Contributors

Nathan Brown is Canada Research Chair in Poetics and professor of English at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (2021), and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics (2017). His translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal will be published in November 2024.Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago; professor emeritus in East Asian studies and history, New York University; and associate research scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of several books and articles on early modern and modern Japan, historical theory, and Marxism, including Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary (2023).Marilyn Ivy is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous essays on contemporary Japanese social and cultural issues, photography, and art as well as Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan (1995).Douglas Messerli, formerly an assistant professor of English at Temple University, has written hundreds of essays on literature, film, and theater and has been the publisher of two significant publishing houses, Sun & Moon Press and Green Integer. He has published numerous books of his own poetry, fiction, and literary contributions, including the now fifteen volumes of his annual My Year contributions, which include discussions of poetry, fiction, theater, dance, performance, film, and political history. He has published over five hundred titles in his presses, many of them on international literature.Zakir Paul is assistant professor of comparative literature at New York University, where he directs the Program in Poetics and Theory. His first book, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism, will appear in 2024. He has translated Maurice Blanchot's Political Writings, 1953–1993 (2010) and Jacques Rancière's Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Arts (2013).Max Ward is associate professor of history at Middlebury College, author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019), and coeditor of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, Institutions (2021) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017). His new project explores the formation and reproduction of police power in modern Japan.Jack Wilson is a doctoral candidate in modern Japanese history at UCLA and lifelong obsessive of extreme music and art. His dissertation focuses on the history of the Waste Land poetry group and the relationship between ideology and cultural production in Japan during the 1940s and 1950s.