Suzi Adams
is an Honorary Senior Researcher in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Flinders University and a Managing Editor of the International Journal of Social Imaginaries (Brill). Her recent research includes “What are Social Imaginaries?: A Pathway through the Labyrinth” and “Chaos, Kosmos, and the Simulacrum: Reflections on Castoriadis, Religion, and Society as an Imaginary Institution”, both in the International Journal of Social Imaginaries vols 2:2 and 3:2, respectively, as well as “The Being of the Political and Instituting Doing in Question: Reflections on Johann P. Arnason’s Thought” in eds. L. Dunaj, J. Smith, and K. Mertel, Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s Macro-Social Theory, London, Routledge, 2023. Adams is the author of Castoriadis’ Ontology: Being and Creation (Fordham University Press 2011) and Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts (Bloomsbury 2014); the editor of Ricoeur and Castoriadis in discussion (Rowman and Littlefield 2017) and co-editor of Debating Imaginal Politics (Rowman and Littlefield 2022) and Social Imaginaries (Rowman and Littlefield 2019).
Craig Browne
is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney. He is the author of Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique and History (Routledge 2023), Critical Social Theory (Sage 2017), Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison (Anthem Press 2017), and, with Andrew Lynch, Taylor and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh University Press 2018). He co-edited, with Justine McGill, Violence in France and Australia (Sydney University Press 2010), and with Paula Diehl, a Special Issue of Social Epistemology: “Conceptualizing the Political Imaginary” (2019). His next book theorizes the dialectic of control.
Vrasidas Karalis
holds the Chair of Sir Nicholas Laurantos in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. He has translated Patrick White’s Voss and The Vivisector. He is the editor of Modern Greek Studies (Australian and New Zealand). His main publications in English include On Patrick White’s Dilemmas (Brandl & Schlesinger 2025), Farewell to Robert (Brandl & Schlesinger 2023), Theo Angelopoulos Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2023), The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos (Berghahn Books 2021), Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B. Tauris 2017), Reflections on Presence (re.Press 2016), The Demons of Athens
Peter Murphy
is the author of Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity (Brill 2023), The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (Routledge 2020), Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age (Routledge 2019), Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society (Sage 2017), Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Societies (Ashgate 2015; Routledge 2016), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (Ashgate 2012; Routledge 2016) and Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (Prometheus/Humanity Books 2001) as well as the co-author of Science Fiction and Narrative Form (Bloomsbury 2023), Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (Bloomsbury 2004), and the Peter Lang trilogy Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (2009), Global Creation (2010) and Imagination (2010). He is Adjunct Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne and was formerly Professor of Arts and Society at James Cook University in Queensland.
John Rundell
is Adjunct Professor (Humanities and Social Sciences) at La Trobe University and Principal Honorary in The School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and has published widely on the topics of the imagination and modernity. His most recent books are Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom (Routledge 2020), Critical Theories and the Budapest School (with Jonathan Pickle, Routledge 2018), and Imaginaries of Modernity (Routledge 2017). A social theorist and philosopher, his broad range of interests are reflected in the volumes he has edited including Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (Routledge 2018), Classical Readings in Culture and Civilization (Routledge 2014), Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller (Rowman and Littlefield 2010), Recognition, Work, Politics (Brill 2007), Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy (Brill 2004) and Critical Theory After Habermas (Brill 2004).
is Associate Professor in Sociology at Federation University, Victoria. A historical sociologist and social theorist, he is the author of works on Atlantic modernity (Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity, Brill 2006), inter-civilizational engagement (Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age, Manchester University Press 2017) and Western hemisphere social institutions and imaginaries (American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas, Rowman and Littlefield 2023). In addition, he is a co-editor of Civilization, modernity, and critique: Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s macro-social theory (Routledge 2023), Social imaginaries: Critical Interventions (Rowman and Littlefield 2019), Debating Imaginal Politics: Dialogues with Chiara Bottici (Rowman and Littlefield 2022), and Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy (Brill 2004).