Contributors Diedrich Diederichsen was the editor of the music magazines Sounds and Spex (Hamburg and Cologne) in the 1980s and early 1990s, currently holds professorships at Art Academy in Vienna and the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, and has taught on art, music, and theater in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Vienna, Munich, Pasadena, Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/grey/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/grey.2007.1.26.4/688688/grey.2007.1.26.4.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 Gainesville, Fl, St. Louis, Bremen, Giessen, and Weimar. His latest books include: Golden Years (Camera Austria, 2006), Musikzimmer (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2005), and Personas en loop (Interzona, 2005). Noam M. Elcott is a doctoral candidate in modern art history at Princeton University. He is a current DAAD fellow in Berlin and is completing a dissertation entitled “Into the Dark Chamber: Avant-garde Photograms and the Cinematic Imaginary.” Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago in the Department of Art History and the Committee on Cinema and Media. He is author of two books, D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1993) and The Films of Fritz Lang; Allegories of Vision and Modernity (British Film Institute, 2000), as well as over a hundred articles. David James teaches at the University of Southern California. His most recent book is The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005). Tom McDonough is associate professor of modern architecture and urbanism at Binghamton University and is the author of “The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France (MIT Press, 2007). Charity Scribner teaches European Studies at MIT, where she holds the Class of 1954 Career Development Professorship. She is the author of Requiem for Communism (MIT Press, 2003) and a con- tributor to the New Left Review and Critical Inquiry. She wrote this article while a visiting professor at Balliol College, Oxford. 4.