Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff, Professor of Transdisciplinary Ecological Leadership, has published dozens of interdisciplinary books and articles on critical philosophy, climate justice, art, epigenetics, gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies, including the critically acclaimed Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era and Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene.

Alhadeff’s theoretical and visual work is the subject of documentaries for international films and public television. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Pacifica Radio, NPR, and the New Art Examiner. Alongside Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Vandana Shiva, Alhadeff received the Random Kindness Community Resilience Leadership Award, 2020. Her work has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, James E. Hansen, Eve Ensler, Avital Ronell, David Orr, Alphonso Lingis, Lucy Lippard, Henry Giroux, and Paul Hawken, among other activists, scholars, and artists.

Katia Belousova completed her PhD at Rice University (2012) with a degree in Cultural Anthropology and an additional certification in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is interested in alternatives in medicine, education, and lifestyles both as an academic and an activist. She has multiple publications on the practices of reproduction, intentional communities, and utopian projects, and she helped organise various alternative education initiatives in New York City.

For almost 20 years she has been teaching at the City University of New York, where she teaches courses in Cultural and Medical Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, and Russian Studies. She is a world traveller who considers deep immersion during her travels an important part of her job.

Clayton Crockett is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at GCAS. His work spans continental philosophy of religion, political theology, psychoanalytic theory, and new materialism, with a sustained focus on questions of energy.

He is the author of Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology (Columbia University Press, 2022), Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism (Fordham University Press, 2018), Deleuze Beyond Badiou (Columbia University Press, 2013), and Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism (Columbia University Press, 2011), as well as Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism, co-written with Jeffrey W. Robbins. He co-edits the Insurrections series at Columbia University Press and is a Fellow of the Westar Institute and its Seminar on God and the Human Future.

Mario D’Amato is a scholar of Buddhist philosophy whose work centres on the translation and interpretation of Sanskrit doctrinal texts from the Yogācāra school — the tradition that developed a distinctively Buddhist conception of the unconscious. His research reads that tradition alongside Hegel, semiotics, and above all psychoanalysis, treating Buddhist thought not as an object of area study but as a live philosophical interlocutor for contemporary Continental theory.

He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2000, working in the philosophy of religion, and teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College, where his courses range across Buddhist philosophy and ethics, Sanskrit, semiotics, psychoanalytic theories of religion, and the philosophy of religion.

He is the author of a study and annotated translation of the fourth-century treatise Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga), together with Vasubandhu’s commentary (Columbia / American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2012), and co-editor of Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, 2009). His articles on Buddhist thought have appeared in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, Semiotica, and the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, among others.

Jamie is a lecturer in philosophy and literature at GCAS. His research happens at the intersections of Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Analytic Philosophy. His PhD, which he is currently editing for prospective publication, was an investigation into the historical deconstruction of subjectivity in Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and Agamben, with a view to constructing an alternative form-of-life — the useless self — out of the ruins of the metaphysical subject.

His latest article is forthcoming in April 2026 in Angelaki, on “Exhaustion Beyond Being,” and will serve as a prelude to a larger research project into Ontological Idleness. He is currently working on this project after having been awarded a writing residency at Susimetsa in Estonia. He lives in Bristol, UK, and teaches on various topics in philosophy and literature.

Creston Davis works at the intersection of continental philosophy and theology, with sustained attention to political theology, critical theory, Girardian accounts of violence and mimesis, and the question of what a genuinely emancipatory institution might look like. He is the founder of the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.

He earned his PhD in philosophical theology from the University of Virginia, following graduate work at Duke and Yale and study at Oxford. He has published with MIT Press, Columbia University Press, and Duke University Press, including Theology and the Political: The New Debate (Duke, 2005) and The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (MIT, 2009), the latter a debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek. As a graduate student he founded and co-edited the New Slant series at Duke University Press with Philip Goodchild and Kenneth Surin; he went on to create Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture at Columbia University Press, which he co-edits with Žižek, Clayton Crockett, and Jeffrey Robbins.

