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Stanley Aronowitz teaches sociology and
urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and directs the Center for the
Study of Culture, Technology and Work. He has written more than 200 articles
for encyclopedias, book chapters, journals, magazines and
newspapers. The 23 books he has written or edited include False
Promises (1973); Science as Power (1988); The Jobless Future
(1994), with William DiFazio; Implicating Empire (2003), co-edited
with Heather Guatney; How Class Works (2003); and Just Around the
Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (forthcoming, Spring
2005, Temple University Press). Currently, Aronowitz is working on a
biography of C.Wright Mills for Columbia University Press. Erika Biddle is an artist, editor and writer living in New York City. A founding member of Artists in Dialogue, which is committed to the co-articulation of art and politics, she also works with the radical book publisher Autonomedia. Her video work has been shown in such venues as White Box, Capsule Gallery, Artists Space, Diorama Arts Center, the Cinema Nouvelle Generation Film Festival, Guestroom, and the DUMBO Short Film and Video Festival.
Roz Bologh
is professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island
and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Dialectical
Phenomenolgy: Marx’s Method, Love or Greatness: Max Weber and Masculine
Thinking, A Feminist Inquiry, as well as numerous articles. She is the
vice chair and grievance counselor at the College of Staten Island Chapter of
the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) CUNY. Jack Z. Bratich is assistant professor in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His work focuses on theories of power, culture and subjectivity. He is co-editor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and has published articles on conspiracy theories, the politics of rationality, and infowar. He is currently working on a cultural study of secrecy. Stephen Eric Bronner is Senior Editor of Logos, an interdisciplinary internet journal (www.logosjournal.com), and a professor at Rutgers University. His many works include Socialism Unbound; A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy, and the ‘Protocols of Zion ; Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times; Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement; and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (editor and translator) . Crystal DeBoise has developed and runs one of the only funded anti-human trafficking programs in New York City. She has been a counselor and advocate for survivors of gender-based violence since 1997 and a member of a variety of organizations, including the Direct Action Network and the New York City Social Forum. Jeannette Gabriel is a doctoral student in unemployed workers history at the CUNY Grad Center. She works with NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee (http://www.nj-civilrights.org) which has been fighting against the illegal detention and torture of immigrants since 9/11. Jeannette is also a member of the Workers Democracy Network (http://www.workers democracy.org). She recently taught a class on Immigrant Workers' History in the United States at the New SPACE. Loren Goldner is a writer and activist living in New York City. He spent the fall of 2005 in South Korea preparing a short history of the Korean working class since the 1980's. Goldner's work is available at the Break Their Haughty Power web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner. David Graeber, assistant professor of Anthropology at Yale University, is author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. He is presently writing an ethnography of direct action and works with the Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) network. Andrej Grubacic, a historian and social critic, works with the Planetary Alternatives Network, Z Communications and Peoples Global Action. Grubacic has been active in the post-Yugoslav movement, a coalition of anti-authoritarian collectives called DSM! and is currently the European convener of the Peoples Global Action Network. As a result of his political activism, Grubacic was forced to leave the University of Belgrade and move to SUNY Binghamton. Robin Hahnel has been active in many social movements and organizations over the past forty years, most recently with the Southern Maryland Greens and Green Party USA. He is Professor of Economics at American University and co-creator with Michael Albert of the radical alternative to capitalism "participatory economics." Charles Herr, a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Program in Psychoanalysis, is a clinical psychologist and interpersonal psychoanalyst. He has life-long interests in the work of Erich Fromm, the humanism of Marx, and the radical transformation of society. He is also involved in studying the work of Raya Dunayevskaya, Paulo Freire, Eugene Gendlin and Marshall Rosenberg. Anne Jaclard, a feminist and Marxist-Humanist, has been active for six years in solidarity work with grassroots civil society movements in Acheh, Indonesia. She is currently involved in humanitarian relief for Acheh, and in solidarity work and dialog with feminist groups in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the years, she has been active in Black, women’s, anti-war and Latin American solidarity movements. Jaclard writes on revolutionary movements and theory for the newspaper News & Letters. Andrew Kliman has taught courses on Capital, Volume I and John Holloway’s Change the World Without Taking Power at the New SPACE. A professor of economics at Pace University, he has published extensively on Capital, crisis theory, and value theory. Co-editor of The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics (2004), he has recently finished a book that reclaims Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency. Many of Kliman's writings are available at his website: http://akliman.squarespace.com. Louis Kontos teaches sociology at Long Island University. He holds a masters' degree in Social and Political Thought from York University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northeastern University. His areas of interest include social theory, deviance, movements, and political economy. Joel Kovel is presently Editor-in-Chief of Capitalism
Nature Socialism and Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. He is
the author of nine books, the most recent being The Enemy Of Nature
(Zed, 2002). He ran for US Senate from NY in 1998 on the Green Party line,
and for the Green Party Presidential nomination in 2000. Eric Laursen is an
independent journalist, activist and anarchist living in New York City. He
has written for a wide variety of publications including Practical Anarchy, the Village
Voice, In These Times, The New Formulation, The Nation, Institutional Investor, the AICPA
Journal of Accountancy, and the forthcoming issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. He has worked with the NYC
Direct Action Network, the International Solidarity Movement, NoRNC Coalition,
and other activist networks and alliances. Laursen is currently completing a
history of the Social Security privatization wars. Alan W. Moore was active in the artists’ groups Colab and ABC No Rio in the
1980s. He edited ABC No Rio: Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery with
Marc Miller in 1985. His doctoral thesis (Graduate Center, City University of
New York 2000) concerned New York City artists’ organizations between 1969
and 1984. Recent work includes: “Political Economy as Subject and Form in
Modern Art” for the fall 2004 issue of Review of Radical Political
Economics and “Being There: The
Tribeca Neighborhood of Franklin Furnace” (with Debra Wacks) for a
forthcoming issue of The Drama Review. Bertell Ollman is a professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. He has published a dozen books on Marxist theory and socialism, the most recent of which is Dance of The Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. For his writings see: www.dialecticalmarxism.com. Howard F. Seligman Stevphen Shukaitis is a research fellow at the University of Leicester
Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy. His research focuses on the
constitution of collective identities through projects of worker
self-management and the changing nature of labor and production under
post-Fordist capitalism. He is a member of the Ever Reviled Records Worker
Collective and the Planetary Autonomist Network. For more information on his
writing and research please see
www.refusingstructures.net. Tom Smith teaches
Sociology at Brooklyn College, and has a doctorate in political theory from
the City University of New York. He is a member of the NY Working People's
Voice newspaper collective. He is also serving currently as Treasurer for the
Anthony Gronowicz for Mayor, Green Party campaign. Alex Steinberg taught a course on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit last Fall at the New SPACE. Steinberg holds an MA in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research; he left the PhD program after participating in the student takeover of the New School following the Kent State massacre in 1970. Steinberg is facilitator of a philosophy and literature discussion group in Brooklyn and author of several essays, including "The Case of Martin Heidegger" and "From Alienation to Revolution: A Defense of Marx's Theory of Alienation". He has also served as a member of the WBAI Local Station Board (2004) and as Chairperson of the WBAI LSB Programming Committee. Bill Weinberg is an award-winning journalist, author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso 2000), and editor of the on-line World War 4 Report (http://ww4report.com). He is currently working on a new book on Plan Colombia and indigenous struggles in the Andes. He also co-hosts the weekly Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (http://www.morc.info), an anarchist variety show, Tuesdays at midnight on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City. |