PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
Université de Paris VIII	Alain Badiou	'One Divides into Two' - Alain Badiou is Professor of Philosophy at Université de Paris VIII (Vincennes at Saint-Denis), France. He is also Conference Director at the Collège International de Philosophie. Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Hegel, Lacan and Deleuze, he is a critic of both the analytical and postmodern schools of thought. He is the author of many books, including novels, plays and political writings. His books of philosophy, politics and criticism include: L’Etre et l’événement (Seuil, 1988), Manifesto for Philosophy (SUNY, 1999), Gilles Deleuze: The Clamour of Being (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Ethics (Verso, 2001).
Bath Spa University College	Paul Bowman	'Politics and Ethics from Behind' - Paul Bowman is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College, England. Formerly an editor of the journal Parallax whilst completing his PhD at the University of Leeds, he has published on the themes of the politics of knowledge and the university, post-Marxist political philosophy and cultural studies. He is currently preparing books on the politics of cultural studies (Interrogating Cultural Studies), and the ramifications of post-Marxist political philosophy for the future of cultural research (Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies), as well as work on the practical ‘uses’ of cultural theory (The Love and Hate of Cultural Studies).
University of Toronto	Mark Clamen	'Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Inter-human' - Mark Clamen is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of  Toronto, Canada. His dissertation, Levinas, Testimony, and the Memory of Tradition, explores the intersection of questions of historical memory, ethical obligation, and responsible reading in the philosophical and religious writings of Emmanuel Levinas. Though the project involves a re-thinking of the figure of the witness and the historical subject in a more general sense, it constitutes a response to the particular demands placed upon the present by the legacy of Holocaust testament. He is also a research associate and member of the Testimony & Historical Memory Project at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
University of Essex	Simon Critchley	'Ethics, Politics and Radical Democracy – the History of a Disagreement' - Simon Critchley  is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, England. He is a Programme Director of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia and during 2002 he will be Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University, USA. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (Routledge, 1997), Ethics, Politics and Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought (1999), The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (Blackwell, 1992; second edition, Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and On Humour (Routledge, London and New York, 2002). His current research focuses on the idea of ethical commitment and political action, as well as the philosophical importance of poetry and Heidegger's early work.
University of Toronto	Mario DiPaolantonio	'Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Inter-human' - Mario DiPaolantonio is completing a doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto, Canada, on the formation and pedagogical implications of public memory in post-traumatic societies. He is also a research associate and member of the Testimony & Historical Memory Project at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
King's College London	Peter Hallward	'Badiou's Politics: Equality and Justice' - Peter Hallward teaches at King's College London, England. His publications include Absolutely Postcolonial (Manchester University Press, 2001) and Subject to Truth: The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (Minnesota University Press, forthcoming).  E-mail: peter.hallward@kcl.ac.uk.
University of Essex	Ernesto Laclau	'Ethics, Politics and Radical Democracy – A Response to Simon Critchley' - Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Essex, England. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Toronto, Chicago, California (Irvine), Paris (Nouvelle Sorbonne), and the New School for Social Research, as well as various Latin American universities. He has been made Honorary Professor of the universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata (Argentina). He has obtained a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Wilson Center (Washington) and the Institute of Humanities (California). He is the author of Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory (Verso, 1977) and New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time (Verso, 1990), as well as co-author of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (Verso, 1985). He is the editor of The Making of Political Identities (Verso, 1994) and Emancipation(s) (Verso, 1996).
Lancaster University	Shannon E. Lowe	'Miskinetic Neuropoliticology: the Practice of Constructing and Disciplining the Organism of the Brain' - Shannon E. Lowe is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, England. She is interested in the intersections between the visual, the biopolitical, policing and movement.
University of Toronto	Patricia Molloy	'Moral Spaces and Moral Panics - High Schools, war Zones, and Other Dangerous Placess' - Patricia Molloy has a PhD in Education from the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has taught in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. She has published extensively on the cultural study of international politics and ethics and is the author of From the Strategic Self  to the Ethical Relation: Pedagogies of War and Peace which is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2003.
University of California, Irvine	Mark Poster	'The Aesthetics of Distracting Media' - Mark Poster is Professor of History and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent and forthcoming books are: What’s the Matter with the Internet: A Critical Theory of Cyberspace (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), The Information Subject in Critical Voices Series (Gordon and Breach Arts International, 2001), Cultural History and Postmodernity (Columbia University Press, 1997), The Second Media Age (Polity and Blackwell, 1995) and The Mode of Information (Blackwell and University of Chicago Press, 1990).
University of Toronto	Roger I. Simon	'Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Inter-human' - Roger I. Simon is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. Director of the Testimony and Historical Memory Project, he and other project members can be reached at thm@oise.utoronto.ca. Simon has written extensively on the pedagogical and ethical dimension of remembrance practices as well as critical approaches to education. His most recent  book (edited together with Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert) is Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma.
University of Warwick	Alberto Toscano	'One Divides into Two'(translation) - Alberto Toscano is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Warwick, England, entitled The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze. He is an editor of Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. He is the translator and interlocutor of Alain Badiou’s The Century (forthcoming), and the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou’s Theoretical Writings (Continuum, 2003), as well as the author of several articles, published in Pli, Nietzsche para o Século XXI (University of Lisbon, 2002), and The New Schelling, ed. by J. Norman and A. Welchman (Continuum, 2003).  E-mail: pyrfx@warwick.ac.uk
Bryant College	Elizabeth Walden	'Cultural Studies and the Ethics of Everyday Life' - Elizabeth Walden is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Bryant College in Smithfield, Rhode Island, US, where she teaches courses in Film Theory, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies and Philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her dissertation Encountering Everyday Life: Philosophy/Politics/Aesthetics Beyond the Linguistic Turn, explores the concept of everyday life as a starting point for an embodied intellectual praxis that presents an alternative to a linguistic model of inquiry that continues to predominate within critical discourse. She is currently working on articles about the senses and cinematic representation, and the failure of new philosophies of emotion to address the social conditions of the tension between thinking and feeling.
University of Surrey Roehampton	Joanna Zylinska	'"They're All Antisemitic There": Aporias of Responsibility and Forgiveness' - Joanna Zylinska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton, England. She is the author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester University Press, 2001) and editor of a collection of essays on the work of performance artists Stelarc and Orlan, The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (Continuum, 2002). She is also co-editor of a special issue of Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics on ‘Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics’ (November 2001). Her work on cultural studies, ethics, feminist theory and new technologies has appeared in numerous journals, including: Women: A Cultural Review, Critical Survey and J_Spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought. She is Reviews Editor for Culture Machine. E-mail: j.zylinska@roehampton.ac.uk