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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 is National Secretary of Marxist-Humanist Initiative, a co-founder of the New SPACE, and a long time-activist in, and writer on, feminist, civil rights, and international movements for self-determination. She has been
active in solidarity work with grassroots civil society
movements in
Acheh, Indonesia
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.
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.
He is co-editor of The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics
(2004) and author of Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency (2007). 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 taught a
course on taxation and finance
last Spring at the New SPACE. He has been a self
employed financial and tax consultant since 1984. Howard's practice
specializes in the arts and entertainment fields, and he serves as the
treasurer to more than fifteen arts and cultural organizations. Howard has
taught accounting and finance at The Pratt Institute. His hobbies include
playing Howie Solo, a singer and stand up comedian
who can host your local fundraising event. He is currently researching a book
on the history of the Jewish gangster in America.
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.
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