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that ran from Kirkuk to Haifa. Havrelock sits on the International Advisory
Committee of Ecopeace Middle East.
Brian Holmes is a cultural critic who would rather not inflate his own persona.
His doctorate in Romance languages from the University of California, Berke-
ley, encouraged him to leave the academy and move to Europe for twenty years,
where he participated in grassroots revolt, subversive art, and autonomous
Marxist social theory. His work with the counter-globalization movements,
along with dozens of articles on art, activism, and political economy, has been
rendered obsolete by the enormity of the phenomena lumped into the term
Anthropocene. Holmes finds his new Chicago home an ideal site for under-
standing and resisting the social structures that generate planetary dysphoria.
Elizabeth R. Johnson is a visiting assistant professor in environmental studies
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her work brings political geography
together with science and technology studies (STS) to show how advances in
the biosciences make nonhuman life a productive participant within global
security strategies and circuits of global capitalism. Her writing has appeared
in Theory, Culture and Society, the Annals of the Association of Amercian Geog-
raphers, Society and Space, and Epemera.
Toby Craig Jones is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University,
New Brunswick. He is the author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water
Forged Modern Saudi Arabia (2010) and Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water,
and Environmental Crisis (2015). He is currently working on a book titled
Americas Oil Wars.
Anja Kanngieser is a Vice-Chancellors Fellow at the Australian Centre for
Cultural Environmental Research. She is the author of Experimental Politics
and the Making of Worlds (2013). Her work looks to the intersections of political
economy and ecology, sound and social movements; her current project uses
sound to explore self-determined responses by frontline communities in the
Pacific to climate change.
Sara Nelson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, Envi-
ronment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores
the political economy of conservation and environmental management in
neoliberal capitalism. Her work has been published in the journalsAnti-
pode,Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, andProgress in
Human Geography.
Matteo Pasquinelli is a visiting professor in media theory at the University of
Arts and Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of
the Commons (2008) and editor of the anthologies Gli algoritmi del capitale
(The Algorithms of Capital; 2014) and Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelli-
gence and Its Traumas (2015).
Karen Pinkus is professor of romance studies and comparative literature at
Cornell University. She is the author most recently of Fuel: A Speculative Dic-
tionary (2016). In addition to her ongoing work on the humanities and cli-
mate change, she is completing a monograph on automation and autonomy,
machines, and cinema in 1960s Italy.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender
Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of five books exploring late
liberal governance, the most recent Geontologies: A Requiem to Late
Liberalism(2016). She is also a founding member of the Karrabing Film
Collective and former editor ofPublic Culture.
Jason Read is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South-
ern Maine. He is the author ofThe Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Pre-
history of the Present(2003) andThe Politics of Transindividuality (2015/2016).He
blogs atwww.unemployednegativity.com.
Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Universit Libre de
Bruxelles. Her books range from history and philosophy of sciences
(Cosmopolitics, I and II [201011]) to metaphysics (Thinking with Whitehead
[2011]) and political intervention (Capitalist Sorcery [2011] and In Catastrophic
Times [2015]).
Imre Szeman is professor of communications and English language and liter-
ature at the University of Waterloo. He conducts research on and teaches in
the areas of energy and environmental studies, literary and cultural theory,
and social and political philosophy. His recent works include Fueling Culture:
One Hundred and One Words for Energy and Environment (2017), Petrocultures:
Oil, Politics, Culture (2017); Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2017); and Glo-
balization, Culture, Energy: Selected Essays, 20002013 (2017).
Miriam Tola works at the intersection of political theory and feminist and deco-
lonial environmental humanities. Her work has appeared in Hypatia, Theory
and Event, and PhaenEx. She is currently working on a book manuscript on
the politics of the common. Tola teaches at Northeastern University.
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