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JEAN-LUC NANCY is professor of philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch,
Strasbourg. Among his many books, he is the author of the following
titles published by Stanford University Press: Multiple Arts (2006); A Fi-
nite Thinking (2003); The Speculative Remark (2001); Being Singular Plural
(2000); The Muses (1996); The Birth to Presence (1993); and The Experience
of Freedom (1993).
KELLY OLIVER is W. Alton Jones Chair and professor of philosophy at
Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than fifty articles and
fifteen books, including The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic
Theory of Oppression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004);
Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (Minneapolis: Uni-
versity of Minnesota Press, 2002); Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minne-
apolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001); Subjectivity Without Subjects:
From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998); Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture (New
York: Routledge, 1997); Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to "the
Feminine" (New York: Routledge, 1995); and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling
the Double-Bind (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

JAMES PHILLIPS is an ARC Australian research fellow in the School of
Philosophy and History at the University of New South Wales. He is the
author of The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 2007); a n d Heideggers Volk: Between National
Socialism and Poetry (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005).
ALISON ROSS teaches in the Centre for Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. She is the author of
The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-
Labarthe, and Nancy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).
MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO is professor of political science at the University
of Hawaii. Among his recent publications are Methods and Nations: Cul-
tural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (New York: Routledge, 2004);
and Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006). He is currently complet-
ing a manuscript entitled Cinematic Geopolitics,

CECILIA SJÖHOLM is associate professor in the Program of Aesthetics at
South Stockholm University College and the author of The Antigone Com-
plex (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).