Miranda Trimmier is an essayist who’s made homes in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, and Tucson. Her writing, which blends place-based history, critical commentary, and experimental memoir, has been shortlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and published in Places Journal, The New Inquiry, Boom California, Terrain, and other outlets. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona […]

Yoni Kretzmer is a tenor saxophonist, composer, cantor and teacher of Judaic studies. His main interests are Free-Jazz, third-stream, the books of the prophets and Jewish philosophy and ethics.

Alberto Toscano is the author of Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri(2025), Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords of an Interregnum(2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and Cartographies of the Absolute (with J. Kinkle, 2015). He is the co-editor (with B. Noys) of Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (3 […]

James C. Wagner is a translator of several works of contemporary German philosophy and literary scholarship and has worked as a German language instructor for the better part of two decades. He earned his Ph.D. at New York University having successfully defended his dissertation on Thomas Mann’s Reflections of an Un-Political Man and its anticipatory […]

Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and an Adjunct Professor at Birzeit University, where he teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies. He earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from Birzeit University. His work engages with a range of fields, including political theory, decolonial thought, cultural criticism, and the intellectual history of Palestine. […]

Zachary Tavlin holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Washington. In addition to serving as Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, he teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also Associate Editor at Wallace Stevens Journal. Zachary writes about […]

Gil Morejón, PhD, is a philosopher and historian of ideas. His research focuses on the history of metaphysics and critical philosophy, modern political theory, and contemporary political economy. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and has translated several books on Spinoza. He currently teaches at Loyola University […]

Xafsa Ciise is a teacher and researcher. She is currently writing a dissertation on the history of trauma in the Western medical tradition.

Ruth Averbach is a Teaching Fellow in the Program for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University, where she received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation, “Writing Women: Gender, Representation, and Alterity in Russian Realism,” examines why male authors passionately took up the cause of women’s rights in mid-19th century Russia. […]

Robyn Marasco is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel (Columbia UP, 2015), which reconstructs the emancipatory project of critical theory around the idea of negative dialectics.  Her articles have appeared in leading […]