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Jurriaan Bendien graduated with an MA in Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and currently works as an archivist in Amsterdam. He previously compiled a bibliography of the writings of Ernest Mandel and translated a number of his articles into English. J.Bendien@wolmail.nl Mark Bould is a senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. He is the author of Reading Science Fiction (www.bloomsburymagazine.com), A Lone Star: The Cinema of John Sayles (Wall ower, 2003) and Film Noir: From Fritz Lang to Fight Club (Wall ower, 2004). He is a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism and an editorial consultant for Science Fiction Studies. Mark.Bould@bcuc.ac.uk Andrew M. Butler is Field Chair in Film Studies at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, where he also lectures in Media Studies and Creative Writing. He has been features editor of Vector: The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association since 1995 and is the author of Pocket Essentials on Philip K. Dick, Cyberpunk, Terry Pratchett and Film Studies. ambutler@enterprise.net Ana C. Dinerstein teaches Sociology at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Her research interests are the transformation of subjectivity and resistance in the context of globalisation, particularly in Argentina and Latin America. Her publications in English include Marxism and Subjectivity. Searching for the Marvellous (Common Sense, no 22, CSE, 1997); Roadblocks in Argentina (Capital & Class, no. 74, 2001); The Violence of Stability: Argentina in the 1990s in Neary, M. (ed.) (Global Humanisation, Mansell, London) and The Labour Debate. An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work, edited with Mike Neary (Ashgate, 2002). A.C.Dinerstein@bath.ac.uk Stuart Elden is a lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Durham. He is the author of Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (2001) and co-editor of Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings (forthcoming 2003). He is currently writing a book on Lefebvre. stuart@stuartelden.info

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Carl Freedman is Professor of English at Louisiana State University (USA). His books include the awarding-winning Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000) and The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture (2002). He is also the author of a book about George Orwell and of dozens of essays and reviews, and is currently at work on a book about the cultural signi cance of Richard Nixon. CFreed2780@aol.com Mike Haynes lectures in European History at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of Russia 19172000: Class and Power (2002) and has written widely on the former Soviet bloc and the transition. le1958@wlv.ac.uk Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He received his PhD from Yale in 1959 and has taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California. His most recent books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991, which won the MLA Lowell Award), Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), The Cultural Turn (1998) and A Singular Modernity (2002). He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for South Atlantic Quarterly. jameson@duke.edu Anna Kornbluh is pursuing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently working on the evolution of the concept of libidinal economy. annakornbluh@yahoo.com Ishay Landa studied history and foreign literature at Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, where he received his BA in 1996 and where, in the coming year, he will give a course in the history department. He has published in Iton 77 (Hebrew) and for the New Left Review. Since 1999, he is a fellow of the Kreitman Foundation of Advanced Graduate Students, and is curently working on his PhD. His thesis explores, from a Marxist perspective, the role played by Nietzscheanism in twentieth-century popular culture. lulandau@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Alex Law is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is coeditor of Boundaries and Identities: Nation, Politics and Culture in Scotland (Abertay Press, 2001) and is currently writing a book on The Social Geometry of Nations (Nove Science). bstal@tay.ac.uk

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Jan Law is currently completing Masters research into political communication and spin in the New Scotland. She is interested in the politics of language and teaches part-time at the University of Stirling. shtjl@tay.ac.uk Neil Maycroft is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art & Design at the Lincoln School of Art & Design. His research interests are Marxism and everyday life, especially this aspect of Henri Lefebvres writings. He is currently developing an analysis of the varied dimensions of use-value as a concept in relation to the material culture of everyday life. maycroft@lineone.net China Miville is the author of three novels, including Perdido Street Station (2000), winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Fantasy Award. He recently completed a PhD on Marxist theory and international law at the LSE. He is on the editorial board of Historical Materialism, and is a member of the Socialist Alliance and the SWP. ctm@pobox.com Steven Shaviro teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Cinematic Body (Minnesota, 1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (Serpents Tail, 1997), and Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (forthcoming). shaviro@shaviro.com Tony Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Iowa State University. He received his PhD from the State University of New York and Stony Brook after graduate studies at the universities of Tubingen and Munich. He is the author of four books: The Logic of Marxs Capital (1990); The Role of Ethics in Social Theory (1991); Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics (1993); and Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000). tonys@iastate.edu Ben Watson was introduced to revolutionary Marxism by a seminar on Nikolai Bukharins economic analysis of imperialism held by SWP members at 3, Back Hawes Mount, Leeds 6, in the summer of 1978. He joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1979. His publications include Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play (1994), Art, Class & Cleavage: Quantulumcunque Concerning Materialist Esthetix (1998) and Derek Bailey & the Story of Free Improvisation (forthcoming). A free-lance cultural irritant, he is contributor to The Wire, Hi-Fi News, Radical Philosophy and Mute. His unpublishable writings may be downloaded from www.militantesthetix.co.uk, a website he runs with his partner Esther Leslie.

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Mike Wayne lectures in Film and TV at Brunel University. His latest books are Political Film: the Dialectics of Third Cinema and The Politics of Contemporary European Cinema: Histories, Borders, Diasporas. He is a member of the Socialist Alliance. Michael.Wayne@brunel.ac.uk