the author of History’s Disquiet, The Empire’s New Clothes and, more recently, Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism. [hdh5@columbia.edu]
Stefan Kipfer
is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto. He has explored the meaning of space, city and urbanisation in social and political theory and investigated comparative dynamics of urban politics on both sides of the Atlantic, notably in Toronto, Paris and Zurich. His work has been published in a wide range of venues, including the journals Antipode, Studies in Political Economy, Historical Materialism, Society and Space, Progress in Human Geography, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and DISP. Kipfer is the author of Urban Revolutions: Urbanization and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2022), which appeared in French as Le temps et l’espace de la (dé)colonisation: dialogue entre Frantz Fanon et Henri Lefebvre (Eterotopia France, 2019). He is co-editor of Gramsci: Space, Nature Politics (with Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart and Alex Loftus; Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre (with Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid and Richard Milgrom; Routledge, 2008). [kipfer@yorku.ca]
Ayyaz Mallick
is Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool (UK). His research interests include Marxist and postcolonial theory, with a focus on labour, social movements, and urban politics in Pakistan specifically and the global South generally. His publications in English and Urdu have explored issues of state theory, urban development and restructuring, and the relationship between ‘particular’ and ‘universal’ in social theory and political practice. His academic work has appeared in Antipode, Studies in Political Economy, Urban Geography, and Tarikh [History]. He has also written for newspapers and other popular outlets such as Jacobin, The News, Novara Media, and Socialist Project. [M.A.Mallick@liverpool.ac.uk]
Andreas Malm
teaches human ecology at Lund University. He is the author of, most recently, together with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism (Verso, 2021). [Andreas.Malm@hek.lu.se]
Niklas Plaetzer
is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Chicago and Sciences Po Paris. He works on contemporary political theory and the history of political thought, with a focus on radical democratic theory and global legacies of revolutionary republicanism. His dissertation draws on the critical method of Miguel Abensour to recover the institutional thought and practice of ‘plebeian internationalists’ in France, Germany, the US, and Brazil (ca. 1848–88). Niklas’s most recent publications include ‘Decolonizing the “Universal Republic”: The Paris Commune and French Empire’ in Nineteenth-Century French Studies (2021) and ‘Eichmann in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt reads Hannah Arendt’ in Modern Intellectual History (2022). [nplaetzer@uchicago.edu]
Vanita Seth
is an associate professor in the Politics Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 (Duke University Press, 2010) and ‘The Origins of Racism: A Critique of the History of Ideas’ (History and Theory 59.3, 2020). Her recent work focuses on alterity, history, and the European Middle Ages. [vseth@ucsc.edu]
Massimiliano Tomba
is a Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his publications are Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (Peter Lang, 2005), La ‘vera politica’. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia (Quodlibet, 2006), Marx’s Temporalities (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2012), Attraverso la piccola porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (Mimesis, 2015), and Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2019). [mtomba@ucsc.edu]