Contributors
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Internationally recognized as one of the world's most eminent philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy is the author of several works, amongst others The Sense of the World and Corpus. He challenges the traditional alternatives of Western culture, pushing Philosophy to think about the fragmentary existence of a world that cannot be understood through classical philosophical systems.
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
The Slovenian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic is one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time. Žižek achieved international recognition as a social theorist after the 1989 publication of his first book in English, "The Sublime Object of Ideology“. He is a regular contributor to newspapers like “The Guardian”, “Die Zeit” or "The New York Times“. He has been labelled by some the "Elvis of cultural theory“ and is the subject of numerous documentaries and books.
CLAIRE FOINTAINE
Claire Fontaine is a conceptual feminist collective artist created in Paris in 2004 currently based in Palermo. She has exhibited internationally in museums and biennials. Selected solo shows include Your Money and Your Life, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2019; La Borsa e la vita, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, 2019; Les printemps seront silencieux, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, 2019; #displaced, Städtische Galerie Norhdorn, Nordhorn, 2019 ; Fortezzuola, Museo Pietro Canonica, Villa Medici, Roma 2016; Tears, Jewish Museum, New York 2013; 1493, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2013; Sell Your Debt, Queen's Nails, San Francisco 2013; Redemptions, CCA Wattis, San Francisco 2013; Carelessness causes fire, Audian Gallery, Vancouver 2012; Breakfast starts at midnight, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation Stockholm 2012; M-A-C-C-H-I-N-A-Z-I-O-N-I, Museion, Bolzano, 2012; P.IG.S., MUSAC, Castilla y León 2011; Economies, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2010; After Marx April, After Mao June, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado 2009.
After Foreigners Everywhere (2012) a second monograph entitled Newsfloor has been published by Koenig Books in 2020. In September 2017 DeriveApprodi published the comprehensive anthology of their texts entitled Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom, published in 2019 in French by Diapahnès, and in English by Semiotext(e) in 2021.
Claire Fontaine, House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt. Photo: Neven Allgeier
AMANDA BOETZKES
Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. Her writing examines the politics, aesthetics and ecologies of contemporary art through the lens of human waste, energy consumption and expenditure, and most recently, climate crisis and glacier melt in the circumpolar North. She is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019), The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and editor of Heidegger and the Work of Art History (2014). She has published in the journals South Atlantic Quarterly, E-flux, Postmodern Culture and Afterimage among others.
SREĆKO HORVAT
Srećko Horvat is a philosopher and political activist from Croatia. He has published more than 10 books translated into 15 languages. His books include After the Apocalypse (2021), Poetry from the Future (2019), What Does Europe Want? (co-authored with Slavoj Žižek, 2014), Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism (2015), and The Radicality of Love (2015). He is one of the founders of DiEM25 and Council member of the Progressive International.
MICHAEL MARDER
Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. At the forefront of the contemporary "plant turn" in the Humanities, his writings span the fields of environmental philosophy, political thought, and phenomenology. He is the author of numerous articles and sixteen monographs, including Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013); Phenomena—Critique—Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology (2014); The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (2014); Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze (2015), Dust (2016), Energy Dreams: Of Actuality (2017), Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics (2018), Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts (2019), and Dump Philosophy: A Phenomenology of Devastation (2020) among others.