Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of 17 books of philosophy, including A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe (2015), A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability (2017), and A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us (2019), all with University of Chicago Press.

Todd May

Take Your Time

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, who specializes on the problem of violence. He is author of over 17 books and edited volumes, including most recently&nbsp;Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity&nbsp;(2021) and&nbsp;Conversations on Violence: An Anthology&nbsp;(with Adrian Parr, 2021). He leads the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books&nbsp;“Histories of Violence” section.

Brad Evans

Adriana Cavarero is professor of Political Philosophy at the&nbsp;Università degli studi di Verona, Italy.

Adriana Cavarero

Akeel Bilgrami&nbsp;is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York.

Akeel Bilgrami

Ayça Çubukçu&nbsp;is associate professor in Human Rights and co-director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ayça Çubukçu

<h4>Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012), Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (1999), and The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986). His essays have appeared in n+1, The Nation, Public Books, and the London Review of Books. He is also the director of a documentary, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists, available at <a href="http://bestfriendsfilm.com/">bestfriendsfilm.com</a>.</h4>

Bruce Robbins

Carol Becker&nbsp;is dean of Faculty and professor of the Arts at&nbsp;Columbia&nbsp;University School of the Arts, New York.

Carol Becker

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at UC Irvine. His most recent book is Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015). He is currently at work on a book on Dread: The Politics of Our Time (2021).

David Theo Goldberg

Elisabeth Anker&nbsp;is associate professor of American Studies and Political Science at the&nbsp;George Washington University.

Elisabeth Anker

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

<h4>Gil Anidjar is a professor in the Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. His most recent book is Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014).</h4>

Gil Anidjar

Henry Armand Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University. He is the author of over 50 books, most recently including Terror of the Unforeseen and American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism.

Henry A. Giroux

Iakovos “Jake” (b. 1966) Chapman is a British-born printmaker, painter, and sculptor. He and his brother Konstantinos “Dinos” (b. 1962) are known as the Chapman Brothers. In their provocative work, they often reappropriate familiar work by past artists, ranging from Goya to Hitler.

Jake Chapman

Lilie Chouliaraki&nbsp;is chair in Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, UK.

Lilie Chouliaraki

Mark Juergensmeyer&nbsp;is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology, and affiliate of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mark Juergensmeyer

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. A retrospective of her work has been shown internationally, and her writing is published widely in publications such as Artforum,&nbsp;e-flux journal,&nbsp;and Texte zur Kunst.

Martha Rosler

Michael J.&nbsp;Shapiro&nbsp;is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa.

Michael J. Shapiro

R. A. Judy&nbsp;is professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

R. A. Judy

Richard&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Bernstein&nbsp;is Vera List Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the&nbsp;New School&nbsp;for Social Research, New York.

Richard J. Bernstein

Roland Bleiker is professor of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Political Theory at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Roland Bleiker

Samuel Moyn&nbsp;is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University.

Samuel Moyn

Samuel Weber is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, as well as Director of that University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory. Weber studied with Paul de Man and Theodor W. Adorno, whose book, Prisms, he co-translated into English. The translation of, and introduction to Theodor Adorno’s most important book of cultural criticism helped shape the reception of the Frankfurt School in the English-speaking world. Weber has also published books on Balzac, Lacan, and Freud, as well as on theatricality as medium and the relation of institutions and media to interpretation. His most recent book has been published in French under the title Inquiétantes singularités (Disquieting Singularities). His current research projects include “Toward a Politics of Singularity” and “Difference and Alterity in the Writings of Derrida.”

Samuel Weber

Simona Forti is professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale in Italy. She also teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today (2014).

Simona Forti

Susanna Siegel&nbsp;is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at&nbsp;Harvard&nbsp;University.

Susanna Siegel

Tarak Barkawi is professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK.

Tarak Barkawi

Vincent Brown&nbsp;is Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Vincent Brown

William&nbsp;E.&nbsp;Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the political science department at the John Hopkins University.

William E. Connolly

When the Towers Fell

Kehinde Andrews is professor of black studies at Birmingham City University. He is author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century and Resisting Racism. He is currently working on a book titled Empire 2.0.

Kehinde Andrews

Lauren Berlant teaches at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books have included, Sex, or the Unbearable (with Lee Edelman, 2014), Desire/ Love (2012), and Cruel Optimism (2011). This piece continues the discipline of writing in hundred-word units initiated in The Hundreds (with Kathleen Stewart, 2019) and is from a series written with and for Claudia Rankine, called “Poisons.”

Lauren Berlant

Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Her recent books include In the Ruins of Neoliberalism (2019), Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015) and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010).

Wendy Brown

Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, author, and activist. His books include&nbsp;My Booky Wook&nbsp;(2007),&nbsp;Revolution&nbsp;(2014), and&nbsp;Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions&nbsp;(2017).

