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Dr. Anke Strauß is an organisation researcher interested in relationships between the art and the business sphere, specifically with regard to differing types of knowing, inter-disciplinary collaboration and changing modes of organizing (alternative) work-lives. Having worked at the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB) on artistic interventions in organisations, she is currently at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Together with Christina Ciupke she is working on a project founded by the Volkswagen Foundation on artist-run organizations and the performativity of utopian thinking for (re-)organizing cultural labor.

Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher, ethicist, educator, and activist working in Washington, DC. She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. In 2019/20, she is additionally the DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics. Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race. Her research is importantly informed by her study of Marx’s work, and focuses on the ways in which economic and social arrangements can inhibit or promote the realization of values such as freedom, equality, and human development. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic, “Marx and Morality.” Dr. Wills received her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Princeton University in 2002.
Geo Maher is an organizer, writer, radical political theorist and Visiting Associate Profesor at Vassar College.  He has been Visiting Scholar at the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary, the Hemispheric Institute in New York and the Institute of Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and has taught previously at Drexel University, U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. Hons. and M.A. in Social and Political Sciences from St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley.His first book, a history of revolutionary movements in Venezuela entitled WE CREATED CHÁVEZ: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION, was published by Duke University Press in 2013. He recently published a short follow-up on the political dynamics of the post-Chávez era entitled BUILDING THE COMMUNE: RADICAL DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA (Jacobin-Verso, 2016). His third book, DECOLONIZING DIALECTICS, was published in 2017, as the first volume in the Duke University Press book series RADICAL AMÉRICAS, which he co-edits with Bruno Bosteels. His recent books include A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE (Verso, 2021) and ANTI-COLONIAL ERUPTIONS (University of California Press, 2021).

Professor Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specialises on the problem of violence. He is the author of some fifteen books and edited volumes, along with over one hundred academic and media articles. Throughout 2015-17, Brad was invited to lead a dedicated series for The New York Times (The Stone) on violence. He is currently the lead editor for dedicated section on violence and the arts/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books. 
In 2018, Brad's "Portraits of Violence" book won a prestigious Independent Publishers Award. His books and articls have been translated into many languages including, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Turkish, Finnish, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean.  
Brad regularly makes television and radio appearances. He was the inaugural guest on the comedian Russell Brand's podcast show Under the Skin, which debuted at No.1 on the iTunes charts in United Kingdom and Australia & No. 3 in USA and Canada. It held its No.1 download positions in both respective countries for over a week. Along with providing academic advice, he continues to feature as a guest on a number of episodes for the programme. 
Brad is also a regular guest on Russell Brand's "True News" series The Trews, where they analyse worldly events. 
​Brad is founder/director of the Histories of Violence project. In this capacity, he has recently directed a global research initiative on the theme of "Disposable Life" to interrogate the meaning of mass violence in the 21st Century. Previous to this, his co-directed movie "Ten Years of Terror" (with Simon Critchley) received international acclaim, screening in the Solomon K. Guggenheim museum, New York during September 2011.
​Brad works closely with a number of reputable global organisations to address the problem of violence in publicly engaging ways. Recently he co-directed a forum in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva titled "Old Pain, New Demons", on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (2016). Brad also acts as a consultant on violence for Opera North, UK, co-directing a number of initiatives on the theatrical and performative nature of violence. 
Brad has been a visiting fellow at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, New York (2013-14) and distinguished society fellow at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2017). 
Brad regularly writes and features on many prominent news sources such as Newsweek, the Guardian, Independent, BBC, LBC radio, World Financial Review, Al Jazeera, TruthOut, Counter-Punch and Social Europe. His projects have also been featured in many international outlets including NME, Business Standard, The Telegraph, The Indian Times, Pakistan Today, Hamilton Spectator,  CBS news, El Pais, and Art Forum to name a few
Brad's latest books include "The Quarantine Files" (Los Angeles Review of Books Press, 2020); "The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in the Age of Total Violence" (Los Angeles Review of Books Press, 2019); "Violence: Humans in Dark Times" (with Natasha Lennard, Citylights, 2018); "Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought" (with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2017); "Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking" (with Sean Michael Wilson, New Internationalist, 2016); "Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle" (with Henry Giroux, Citylights: 2015), "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously" (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014), "Liberal Terror" (Polity Press, 2013), and "Deleuze & Fascism: Security - War - Aesthetics" (with Julian Reid, Routledge, 2013).
He is currently working on a number of book projects, including "Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity" (Columbia University Press, 2021); "Violence: An Anthology" (with Adrian Parr, Pluto Press, 2021); & "State of Disappearance" (McGill-Queens University

The brilliant Professor Camila Vergara speaks about the revolutionary possibilities of plebian power, mass democracy, and constituent politics and resistance in Chile.

Ciara Cremin teaches in sociology at university of Auckland and leads the gender studies programme there. She’s written a number of books that bring together Marx and psychoanalytic theory to map the human condition in capitalism today. Her books include Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism and since coming out Man-Made Woman and now The Future is Feminine.

Ayesha Hameed is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London in London, UK. Since 2014 Hameed’s multi-chapter project 'Black Atlantis' has looked at the Black Atlantic and its afterlives in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems and in outer space. Through videos, audio essays and performance lectures, she examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of an active archive; and time travel as an historical method. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel(Sternberg/MIT forthcoming 2021). She is currently Co-Programme Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London.