Bracha L. Ettinger is an artist, philosopher, and supervising psychoanalyst, and the originator of matrixial theory — a paradigm for rethinking subjectivity, trauma, and the feminine beyond the phallic structure of Lacanian thought. Marcel Duchamp Chair at the European Graduate School and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at GCAS, she teaches in the MA Philosophy and MA Psychoanalysis programmes.

Bruce Fink is a practising Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He completed his doctorate in psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII in 1987, having written his MA thesis in philosophy under Alain Badiou, and trained in the psychoanalytic formation programme of the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris. More than any other figure, he has been responsible for the transmission of Lacan’s work into English-language clinical and academic practice.

He is the principal translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (Norton, 2006), for which he received the French-American Foundation’s nonfiction translation prize, as well as of Lacan’s Seminar XX: Encore (1998) and Seminar VIII: Transference. His own books include The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (1995), A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (1997), Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely (2004), Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (2007), Against Understanding in two volumes (2013–14), Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan’s Seminar VIII (2016), and A Clinical Introduction to Freud (2017).

Rocco Gangle works at the intersection of semiotics, diagrammatic logic, metaphysics, and political philosophy, asking how diagrams function both as instruments of thought and as objects of philosophical investigation in their own right. His work draws Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics, and Deleuze’s philosophy of difference into conjunction with the formal resources of category theory, opening a route into mathematical formalism for philosophers without mathematical training.

He is Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College, where he has taught since 2007, having previously taught at Oberlin College and the University of California, Merced, and he is co-director of the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (Edinburgh, 2016) and François Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh, 2013), co-author with Gianluca Caterina of Iconicity and Abduction (Springer, 2017), and co-editor of Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). He is also Laruelle’s English translator, having rendered Philosophies of Difference into English for Continuum. His writing on Spinoza, Peirce, Deleuze, Levinas, and Laruelle has appeared in Philosophy Today, SubStance, and Political Theology, among others.

Francisco González Castro (Santiago, Chile, 1984) works as a writer and artist. As a writer, he has published several books on art and politics, as well as essays in various books and magazines. As an artist, he works in different media, from performance art, video, and painting to drawing and ceramics. He has exhibited his work in different countries, both in museums and galleries and in community spaces.

Jane Anna Gordon is a political theorist whose work spans modern and contemporary political theory, Africana political thought, theories of enslavement, political theories of education, and questions of method in the social sciences. She is best known for developing creolization as a rigorous theoretical practice rather than a metaphor — a way of reading the canon through the thought it excluded, and of rethinking political legitimacy from the position of those it has failed.

She is Professor of Political Science and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, with affiliations in American Studies, El Instituto, Global Affairs, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She previously taught at Temple University. Her books include Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Frantz Fanon (Fordham, 2014), Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Routledge, 2020), and Why They Couldn’t Wait, and she has co-edited Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, The Politics of Richard Wright, Journeys in Caribbean Thought, Creolizing Rousseau, A Companion to African-American Studies, and Not Only the Master’s Tools.

President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2014 to 2016, she continues to direct the CPA Summer School and co-edits its Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Thought book series. With Lewis R. Gordon she is Executive Editor of the open-access journal Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Lewis R. Gordon is a philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician, and one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and Africana philosophy. His work spans existentialism and phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, and the philosophy of education and religion, with sustained attention to the thought of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois.

He is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University, and Distinguished Scholar in the Honourable P. J. Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at UWI-Mona. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and at Temple University as the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy. A past president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, he co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs with Jane Anna Gordon. His books include Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, Existentia Africana, What Fanon Said, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization, and Fear of Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Penguin, 2022).

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist whose work has profoundly influenced contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. Known for her critical engagement with the Western philosophical canon and Freudian and Lacanian traditions, she explores sexual difference, embodiment, language, and ethics in works such as Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, and An Ethics of Sexual Difference. Professor Irigaray taught a GCAS seminar in Paris in 2016.

Dr. Eric Jobe completed his PhD at the University of Chicago.