Russell Brand

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Among in many books include, Tragedy, The Greeks &amp; Us (2019), What we think about when we think about football (2017) and Bowie (2014). He also curates the New York Times opinion column, The Stone.

Simon Critchley

Camille T. Dungy is a poet, essayist and editor whose eight books include&nbsp;Trophic Cascade,&nbsp;Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History, and&nbsp;Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her other honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry and prose, an American Book Award, and two NAACP Image Award nominations. Dungy is a professor at Colorado State University.&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk282884" href="http://www.camilledungy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="">www.camilledungy.com</a>

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Camille Dungy

Cynthia Enloe is professor of Political Science at Clark University and is the author of many books, including Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives, and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire. Enloe won the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).

Cynthia Enloe

Roberto Esposito is professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. Until 2013, he was vice director of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, full professor of Theoretical Philosophy, and the coordinator of the doctoral program in philosophy. For five years, he was the only Italian member of the International Council of Scholars of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of many books, including Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford University Press, 2004), Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota University Press, 2008), Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life (Polity Press, 2011), Third Person: Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal (Polity Press, 2012), Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2012), and Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015).

Roberto Esposito

Jack Halberstam is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Jack is the author of many books, including Trans: Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018), Gaga-Feminism (2012) and The Queer Art of Failure (2011).

Jack Halberstam

Saidiya Hartman is the author of&nbsp;Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America&nbsp;(Oxford, 1997);&nbsp;Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route&nbsp;(Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2007) and&nbsp;Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments&nbsp;(Norton, 2019). She is currently at work on a new book project,&nbsp;N Folio: An Essay on Slavery and the Archive. She has published articles on slavery, history and the archive, and black women’s lives, including&nbsp;“The Terrible Beauty of the Slum,” “Venus in Two Acts,” and “The Belly of the World.”&nbsp;She was a Guggenheim Fellow for 2018–2019, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, a Whitney Oates Fellow at Princeton University, and a Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her PhD from Yale. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the former director of the Institute for Research on Gender and Sexuality.

Saidiya Hartman

Brian Massumi is professor of communication at the University of Montreal. His most recent books include Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (Duke University Press, 2015), Politics of Affect (Polity, 2015), and What Animals Teach Us about Politics (Duke University Press, 2014). He is co-author with Erin Manning of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Brian Massumi

Chantal Meza is a Mexico-based painter and sculptor, whose award-winning work has been exhibited widely in Mexico. He website is:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chantal-meza.com/">www.chantal-meza.com</a>.

Chantal Meza

Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual activist, working at the intersection of politics and global/digital visual culture. In 2017, his book The Appearance of Black Lives Matter was published as a free ebook by NAME Publications and then in 2018 it came out as a limited edition hard-cover with a graphic essay by Carl Pope and a poem by Karen Pope. His book How To See The World was published by Pelican in the UK (2015) and by Basic Books in the United States (2016). Mirzoeff is considered one of the founders of the academic discipline of visual culture, with books like An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999/2009) and The Visual Culture Reader (1998/2002/2012). His book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2013.

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Adrian Parr is the dean of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and she has served as a UNESCO water chair.&nbsp;She has published several books, the most recent being Birth of a New Earth (Columbia University Press, 2017) and The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics (Columbia University Press, 2013).

Adrian Parr

Julian Reid is a political theorist, philosopher, and professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland. His books include Biopolitics of the War on Terror (2006), The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (co-authored with Michael Dillon, 2009), Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (co-authored with Brad Evans, 2014), and The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (co-authored with David Chandler, 2016).

Julian Reid

Eugene Thacker is a philosopher, poet, author, and professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. Thacker’s most recent books are the Horror of Philosophy series, including In the Dust of This Planet (2011), and Infinite Resignation (2018).

Eugene Thacker

<h4>McKenzie Wark is the author of The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso), Telesthesia (Polity), A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, 2004), Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (Verso, 2015), and various other things. She teaches in the liberal studies MA program at the New School for Social Research in New York City.</h4>

McKenzie Wark

Eyal Weizman is professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the agency Forensic Architecture. He is also a Global Scholar at Princeton University and a founding member of Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DaaR) in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

Eyal Weizman

George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, one of the college’s highest honors. He is also the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural fellow in the Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Program (2019–20 academic year). Yancy is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books. His latest book is entitled Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future (2023). At Academic Influence, he is cited as one of the top 10 influential philosophers in the decade 2010–20, based upon the number of citations and web presence. He has also published over 200 combined scholarly articles, chapters, and interviews that have appeared in professional journals, in books, and at various news sites. He is well known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times philosophy column The Stone and at the progressive nonprofit news organization Truthout. He is also series editor of Philosophy of Race at Lexington Books.

George Yancy

The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Why We Need Religion

The Opiate of the Masses? Not So Fast.

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

The Meaning of Belief

Must Atheists Trash Religion?