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Notes on Contributors
Volume 13, Number 2
April, 2003
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Zafer Aracagök
Zafer Aracagök is currently working at the Faculty of Arts, Design
and Architecture at Bilkent University, Turkey, where he teaches
continental philosophy and philosophy of art on graduate level. He
published three books of theory/fiction in Turkey; as a
performance artist he performed works influenced much by Blanchot,
Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari. His recent works to be published
are concerned with the concept of "event," "rhythm," and "trauma."
Charles Baldwin
Sandy Baldwin is Assistant Professor of English and Director of
the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. He
has published on topics such as the mnemotechnics of computer
interfaces, nanotechnology and culture, the politics of Microsoft
Word, and crash test dummies. His poetry and performances can be
found solo and with groups such as Purkinge, 9-Way Mind, the APG,
and the Loop. Baldwin is co-director, with Loss Pequeño Glazier,
of E-Poetry 2003: An International Digital Poetry Festival.
Piotr Gwiazda
Piotr Gwiazda is Assistant Professor of English at University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. His poems and reviews appear this year
in Hotel Amerika, The Southern Review, and The Times Literary
Supplement. His review of "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal
Society in the Western World" appeared in the September 2001 issue
of Postmodern Culture.
Susan Laxton
Susan Laxton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art
History and Archaeology at Columbia University in New York,
currently finishing a dissertation on the role of play in
surrealist art practice entitled Paris as Gameboard. Most recently
she has curated an show by that same name at the Wallach Gallery
in New York, where for the first time Man Ray's collection of
images by the photographer Eughne Atget went on display.
Char Roone Miller
Char Miller is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at
George Mason University. He recently published Taylored
Citizenship, an examination of the roles of discipline in
configuring subjectivity in the twentieth-century United States.
Currently, he is completing an examination of the ways consumer
desires influence our sense of self and society, to be titled
Affordable Desires.
Saul Newman
Saul Newman received his Doctorate in Politics from the University
of New South Wales in 1998. He was a Research Fellow at Macquarie
University from 1999-2002 and a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities
Research Institute at the UCI, Irvine. He is currently a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Australia and is
conducting research in the area of contemporary political and
social thought, critical theory, and continental philosophy, in
particular on thinkers such as Max Stirner, Derrida, Zizek,
Foucault, Lacan and Ernesto Laclau. He is interested in theories
of political identity, power, radical democracy, ideology,
hegemony, and psychoanalysis. He has published widely in this
area, including a book on poststructuralism and anarchism, as well
as a number of refereed journal articles. He is currently working
on a book on poststructuralist political theory for MUP.
Rekha Rosha
Rekha Rosha is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow at
Brandeis University. She is currently working on the narration of
economics in novels of American enterprise.
Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature,
Communication, & Culture at Georgia Tech. He has written
extensively on the cultural aspects of biotechnologies, and his
book Biomedia is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota
Press. He is also part of the Biotech Hobbyist collective.
Darren Tofts
Darren Tofts is Associate Professor and Chair of Media &
Communications, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. A
version of his essay was presented at the 2002 Biennale of Sydney.
His most recent book is Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual
History, edited with Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (MIT
Press/Power Publications, 2003).
Meyda Yegenoglu
Meyda Yegenoglu is Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
She has published several articles on orientalism,
postcoloniality, nationalism, and feminism in various journals and
collections. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a
Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge UP, 1998). She is
currently working on a book on globalization, migrancy, and
European Union.
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