contributors

Raffaele Sciortino (1963) graduated in Philosophy at University of Turin, 1989 (dissertation about Italian Autonomist Marxism) and holds a PhD in Political Studies at the State University of Milan. As an independent researcher, his interests include Geopolitics and U.S. Grand Strategy, critical theories of globalization in Marxist perspective, new social movements and populism.

His main publications are: Obama nella crisi globale, 2010; Eurocrisi, Eurobond, lotta sul debito, 2011; Un passaggio oltre il bipolarismo. Il rapprochement sino-americano 1969-72, 2012. Recently he published I dieci anni che sconvolsero il mondo. Crisi globale e geopolitica dei neopopulismi, 2019 and an essay on Romano Alquati.

e-mail: rafkurz@yahoo.it

Emanuele Leonardi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. His research interests include political ecology, working-class environmentalism and climate justice movements. He currently works on Just Transition and Circular Economy, especially in connection with H2020 project JUST2CE. He is board member of the European Society of Ecological Economics. Articles of his have been published in important journals such as Ecological Economics, Globalizations, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Sociologia del Lavoro, e Sociologia Urbana e Rurale.

Jaime R. Brenes Reyes is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature. His research examines fantastic literature through the lenses of Julio Cortázar and Italo Calvino. Using an analogy of a seizure, he argues that the medium of the fantastic is the seizure effect which impacts the reader who yearns to be part of the storyworld. He is also involved in the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador (https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/), a collaborative and community-participatory research project that aims at documenting the history of the Salvadoran Civil War and prevent future violence. Outside school, Jaime dedicates time to migrant workers activism, having fun with his kids and walking with coffee.

michelle liu (they/she) is a non-architect with a BFA in Visual Arts and MA in Theory and Criticism. They are interested in abolitionist imaginaries, fugitive infrastructures, oceanic poetics, slow militancies and riotous possibilities towards collective liberation.

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, is the author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (Chicago: University of Illinois, 1999) and Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (London: Pluto Press, 2015), and has also written on the video and computer game industry, the uses of the Internet by social movements and theories of technology. Two recent books are co-authorships: with Svitlana Matviyenko, Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press 2019), and with Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff, Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto Press 2019).

Svitlana Matviyenko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and co-author, with Nick Dyer-Witheford, of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (University of Minnestota Press, 1999). She is currently in Ukraine, in her home town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, and blogs from there.

Rodrigo Nunes is professor of modern and contemporary philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks, of numerous articles in publications such as Les Temps Modernes, Radical Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Jacobin, Al Jazeera and The Guardian, and, most recently, of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation (Verso 2021). He has been involved as a an organizer and popular educator in several initiatives in Brazil and in Europe, including the early meetings of the World Social Forum.

Alessandra (Allie) Mularoni is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. She writes about the ethical and political dimensions of artificial intelligence and biotechnology. Her past life as an artist can be seen in the pages of this website.