Guido Starosta teaches sociology at the University of Warwick (UK). His research interests are in the problematic of subjectivity and the dialectical method in Marx’s critique of political economy, and in the political economy of capitalist development in Latin America.

Giuseppe Tassone is Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Balamand (Lebanon). He is the author of The Tale of Progress: A Study on the Idea of Progress in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Critical Theory (Mellen Press, 2002). He has published articles on Adorno’s ethics and metaphysics and on the relationship between ethics, politics, social theory and philosophy of history. He is currently working on a project on the philosophy of history from Hegel to Adorno.

Alberto Toscano is a lecturer in sociology and a member of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (Palgrave, 2006), translator of Alain Badiou’s The Century (Polity, 2007) and co-editor his Theoretical Writings (Continuum, 2004). He has also co-translated Antonio Negri’s The Political Descartes (Verso, 2007). He has published several articles on contemporary philosophy, ontology and social theory. He is currently working on two projects: an investigation into the persistence of the idea of communism in contemporary thought and a genealogical and theoretical inquiry into the concept of fanaticism.
Personal website:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/sociology/staff/toscano.php
Email: a.toscano@gold.ac.uk

Peter Thomas is currently based at the University of Amsterdam.