Florian received a Bachelor of Science from University College Utrecht, an MA in philosophy, and a PhD in psychology from the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. He is the director of GCAS’s MA in Psychoanalysis degree programme.

Susannah Livingston, PhD, is an educator and researcher living in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Her work examines the relationships between critical pedagogy and American non-public schools, explores the deterministic nature of education, and studies how Freirean principles can be used as a liberatory tool in non-public spaces. She has degrees in American Indian Studies and Education from Rutgers and Johns Hopkins in the USA, and a PhD in Social and Political Thought from GCAS College, Dublin. Susannah also works as a school administrator and history teacher, and mentors students from all over the United States.

Todd McGowan is Professor of English and Director of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, where he teaches theory and film. His work brings Hegelian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to bear on politics, cinema, and contemporary culture.

He is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater, 2024), The Racist Fantasy, Universality and Identity Politics (Columbia University Press, 2020), Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016), and The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007). He co-hosts the Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley, co-edits the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston, and co-organises the annual Lack conference.

Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. Her first book The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence was published in 2021 and received widespread critical acclaim.

Maria Miranda (PhD, Yale University) is a specialist in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Baroque. She has published articles in Hispanic Review and Literatura Mexicana. Maria received her doctorate from Yale University and her MA from the University of Buenos Aires. She has also published four books of poetry and essay: Romané (2005), Los velos de la derrota (2009), La Creación del Silencio (2014), and Charcas o Parábola sobre el vacío (2021).

At present she is writing a collection of poems about nightmares, one of which was recently adapted into a soundscape by artist Jorge Martínez in collaboration with the author. Her poetry has been published in translation in Review 96: Nuevísimos: New Spanish American Writing (2018, translated by G. J. Racz) and in A Perfect Vacuum (2023, translated by Jacqui Cornetta). As a translator herself, María has worked with the British Museum on several projects; in 2021 she translated the book Mapping a New Museum: Politics and Practice of Latin American Research with the British Museum. She is especially committed to the translation of under-studied avant-garde Peruvian poets such as César Moro, as well as to the dissemination of young writers from her home city of Arequipa. She is currently working on a new translation of 5 metros de poemas by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and preparing an anthology of experimental contemporary poets from Arequipa.

Juan Felipe Miranda Medina is a Peruvian researcher and artist who integrates different knowledge fields: engineering, music-dance, and philosophy. As an engineer, Miranda holds a PhD in telecommunications and specialises in microwave design and analysis, with a strong background in signal processing. In music and dance, Juan is the first Peruvian to graduate from the prestigious Choreomundus Programme in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage, and holds an undergraduate degree in musicology.

Juan has conducted fieldwork with the Afro-Peruvian community since 2013, which led to the publication of the book Freedom, Laughter and the Void (2022). In philosophy, Juan is interested in topics regarding philosophy of mind and cognition in relation to the production of meaning at the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic levels. He is currently applying the philosophical framework of hylomorphism to the study of zapateo dance battles known as contrapuntos.

Maxim (Maksym) Miroshnichenko holds a PhD in philosophy (2019) and is a research fellow at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His interests revolve around cybernetics and systems theory, enactive cognition, Soviet philosophy of science, and AI. He currently works on a project dedicated to the intersections of Marxism and cybernetics in Soviet logico-methodological thought, as a contribution to discussions on AI, cognitivism, and posthumanism.

Rishab Nathan is a Lecturer and PhD Year 1 Advisor at GCAS. He received his PhD from GCAS, where his research explored how both psychoanalytic theory and practice interact with contemporary capitalism. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book, in which he argues for the necessity of the theorist, presenting psychoanalysis as the framework through which the theorist is constituted and maintained.

He is currently teaching a course in the MA program on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis. His other interests include Hegelian and Marxist philosophy, cultural studies, love, and therapy. Rishab is based in Columbus, OH, where he is training to be a psychoanalytic counselor.

