Notes on Contributors

John Culbert John Culbert is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Paralyses: Literature, Travel and Ethnography in French Modernity (Nebraska 2010). His article “The Well and the Web” appeared in Postmodern Culture 19.2.

Jonathan Fardy Jonathan Fardy is Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Graduate Studies in Art at Idaho State University. His research examines the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of contemporary theories of art and politics. He is the author of three books: Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy; Laruelle and Non-Photography; and Althusser and Art. His current book project, The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle, is due out next year.

Adam Dylan Hefty Adam Dylan Hefty is an Assistant Professor in the Core Curriculum program at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia). He holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Recent works include essays on right-wing responses to climate change and on the history of mood disorders. He is working on a manuscript that traces a genealogy of the connection between practices of managing work and mental health.

Miriam Jerade Miriam Jerade is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Santiago de Chile. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Ivan and Nina Ross Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in the University of Pennsylvania. Recent works include articles on political readings of speech act theory, Derrida’s reading of the death penalty, and representation and sovereignty in Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida. Her first book is Violencia. Una lectura desde la deconstrucción de Jacques Derrida (Metales Pesados, 2018).

Cory Austin Knudson Cory Austin Knudson is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses broadly on modernism and the environmental humanities, with emphasis on the function of decomposition in both literature and ecology. His essay, “Seeing the World: Visions of Being in the Anthropocene,” has been recently published in Environment, Space, Place. With Tomas Elliott, he is currently translating Georges Bataille’s The Limit of the Useful, a preliminary manuscript to The Accursed Share, for MIT Press.

Erin Obodiac Erin Obodiac received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine and has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Leeds, SUNY Albany, Cornell University, and SUNY Cortland. She currently lectures in the UC Irvine-Dalian University of Technology joint program. Her writings assemble residual questions from the deconstructive “legacy” with emergent discourses in technics and animality, media ecology, and machinic subjectivity. She is completing a book called Husserl’s Comet: Cinema and the Trace, which repositions deconstruction within the history of cybernetics and machinic life.

Rocío Pichon-Rivière Rocío Pichon-Rivière is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University and a visiting scholar at the Pratt Institute. Recent works include essays on hemispheric trans theory, Latin American women’s political thinking, and phenomenologies of shame.

Sara-Maria Sorentino Sara-Maria Sorentino is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research asks methodological questions that excavate connections between anti-black violence, philosophical abstraction, and material reproduction. She has work published or forthcoming in Rhizomes, Theory & Event International Labor and Working-Class History, Antipode, and Telos.