Notes on Contributors

24hrs/Palestine is a program made possible by the involvement of various international collectives and the work of a coordination team based in Bethlehem, Beirut, Santiago, London, Paris, Singapore, and Mexico.Pietro Bianchi is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and Cinema: Imaginary, Gaze, Formalization (2017) and has published articles on critical theory, Marxism, and film studies. He also contributes as a film critic to journals such as e-flux Notes, Doppiozero, and Cineforum.William Callison is an assistant professor of political science at Hunter College, CUNY. His research draws from political theory and critical social theory to explore dilemmas of neoliberal capitalism, democratic crisis, political subjectivity, conspiracy theories, climate change politics, and far-right nationalism in Europe and the Americas. He is coeditor of Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture (2019) and “Europe at a Crossroads” (Near Futures Online), and special issue editor of “Rethinking Sovereignty and Capitalism” (Qui Parle).Benjamin Crais is a scholar, critic, and film programmer with a PhD from the Program in Literature at Duke University. His scholarship has been published (or is forthcoming) in Discourse, Polygraph, and Mediations, and his criticism has appeared in venues including Sidecar (New Left Review), Film Comment, and MUBI Notebook. He is currently working on two projects: a study of literary narratives of deindustrialization in the 1970s and a history of the agrarian question in twentieth-century political filmmaking.Verónica Gago teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires and critical theory and gender theory at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She is an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research and part of the Group for Feminist Research and Intervention. She coordinates a working group about popular economies in Latin America at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences. She is a member of the collective press Tinta Limón. She occupied the Andrés Bello Chair during spring 2023 at New York University. Her work has centered on the relations between feminism, neoliberalism, and financialization of everyday life. Gago is the author of Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (2017) and Feminist International (2020). She is the coauthor of A Feminist Reading of Debt, with Luci Cavallero (2021).Cassandra Xin Guan 关昕 is assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago and an affiliated faculty at the Center for East Asian Studies. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology from 2022 to 2024 and received a PhD in modern culture and media from Brown University. Her writing has been published in academic journals such as October, Screen, Film-Philosophy, World Picture, and Critical Inquiry. She is currently finishing a book manuscript, called “Maladaptive Media: The Exigency of Life in the Era of Its Technical Reproducibility,” while simultaneously developing a second research project on the dialectic of mass mobilization and demobilization in Chinese state-sponsored media art forms.Anna Kornbluh is professor of English and a member of the United Faculty Bargaining Committee at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the author of Immediacy; or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024), The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (2019), Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club (Bloomsbury “Film Theory in Practice” series, 2019), and Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (2014). Essays on climate aesthetics, TV, academic labor, and psychoanalysis have appeared in venues like The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Diacritics, Differences, and Portable Gray. She is the founding facilitator of InterCcECT (Inter Chicago Center for Experimental Critical Theory) and a partner in Humanitiesworks.org.Davide Gallo Lassere is lecturer in international politics at the University of London Institute of Paris. He has written several texts on the history and topicality of (post-)workerism, the theory of global capitalism, and contemporary social movements. He is currently working on a book on the upheavals that have characterized the post-2008 global scenario starting from a “geopolitics from below.”Emanuele Leonardi is associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, and affiliated researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Among his recent publications is the postface to the first GKN Collective's reindustrialization plan, coauthored with Lorenzo Feltrin and titled Working-Class Environmentalism and Climate Justice: The Challenge of Convergence Today. The piece was originally hosted in 2022 by the website Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (PPPR). Since then, it has been widely republished and translated into seven languages. The English translation of his 2017 book Lavoro Natura Valore: André Gorz tra marxismo e decrescita (Labour Nature Value: André Gorz between Marxism and Degrowth) is forthcoming.Alberto Manconi is a PhD student and graduate assistant at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne. His thesis focuses on the subjectification trajectories within new climate justice movements in Italy and the UK. As a social and climate activist, he is involved in the Insorgiamo movement, which emerged to support the ex-GKN workers’ collective following mass layoffs, particularly by fostering relationships with climate and ecological movements in Italy and internationally. Additionally, he is active in the EuroNomade research collective and collaborates with various alternative media outlets, primarily in Italian but also in Spanish (CanalRed/DiarioRed).Patrick Marshall is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto-Mississauga in the Department of Visual Studies. He has forthcoming articles in Cultural Critique and ReFocus: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He is currently working on a book project on Marxist state theory, realism, and the 1970s political thrillers of Costa-Gavras.Ernest Pujol-León holds a PhD from the graduate program in literature at Duke University. He is also a member of the editorial collective of Polygraph and a writing consultant at the Thompson Writing Program.Alberto Toscano is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle, 2015), La abstracción real: Filosofia, estética y capital (2021), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), and Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri (2025). He is the coeditor of the three-volume The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs, and Svenja Bromberg, 2022), Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Abolition Geography: Essays in Liberation (with Brenna Bhandar, 2022), and Georges Bataille's Critical Essays, vols. 1–2 (with Benjamin Noys, 2023–25). He is the series editor of Seagull Essays and The Italian List for Seagull Books, and a columnist for the magazine In These Times. He has also translated the work of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Franco Fortini, and Furio Jesi.Joshua Harold Wiebe is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, as well as a contract instructor at Bishop's University. He is a comanaging editor at Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.Ling Zhang is associate professor of cinema studies at the State University of New York, Purchase College, and a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University (2024–25). She holds a PhD in cinema and media studies from the University of Chicago and an MA in film studies from the Beijing Film Academy. Her current book projects include “Unruly Sounds: Chinese Cinema and Transnational Acoustic Culture, 1929–1949” and “Sounding Wayward Journeys: Traveling Film and Media in China and the World, 1949–1989.” She is also coeditor of The Politics of the Soundtrack (forthcoming) and Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media (2025). Her research on film sound and politics, Chinese-language cinema, gender studies, digital media, and the cultural Cold War has appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Comparative Cinema, and Asian Cinema, among others.