Katja Diefenbach is Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL (http://after1968.org/). She taught at the University of Arts and the Humboldt University in Berlin. One of her major research orientations is the relation of Marxism and post-structuralism, in particular the concepts of potentiality and bio-politics in Foucault, Deleuze, Negri and Agamben.
Jack Henrie Fisher is a freelance graphic designer and a design researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie. He has worked and taught at Bruce Mau Design, studio/lab, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is formulating a practice with typography as an experiment with forms of ascesis connected to listening and writing. He also makes posters.
Dominiek Hoens teaches Philosophy of Art at the Academy for Fine Arts and Philosophy and Psychology of Art at the Arteveldehogeschool, both in Gent and Psychology and Media at RITS in Brussels. He is also an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie and co-founder of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique. He published on affect, logical time and love, on Lacan, Badiou and Duras.
Eric Lecerf Eric Lecerf started his professional life as skilled worker (from 1976 until 1981). He then became a primary school teacher and later programme director at the Collège International de Philosophie (from 1992 until 1998). Since 2002 he has been lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the Université Paris 8. He published two essays La famine des temps modernes (1992) and Le sujet du chômage (2002). He published several articles about the philosophy of work and thinkers of the emancipation such as Proudhon, Sorel, Simone Weil and Nizan.
Oliver Marchart, professor at the department of Sociology, University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Recent book publications include: Hegemonie im Kunstfeld. Die documenta-Ausstellung dX, D11, d12 und die Politik der Biennalisierung (König 2008); Post-foundational political thought. Political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Edinburgh University Press 2007).
Eduardo Pellejero (Argentina, 1972) teaches aesthetics at the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil). He is also a member of the research
group «The animal condition» da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).
Recent book publications include: Deleuze y la redefinición de la filosofía
(México, 2006), «Fora» da filosofia: as formas de um conceito em Sartre,
Foucault, Blanchot e Deleuze (Lisbon, 2007 in collaboration with Golgona
Anghel), and A postulação da realidade: filosofia, literatura, política
(Lisbon, 2009).
Diogo Sardinha is a Postdoctoral Research fellow in the Normes, Sociétés, Philosophies research group (NoSoPhi) at the University of Paris 1 and at the Philosophy Department of the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied philosophy at Lisbon (B.A. 1997) and at Nanterre (M.A. 1999, Ph.D 2005). His main research interests include 20th century French philosophy, and German philosophy after Kant, focused on anthropology, history, politics, and on the concepts of order, space, time and subject. He is the author of several papers on Kant, Foucault, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss, Baudelaire, Artaud and Bataille. In 2005 he edited an issue of the journal Labyrinthe on Foucault and biopolitics (now online at http://labyrinthe.revues.org.index1010.html). He is currently working on a monograph on Foucault and he is co-editing a book on Europe with Bertrand Ogilvie and Frieder Otto Wolf.
René Schérer is philosopher and professor emeritus at the Université de Paris 8. Between 1974 and 1979 especially, he wrote works about the pedagogy of childhood such as Émile perverti (1974) ; Co-ire (1976), in collaboration with Guy Hocquenghem; Le corps interdit (1977) with Georges Lapassade; Une érotique puérile (1978); L’emprise (1979). His latest books include: Pour un nouvel anarchisme (2008) and Nourritures anarchistes – l’anarchisme explosé (2009).
Jörg Volbers (Dr.) is Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Project (SFB) “Kulturen des Performativen“. He is doing research on Kant, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Foucault. His writings include Selbsterkenntnis und Lebensform (2009) and, as co-editor, Philosophie als Arbeit an Einem selbst. (2009). He is currently pursuing the intersections of ethical thought with the materiality and corporality of thinking.