Theory & Event

Elisabeth Anker is Assistant Professor of American Studies at The George Washington University. Her book Orgies of Feeling: Melodramatic Politics and the Pursuit of Freedom (Duke University Press, under contract) examines the role of melodramatic genre forms in American political discourses of freedom and violence. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Communication, Politics and Gender, Political Theory, and American Literature. Elisabeth can be reached at anker@gwu.edu

David Bissell is Lecturer in Sociology at the Australian National University. His current research examines how contemporary urban mobilities are sculpted by the affective life of habit and routine. His work has been published in Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. He is the co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (Routledge, 2011) and the forthcoming Handbook of Mobilities (Routledge). His website www.transientspaces.com provides a comprehensive overview of his research projects. David can be reached at david.bissell@anu.edu.au.

P.J. Brendese is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Haverford College. He is the author of The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics (Rochester University Press, 2012). His work has appeared in Polity, Theory & Event, and edited volumes. He is currently working on a book that examines how racialized power inequalities are experienced as impositions on human time, provisionally entitled The Race of Secular Time: Segregated Temporality and Racial Inequality. P.J. can be reached at pbrendes@haverford.edu

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. His most recent book is A World of Becoming, published with Duke in 2011. It draws upon James, Whitehead and Deleuze to examine experiences that support the case for a cosmos of becoming, to explore existential resentments that filter into politics partly because of these experiences, and to chart an alternative course. Recent publications include Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed; Why I Am Not A Secularist; Pluralism; and Capitalism and Christianity, American Style. This essay is the first chapter in a book underway to be entitled The Fragility of Things. William can be reached at pluma@jhu.edu

Mark Coté is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently undertaking a new research project using mobile phones to do radical empiricism on mobility, location and information. Mark can be reached at mark.cote@vu.edu.au

Jimmy Casas Klausen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he teaches political theory. Klausen has published essays on hospitality, colonialism, questions of primitivism, and critical anarchism in Polity, Journal of Politics, and Political Theory. He is currently at work on a project called “Unknown Political Bodies: Negative Anthropology, Political Theory, and Indigenous Societies.” Jimmy can be reached at klausen@wisc.edu

Gregg Santori is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Southern California, and a recent fellow at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (CSREP). Trained as a Political Theorist, his interest lies in bringing current trends in Political Theory to bear on Urban Politics and the study of race and racism. He presently has several publishing projects ‘in the pipeline’ including two book manuscripts on contemporary racism, bio-politics, and disciplinary power. Gregg can be reached at Santori@polsci.ucsb.edu

Anastasia Tataryn holds an MA in History and an LLM from York University, Canada. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the School of Law, Birkbeck at the University of London. Her current research looks at irregular migrant labour and how the notion of the ‘irregular’ relates to ideas of law, community and hospitality. Her interests include questioning critical methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding law – drawing on theatre/ performance studies, disability studies and history. Anastasia can be reached at anastaziya.t@gmail.com

Anna Terwiel is a doctoral candidate in Political Theory at Northwestern University. Her dissertation project focuses on the politics of the body, self-ownership, and alienation in Locke, Marx, and Foucault...