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Jacob Blumenfeld is expected to receive his PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 2018, with a dissertation on the concept of property in Kant, Fichte and Hegel. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Viewpoint Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hegel Bulletin, Marx–Engels Jahrbuch, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Idealistic Studies, and the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. He edited and contributed to The Anarchist Turn (Pluto Press, 2013), co-translated for Kids (MIT Press, 2017), and has a book coming out soon on the philosophy of Max Stirner (Zero Books, 2018). [[email protected]]

Svenja Bromberg is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and teaching focus on issues of emancipation, radical democracy, citizen- ship and human rights between the eighteenth and twenty-first century as well as on different conceptions of (historical, dialectical, new) materialism. She completed her PhD ‘Thinking “Emancipation” after Marx – A Conceptual Analysis of Emancipation between Citizenship and Revolution in Marx and Balibar’ in 2016 at Goldsmiths, funded by the Stiftung and the German Academic Exchange Service. Svenja is a co-editor, together with Birthe Mühlhoff and Danilo Scholz, of Euro Trash (published in 2016 by Merve Verlag, Berlin), and a member of the editorial boards of and the publisher August Verlag Berlin. [[email protected]]

Ishay Landa is a senior lecturer in modern history at the Israeli Open University. His research interests include political theory – especially , fascism and liberalism – consumption studies, and popular culture. He is the author of Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt against the Last Humans, 1848–1945 (Routledge, 2018), The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism (Brill, 2010) and The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture (Lexington Books, 2007). [[email protected]]

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Søren Mau is a PhD Fellow at the University of Southern in the Department for the Study of Culture. He is currently working on a dissertation provision- ally entitled Mute Compulsions: A Theory of the Economic Power of . His research interests include Marx(ism), German Idealism, political philosophy and contemporary Continental Philosophy. He has published articles on topics such as Marx’s concepts of labour and fetishism, Freudo-Marxism, and Søren Kierkegaard and Alain Badiou. He is also a member of the board of the Danish Society of Marxist Studies. [[email protected]]

Benjamin Noys is Professor of at the University of Chichester. He is the au- thor of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Culture of Death (2005), The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (2010) and Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014), and editor of and Its Discontents (2011). [[email protected]]

Chris O’Kane teaches Philosophy, and at John Jay College, CUNY. His re- cent and forthcoming articles in Viewpoint, Black Box, Historical Materialism, Perspectives on , Logos, Capital & Class, Review of Radical Political Economy, Constellations and The SAGE Handbook of Marxism focus on Marxian and Habermasian critical theory and the critical theory of contempo- rary society. Along with Beverley Best and Werner Bonefeld, he is co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical Theory. [theresonlyonechris [email protected]]

Katja Praznik is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her re- search focuses on the politics of unpaid artistic labour during the demise of the welfare-state regimes. She is the author of The Paradox of Unpaid Artistic Labour: Artistic Autonomy, the Avant-Garde and Cultural Policy in the Transition to Post- published in Slovenian by Založba Sophia, Ljubljana, in 2016. She is currently working on a book on dispossessed art-workers and the exploi- tation of artistic labour after socialism. [[email protected]]

Darren Roso is a Berlin-based independent researcher, currently working on the theoreti- cal and political thought of Karl Korsch. He is the author of Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager, forthcoming in Brill’s

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