Biographies

Emiliana Armano is activist in the no global and no war movements. She has a degree in Political Sciences at University of Turin with a thesis in Industrial Sociology with Romano Alquati about Taylorisation of intellectual work; currently attending a Phd in Labour Sciences at Universita Statale of Milan. Research interests in models of work in information and communication societies, paradigms of post-fordism, forms and new rights of digital work, network organization and flexibility of labor markets.

Steffen Boehm is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Essex. His work touches at the boundaries of academia, art and activism. He has been involved in various alternative publishing initiatives: he is co-founder and member of the editorial collective of the independent journal ephemera: and co-founder and co-editor of the independent press mayflybooks.

Jack Z. Bratich is assistant professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. He has written articles that apply autonomist thought to such topics as audience studies, reality tv, secession, and popular secrecy. In Fall 2005, he co-taught (with Stevphen Shukaitis) “Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism,” the inaugural course in the Bluestockings Popular Education program. He is currently finishing his book on conspiracy panics and political rationality.

Heidi Brush

Nick Butler joined the University of Leicester Management Centre as a PhD student in October 2005. Prior to this, he studied Social and Political Thought (MA) at the University of Sussex, Brighton, and English and Comparative Literature (BA) at the University of Warwick, Coventry. His research interests include the history of the Immigration Removal Centre, political arithmetic and moral statistics.

Ayça Çubukçu

Gemma Ubasart i Gonzalez

Nate Holdren is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Nate has contributed numerous translations and other material to various electronic projects.

Tadzio Mueller

Otonom is an autonomist publishing collective and activist group from Turkey.

Matteo Pasquinelli is the editor of Rekombinant and author of Media Activism (Derive Approdi, Rome 2002), he has been involved in several projects around net activism and cultural jamming (from Luther Blissett to Telestreet). Recently he co-curated the Art and Politics of Netporn conference at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam (2005).

Raffaele Sciortino is an activist in no global and no war movements. He has a degree in Philosophy at University of Turin with a thesis on Italian autonomous Marxism. Currently he is a Phd student in Political Sciences at Universita Statale of Milan. Research interests in globalisation and new world order theories in the light of marxist approaches, social movements, immigration studies, leftist communist tradition in Germany and Italy.

Stefan Skrimshire

Stevphen Shukaitis is a research fellow at the University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy. He is a member of Ever Reviled Records, the Autonomedia Editorial Collective, and the Planetary Alternatives Network. He seeks to develop non-vanguardist forms of social research as part of the global conspiracy against capitalism.

Kevin Van Meter currently attends the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studying political theory and everyday resistance. He is a member of Team Colors, a New York based collective, which, in both workshops and articles is seeking to address ways to explore strategic interventions in everyday life.

Kevin Van Meter is a community organizer and researcher originally from Long Island, New York.   Recently completing his Masters degree in Political Theory at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a thesis titled “The Silent Guerillas: War and Power in Everyday Life.”   His research focuses on the everyday resistance and its importance for radical community organizing.   Van Meter appears, along with two co-authors, in the forthcoming AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation // Collective Theorization edited by David Graeber and Stevphen Shukaitis, with a article titled "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism.”   Currently residing in Brooklyn, he is a volunteer at Bluestockings Books and a proud member of the Park Slope Food Coop.

Raimundo Viejo Vinas

Colin Williams is professor of Work Organisation in the University of Leicester Management Centre and a coordinator of the Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies (CAOS). His interests are in imagining and enacting alternative work practices, the future of work and community economic development.

J. Zoe Wilson

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