Hilary Neroni is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, where she has taught since 1999 and where she created the Film and Television major. She received her PhD from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her work brings psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and Marxism to bear on film and television, examining how ideology is represented on screen and how cultural trends reveal the anxieties and desires of a society at large.

She is the author of The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film (Columbia University Press, 2015), winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize and an honourable mention for the BAFTSS Best Monograph Award; Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 (Bloomsbury, 2016); and The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2005). She has published widely on women directors, documentary film, and representations of gender, race, and violence on screen, and co-organises the annual Lack conference.

Giosuè Prezioso serves as Dean of Academic Affairs at Unicollege, an Italian accredited university with campuses in the UNESCO World Heritage cities of Florence, Mantua, Milan and Turin. He is the youngest individual to hold that post at the international level, a distinction that contributed to his selection as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree in education.

After completing his Bachelor of Arts in the United States, he earned a Master of Science in Art, Law and Business from Christie’s. He subsequently pursued dual doctoral studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with a graduate specialisation in education at Harvard University.

He has lectured and led seminars at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the University of South Florida, and the Economic Forum. His scholarship has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Egea Editore (Bocconi University), Cacucci Editore, and Kalos, and his academic, civic and public engagement work has been featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Forbes.

His areas of expertise are the humanities, digital arts and humanities, art history, art criticism, art law and business, education, edtech, research methodologies, comparative studies, academic writing, and DEI.

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program. She also holds the Jacques Derrida Chair in Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. She completed her doctorate at Princeton in 1979, and studied with Jacob Taubes in Berlin and with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris.

Her books include Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012), and Complaint: Grievance among Friends (2018), many of them widely translated. Alongside her writing she has worked extensively in performance, chiefly in Germany and France, and has been named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic for her contribution to French thought and letters.

Filippo Scafi is a lecturer in philosophy and anthropology at GCAS. He teaches in the BA programme and is the principal mentor in the MA Philosophy programme. He is an affiliated researcher at the School of Materialist Research. His work engages the intersections of philosophy, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on epistemology, alterity, and the critique of representation.

His dissertation focuses on the philosophical and epistemological limits of the Ontological Turn in anthropology, examining how concepts of Difference and alterity function as both pharmakon and impasse, and advancing François Laruelle’s non-philosophy as an alternative framework. Beyond his research, he has taught introductory philosophy courses at GCAS, with a focus on ancient Greek philosophy, truth and discourse, and the legacy of Socratic critique in relation to writing and democracy. His broader interests include media theory, critical theory, and the relationship between philosophy and lived experience.

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics at the University of Exeter, where he is a research fellow and lecturer. His work centres on panpsychism and altered states of consciousness, drawing particularly on Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Spinoza.

He is the author of Modes of Sentience: Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism (Psychedelic Press, 2021) and Noumenautics: Metaphysics, Meta-Ethics, Psychedelics (2015), and co-editor, with Christine Hauskeller, of Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). With Hauskeller he also founded the Philosophy of Psychedelics Exeter Research Group. His recent writing includes work on pantheism in Philosophical Psychology, and his TEDx talk on psychedelics and consciousness has carried these questions to a much wider audience than academic philosophy usually reaches.

Adam Szymanski is the author of Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2020. His second monograph, Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health: Recomposing Subjectivity, at the Cinema, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2025. He holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University in Montreal.

Adam is open to supervising doctoral research on topics related to institutional psychotherapy, global art cinema, Canadian studies, the art market and Web3.

Fernando Tohmé is a mathematical economist working on the foundations of game-theoretic and economic formalisms and their extension into artificial intelligence, engineering, and the computational sciences. His research centres on decision problems, game theory, social choice, and optimisation in socio-economic settings, with further work on abductive cognition, argumentation systems, and evolutionary models of economic development.

He is a Principal Researcher of CONICET, Argentina’s National Research Council, and Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, where he has taught game theory and microeconomic theory since 1993. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Economics, and is a former Fulbright Scholar who has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Luxembourg, and the British University in Dubai. His work appears in Artificial Intelligence, Theory and Decision, Mathematical Social Sciences, Annals of Operations Research, and Omega, among others.

