Researchers

Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern and co-director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. Professor 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 define the way in which […]

Yves Winter es profesor asistente en el departamento de ciencia política de la Universidad de Minnesota. Sus principales áreas de investigación son la teoría política, historia de las ideas políticas y teorías de la violencia.

Profesor de literatura y cultura latinoamericana en el departamento de foreign languages de la Universidad de Arkansas, Fayetteville. Su trabajo se refiere a las relaciones entre agotamiento del humanismo e imaginación crítica, en literatura y artes visuales.  

She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Her article «From Abbreviation to Affirmation: Nietzsche’s Styles and the Transformation of Origin» is forthcoming in Semiotics 2008.  

Laura S. Reagan teaches political thought at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile and Viña del Mar, Chile since July, 2010.  She received her PhD from Northwestern University, Department of Political Science in December of 2010. She is currently working towards turning her dissertation, “Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651): the theatre of the modern commonwealth” […]

Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His areas of research are post-structuralism, the avant-gardes, biopolitics and post-Bergsonian and Nietzschean vitalisms.He has recently finished a book entitled: Una vita. Pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell’ intensità

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies. In addition to authoring Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Minnesota, 2006) and the forthcoming Tecnica, thanatos, vita (Diotima, 2010), he has translated Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2009). At Cornell he teaches courses on contemporary Italian philosophy, cinema, and […]

Arne De Boever is assistant professor of American Studies in the School of Critical Studies and the Graduate Program in Aesthetics and Politics at the California Institute of the Arts. His current research project traces the complicities between the rise of the novel as a genre and the birth of biopolitics.

Licenciada en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (2001) y Doctora en Literatura Latinoamericana por New York University (2009). Actualmente se desempeña como profesora asistente de Literatura Latinoamericana en University of Kentucky. Su tesis doctoral Relics of Life. Biopolitical Imaginations in Argentina analiza los cruces entre ciencias naturales, pensamiento político y escritura literaria en las imágenes […]