Mathew Abbott
is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Federation University Australia. His research draws on figures from modern European philosophy to engage contemporary debates in politics and aesthetics. His current focus is a project on the implications of self-consciousness for ecology and the place of our species in nature. Mathew is the editor of Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality (Routledge 2018). He is the author of Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh 2016) and The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (Edinburgh 2014). He is also President of the FedUni Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union. [m.abbott@federation.edu.au]
Daniel Albarracin
is a professor from the Department of Applied Economics II at the University of Seville, where he teaches courses on Economics, the Spanish labour market, Political Economy, and public policy. He previously lectured at the Complutense University of Madrid and Carlos III University. He is a contributor and advisor to Viento Sur magazine. He also has worked extensively outside of the academy as an activist, social researcher and advisor for Spanish Trade Unions, the European Parliament and the Andalusian Court of Auditors. [dalbarracin@us.es]
Martín Arboleda
is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He obtained his PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research explores the political economy of globalised extraction, as well as the political and intellectual history of Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. His fields of interest include global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the book Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020), as well as of Gobernar la utopía: sobre la planificación y el poder popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021). His research has been published in several scholarly journals as well as in non-academic outlets. [martin.arboleda@udp.cl]
Francisca Benítez
is a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and History at Universidad Diego Portales, and the Master’s Program in Economics and Public Policy at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile. She is an editor of Cuadernos de Teoría Social. Her research centres on the fundamental question: why and how do some lives count as more valuable than others in everyday interactions? Drawing on Vania Bambirra’s work on how structural dependency materialises in the exclusion and invisibilisation of women, she examines mechanisms of historical exclusion and their intersection with multiple forms of violence: gender-based, xenophobic, and racist. Her research interests include the political economy of inequality, gender studies, and the ethnography of social reproduction. She has collaborated on FONDECYT, FONDART, and FONDAP projects. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Political Processes and Institutions at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, where she conducts ethnographic research on social valuations of life in the emergency waiting room of Santiago’s Hospital de Urgencia Asistencia Pública. [francisca.benitez@mail.udp.cl]
Paddy Gordon
teaches Cultural Studies and Early Childhood Education at Victoria University in Melbourne. His research applies a humanist Marxist lens to contemporary debates in cultural studies and discourse analysis. His work has appeared in Jacobin, Arena, New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, the Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, and Overland, among others. [paddygordon00@gmail.com]
Ken Kawashima
is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and the author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Duke University Press, 2009), co-editor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (Cornell University Press, 2014), and the English translator of Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis (Brill, 2020). He teaches courses on the history of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism in East Asia; on everyday life; on racism and fascism; and on Marxist theory. [ken.kawashima@utoronto.ca]
Philippe Le Goff
is an associate professor at the University of Warwick and the author of Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment (Bloomsbury, 2020). He works mainly on modern and contemporary intellectual history and political theory. [P.Le-Goff@warwick.ac.uk]
Matteo Polleri
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire Sophiapol of the University of Paris Nanterre and the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi of Turin. He did a bi-national PhD, between Nanterre and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, and taught at the University of Paris Nanterre, Paris VIII Saint-Denis, and Paris Lumières. His work is dedicated to a cross-reading of Marx and Foucault, and more broadly to the relationship between Marxism and Poststructuralism. He is the author of Marxismi foucaultiani: una mappa critica (2024) and Marx or Foucault: From Adversity to Heresy (forthcoming). [matteo.polleri@sns.it]
David Rowley
is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, having retired after teaching Russian history there and at the University of North Dakota for twenty-five years. He is co-editor with Evgeni Pavlov of the Historical Materialism/Brill ‘Bogdanov Library’, and has translated a number of Bogdanov’s works, including three that have appeared so far: The Philosophy of Living Experience (Brill, 2016), Empiriomonism (Brill, 2020), and Toward a New World (Brill, 2022). He has also published several articles on Bogdanov’s philosophy. [rowleyd@uwplatt.edu]
Mike Taber
is the current director of the Comintern Publishing Project. He has edited or co-edited a number of volumes in the Historical Materialism Book Series: The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, 1922–1923, The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920–1922: Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports, The Founding of the Red Trade Union International: Proceedings and Resolutions of the First Congress, 1921, and the forthcoming Revolutionary Youth: Proceedings and Resolutions of the Communist Youth International, 1919–1923. He has also edited, for Haymarket Books, Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889–1912, Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900–1910, and Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin. [mikestaber@yahoo.com]
Peter D. Thomas
is a professor in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University. He has studied and worked at the University of Queensland, Freie Universität Berlin, L’Università ‘Federico II’, Naples, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Vienna. He is the author of Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2023) and The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Brill, 2009). He helped edit In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (Brill, 2013), Encountering Althusser: Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013), and The Government of Time. Theories of Plural Temporality in the Marxist Tradition (Brill, 2017). [peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk]
