Kazi Jones has worked in non-profit operations for more than 15 years. She has held various responsibilities including bookkeeping, human resources and benefits management, contract management, risk management, IT coordination, and many others as needed. She specializes in developing systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations processes. Kazi is also a professional actress […]

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.

Hannah Gadbois is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago; she holds an MA from Boston University. Her dissertation focuses on Soviet photomontage artists and their depictions of temporality in the early years of the Soviet Union. More broadly, her research follows ideas of progress, industrialization, labor time, and the […]

William Harris is a doctoral student in English literature at the University of Chicago, where he is at work on a cultural history of the postwar Midwest. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Minnesota, and was previously a Core Fellow in critical studies at the Museum of Fine Arts, […]

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 […]