At GCAS he directs the doctoral programme in the natural, mathematical, and computational sciences, supervising researchers across the sciences and mathematics.

Dr Brian Tyrrell-Nic Dhonncha was awarded his DPhil in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 2023, with a specialisation in mathematical logic. After a year at Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher and stipendiary lecturer, he joined California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he lectures core mathematics courses in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations.

His research interests are split between mathematical logic and mathematics education. His PhD and postdoctoral research focused on undecidability results — such as Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem — applied to specific problems in number theory and algebraic geometry, with implications for automated theorem proving and Hilbert’s axiomatisation of mathematics programme. His recent research at Cal Poly focuses on the theory of embodied cognition — that thought is physically rooted in the body, and that abstraction, including mathematical reasoning, becomes grounded by bodily actions such as hand gestures — applied to the teaching and learning of undergraduate students, especially those with communication disorders.

Muhammad Hamza Waseem is a Research Scientist at Quantinuum. His current research focuses on quantum foundations, quantum science education, applied category theory, mathematical linguistics, and quantum natural language processing. Hamza completed his DPhil in Physics at the University of Oxford, funded by the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College. His thesis explored applied process-relational philosophy and employed string diagrams to study interpretations of quantum theory, constructor theory, wave-based logic, quantum computing, and natural language processing.

During his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at UET Lahore, Hamza helped establish Pakistan’s first laboratory for single-photon quantum physics. He also co-authored the book Quantum Mechanics in the Single-Photon Laboratory, published by the Institute of Physics (IOP), UK, now in its second edition. Passionate about public engagement with science, Hamza has played a key role in organising the Lahore Science Mela, the largest annual science festival in Pakistan, and co-founded Spectra, an online magazine dedicated to training popular science writers in Pakistan. For his contributions to science popularisation he has been awarded the 2021 Diana Award, a High Commendation at the 2021 SEPnet Public Engagement Awards, and the 2024 MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award.

At Oxford, Hamza teaches mathematics and physics at Magdalen College, the Mathematical Institute, and the Department of Computer Science, and has served as a Lecturer in Physics at Magdalen College. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies in Dublin.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She teaches at the New School for Social Research, supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York, and is a graduate and member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is also a founding member of Das Unbehagen, a collective of psychoanalysts working outside institutional affiliation. Her teaching centres on Lacan’s early and late seminars, the body in psychoanalytic thinking, and the influence of structural linguistics on the reading of Freud.

She is the author of On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (Peninsula/Catapult, 2025), Disorganisation & Sex (Divided, 2022), Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2018), and The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2011), and co-wrote Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (2013) with Simon Critchley. She writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Artforum, and Spike Art Quarterly, alongside her work in psychoanalytic journals.

Santiago Zabala is a philosopher working in hermeneutics, aesthetics, ontology, and political philosophy. His central claim is that the greatest emergency of our moment is the absence of emergency — that surveillance capitalism and right-wing populism are imposing a “return to order” which conceals the emergencies that matter most, among them climate collapse and economic inequality. The task of philosophy, on his account, is to thrust us back into those absent emergencies, a project he has developed into a philosophy of warnings.

He is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he teaches contemporary and political philosophy and supervises doctoral researchers, and he is founding director of the UPF Center for Vattimo’s Archives and Philosophy. Raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva, he studied philosophy at the University of Turin and the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, where he took his PhD in 2006, and subsequently held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Potsdam and a visiting scholarship at Johns Hopkins.

His books include Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia, 2025), Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill-Queen’s, 2020), Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Columbia, 2017), The Remains of Being (Columbia, 2009), and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy (Columbia, 2008), along with Hermeneutic Communism, co-authored with Gianni Vattimo (Columbia, 2011). He co-edits a book series with Adrian Parr for McGill-Queen’s, and his opinion writing appears in The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2024–25 the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid mounted The Greatest Emergency, an exhibition built on his aesthetic theory.