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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.
Bre is a Toronto based organizer who has spent time on the streets and in school and is currently involved in the Toronto Anarchist Free Space and the Free Skool.
Maribel Casas-Cortés and Sebastian Cobarrubias (Producciones Translocales) From Castilla and NYC respectively with rhizomatic roots. They are currently working and studying in the PhD programs of Anthropology and Geography at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. They have been involved with different networks and organizations translocally engaging in direct action, popular education and agit/prop production, including Chicago Direct Action Network, Mexico Solidarity Network, Intergalaktica Buenos Aires, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Universidad Rural-Paulo Freire, and Peoples Global Action. They are currently working on several projects translating experiences of activist research to the current context of the US, including the “mapping the university” project with the 3Cs-Counter Cartographies Collective.
Gaye Chan is a visual artist and a Professor of photography at the University of Hawai`i. Her work is primarily inspired by and made from found images and objects -- mining their potential in making visible the invisible forces at work all around us. Chan is an exhibiting artist and a part of Nomoola and DownWind Productions.
Graeme Chesters is a writer and educator based in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. His work focuses on complexity, participation and social change.
Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires. It has participated in numerous grassroots co-research activities with unemployed workers, peasant movements, human rights groups, neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments. Their elaboration of their experience has resulted in many articles, a series of notebooks published under the title Cuadernos de Situación , and five books: Genocida en el barrio: Mesa de Escrache Popular ; La hipótesis 891: más allá de los piquetes (with MTD of Solano); Contrapoder: una introducción ; 19 y 20: apuntes para un nuevo protagonismo social ; and Universidad Trashumante: Territorios, Redes, Lenguajes (with Universidad Trashumante).
CrimethInc, sometimes known as the CrimethInc Workers’ Collective or the CrimethInc Ex-Workers’ Collective, is a non-hierarchical anarchist organization that publishes anti-authoritarian writings, and videos and leaves vague hints that it is committing non-violent crimes, most of which seem to involve leafleting. CrimethInc authors rarely sign their documents, but you can check out their webpage at CrimethInc.com.
Dave Eden is currently work on his PhD thesis, entitled “Insurrection & Exodus: a Contribution to Contemporary Anarchist Theory” at the Australian National University. His work generally involves an eclectic reading of divergent threads of anti-capitalist praxis. He also writes under the pseudonym Dave Antagonism for multiple radical publications. He has been involved in anticapitalist struggle long enough to know better, most notably the collectives Revolutionary Action in Wollongong and Treason in Canberra.
Damian Fernandez is a graduate student in History at Princeton University working on the economic and social history of the Ancient and early Medieval world. Currently he lives in Jersey City and is involved with Notas Rojas, an informal network dedicated to translating radical social movement and theoretical material into English.
Uri Gordon has spent the last five years as an activist and doctoral student in Oxford, UK. He now lives in his native Israel where he continues to be involved in radical initiatives for social justice and peace. His first book Anarchist Anxieties: Contemporary Debates in Antiauthoritarian Politics is in preparation.
David Graeber is an Associate Professor of Anthropology recently fired from Yale University. He is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology . For the last five years he has worked within the anti-capitalist and anarchist sections of the globalization movement including People's Global Action, the Direct Action Network, and the Planetary Alternatives Network. Ethnography.
Gavin Grindon is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, England, where he is studying the theoretical development of the concept of carnival as a form of radical activism. His publications include “Carnival Against Capital: A Comparison of Bakhtin, Vaneigem and Bey” in Anarchist Studies.
Harry Halpin is a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, studying Informatics and the intersection between the Web, philosophy, and linguistics. He is also the co-founder of Scotland Indymedia and erstwhile resident of the Bilston Glen Anti-Road Bypass site. In former lives he has organised summits and protests around globalization, driven computers from Maine to Chiapas, and maintained various free software packages.
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.
Brian Holmes is a cultural theorist, art critic and a founder of Université Tangente. His publications include Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era (Arkzin Communications, 2004) and Unleashing the Collective Phantom (forthcoming 2006, Autonomedia).
Ben Holtzman is an independent researcher and activist. He works as an editor in New York.
Craig Hughes is an independent scholar and activist. His research concentrates on suburban social struggles, and he is currently researching the women's liberation movement as it appeared on Long Island in the 1970s.
Sandra Jeppesen has a PhD from the English department at York University, Toronto (2005). Her dissertation was on Guerrilla Texts and anarchist cultural production. She has a Masters in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal (1997). Her first published novel, Kiss Painting (Gutter Press, 2003), explores social relationships within the anarchist milieu. She has been a member of several anarchist collectives, including Who's Emma records and books, Uprising bookstore and infoshop, Resist (Toronto), the random anarchist group, the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair collective, and the Anarchist Free University.
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. His research and teaching interests include globalization, social movements, transnational activism, new digital technologies, Spain, and Catalonia. Juris is dedicated to integrating research and practice by engaging in militant ethnography. He has also participated in several activist research networks, including the Open Space Collective, which emerged from the World Social Forum process. He is also developing a comparative ethnographic project exploring the use of new digital technologies and emerging forms of collaborative practice among media activists in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Anita Lacey is an activist and researcher living and working in Windsor, Canada. Her research fields and interests include global anti capital and justice movements, the idea and ideal of community and community spaces, particularly in regards to protest, and gendered development practices. She is passionate about activisms for social justice and about connections between people locally and globally who are in or seek communities that recognise and celebrate diversity and struggle to attain social justice in the current manifestation of globalization. This passion drives her research, writing and teaching.
Angela Mitropoulos lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in noborder campaigns and xborder. She has also written a number of essays on migration, labour and the state for Mute , Culture Machine , and other publications.
Antonio Negri is an independent researcher, communist militant, and former professor at the University of Padua. Emerging from the heretical Marxist tendencies of the autonomous worker's movements of the 60s his work has been important in understanding the changing dynamics of capitalism and the possibilities of social resistance. He has written many books including Marx Beyond Marx (1979), The Savage Anomaly (1981), Communists Like Us (with Felix Guattari, 1985), and Empire and Multitude (with Michael Hardt, 2000/2004).
Michal Osterweil is a Phd student in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has been involved in various activist research networks and projects including Global Uprisings and Explorations in Open Space (a research project on Social Forums).
Kirsty Robertson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art at Queen's University, in Ontario, Canada. She currently lives in Montreal, Québec, with her partner, two cats and a dog, and intersperses working on her dissertation with a variety of performative/activist actions, a radio show and knitting. Kirsty's research is centered on the intersections of global justice protest and visual culture, in particular embodied artistic responses, new media, and new technologies of communication. Walking through the streets of Montreal with her dog, if asked, Kirsty will often admit to wondering how a dissertation would look if knitted rather than written.
Nandita Sharma is an activist in transnational No Borders networks and an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is a part of Nomoola and DownWind Productions.
Benjamin Shepard the author/editor of two books: White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (1997) and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (2002). Starting from writing for the Bay Area Reporter in the early 1990 he worked as an organizer with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets, Times UP, the Clandestine Rebel Clown Army, the Absurd Response Team, and most recently with the Housing Works Campaign to End AIDS.
Stevphen Shukaitis is a research fellow at the University of London, Queen Mary . 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.
Sebastian Touza is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. His dissertation, “Antipedagogies for Liberation,” is a critique of the emancipatory potential of intellectual interventions seeking to expand intelligence, raise consciousness, and facilitate communication. In the late 1980s Sebastian was involved in the Argentinean student movement. Recently he has collaborated with Nate Holdren in the translation of one book and several articles by Colectivo Situaciones.
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.
