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ARLETTE BONAFONT |
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Arlette Bonafont is an independent Canadian scholar who specializes in the fiction and poetry of the French Enlightenment. --- |
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Valeriu Butulescu is a renowned Romanian author, politician, and a mineralogist. He has published extensively within the genres of the aphorism, drama, and short prose. He has been translated into 32 languages. --- |
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Mark Daniel Cohen is a freelance author who writes regularly on art in New York City, with over 400 articles, art reviews, and essays on contemporary art and aesthetics in publication in a variety of art exhibition catalogues and commercial, university, and art school journals. He is also the Assistant Dean and Controller of the Media and Communications Division of the European Graduate School, and editor and principal writer for the academic journal Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. Among his books, he has recently completed Ilan Averbuch: Public Projects and The Judenporzellan of Izhar Patkin, and has contributed chapters to Chawky Frenn: Art for Life's Sake, Abstraction in the Elements, The Archeology of the Soul, and the second edition of Dictionary of the Avant Gardes. He is currently working on several volumes, including Treatise on Poetic Reason. Together with Dr. Friedrich Ulfers, Cohen is preparing a book of Nietzsche's ontology and cosmology, and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same viewed from a scientific perspective. Together, they have recently published several essays: "Nietzsche's Amor Fati: The Embracing of an Undecided Fate," published on the website of the Nietzsche Circle; "Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics"; "Nietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism," which appears in the volume Nietzsche and Antiquity, edited by Paul Bishop; "Nietzsche's 'Postmodernism': A Return to 'Classicism'"; and "The Effect of Nietzsche's Aesthetics on the Art of the Twentieth Century." --- |
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Gian DiDonna is a playwright and teacher of English
Literature, Dramatic Literature, Playwriting, and Acting. He is also an
instructor of American Studies at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. His
full length plays include the following titles: Only Too Far
Punished, A Sinister Man, The Night Trombone, Addolorata, Juan and
Baruch, Renati the King, and The Chi. Short plays: Georgia,
Water. Children’s plays: Gelato, The Tale of Three Moons.
Screenplay: The Hot Corner. Awards and Recognitions: Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation Grant. CUNY Development Grant. Last Frontier New
Play Lab Competition: Finalist. Gian DiDonna received his MFA in
Playwriting from Goddard College, Vermont (1999), his BA from The New
School (Eugene Lang College) (1988), and was trained as an actor at The
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (1993-94). --- |
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Camelia Elias is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has written several books: on the concept of fragment, on the gaze in feminist, queer, and postcolonial films, a monograph on the poet Lynn Emanuel, and on literary and cultural text theory. She has also edited books within cultural studies, poetry criticism, and a special volume on the work of Raymond Federman. Currently she's working on two book projects: one on epistemologies of creative writing and another on Tarot as a cultural text. On the creative side, she paints, she is a Tarot de Marseille reader, and she writes prose poetry and fragments - she published two poetry collections. She also maintains two blogs: A blog on Frag/ments and another on Taroflexions.
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Enrique
Enriquez (Caracas, 1969) is a tarot reader. His work with the Marseille
Tarot hasn't granted him any award, monetary compensation nor any other
form of prestige whatsoever. He is not affiliated with any respectable
institutions. He doesn't know important people nor can he be associated
with any celebrity. Thanks of this persistent state of dereliction he
has been able to develop a deep understanding of the tarot's poetics,
without having to endure the distractions of fame and derailments of
success. He lives in New York with his wife and his three kids.
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Robert Gibbons is author of six full-length books of prose poems. He wrote & posted work for two meandering years on his online Log. Poetry & Fiction Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Janus Head, he's currently working on an autobiographical manuscript. --- |
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Rainer J. Hanshe was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in New York. He migrates between New York, Turkey, Morocco, France, and Italy. He writes novels, aphorisms, poetry, and essays. For some time, he worked as an assistant to photographer Nan Goldin. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and serves as one of the editors of its journal, The Agonist. Along with Mark Daniel Cohen, he is a chief editor of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. He is working on his second novel, THE ABDICATION, and ALIEN & ILLOGICAL POWERS, a philosophical work that concerns synaesthesia, incubation, poetics, and some esoteric dimensions of Nietzsche’s thought. --- |
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Named one of "50 to watch" in a 2007 issue of The Dramatist, the magazine of the Dramatist's Guild, George Hunka has written several plays and essays, as well as reviews, theory and feature stories about theatre for the Guardian (UK), Yale Theatre, The New York Times, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, New York Theater Review 2007, Masthead (Australia), and other publications. He guest-edited the theatre section of The Brooklyn Rail for a special symposium on theatre and design in November 2006. He is the artistic director of the theatre minima theatre company. In 2007, he was awarded an Albee Foundation Fellowship. --- |
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Anthony Johnson is currently Professor of Philology and Head of the Department of English at the Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland. Books include Ben Jonson: Poetry and Architecture (Oxford: 1994) and Three Volumes Annotated by Inigo Jones: Vasari’s ‘Lives’ (1568), Plutarch’s ‘Moralia’ (1614), Plato’s ‘Republic’ (1554), ed. with an introduction, A. W. Johnson (Åbo: 1997), an edition of The Country Captain, by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle (Oxford: Clarendon Press). His is currently completing a book on Ben Jonson for the Writers and their Works New Series, producing an edition of a previously unpublished long poem from 1669 (the Fasti Cantuarienses of John Boys), and editing a collection of essays: Alchemy and the Literary Imagination (forthcoming): as well as a book (with Professor Roger D. Sell): Religion and Writing in England 1558–1689: Studies in Community-Making and Cultural Memory for Ashgate (forthcoming, 2008). --- |
| MARIA KARDAUN |
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Maria Kardaun is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Studied Latin and Greek at Leiden University (1987, cum laude). Gained PhD in 1993 with a psychoanalytic (Freudian) interpretation of the Satyricon of Petronius. Wrote a monography on the concept of ‘mimesis’ in Greek philosophy for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (1993), and many articles of (mainly) Jungian literary criticism. Together with her colleague Joke Spruyt she edited The Winged Chariot: Collected Essays on Plato & Platonism in Honour of L.M. de Rijk, Leiden etc.: Brill 2000 (= Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 100). Recurring themes in her work are: theoretical aspects of literary criticism, mythology, philosophy of art, Platonism, Romantic German poetry (Goethe, Herder, Eichendorff), depth psychological bible interpretation, dreams in mythology and religion. --- |
| STEVEN JOYCE |
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Steven Joyce was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin and received his Ph.D in comparative literature from UNC Chapel Hill. He is currently an Associate Professor of German at the Ohio State University-Mansfield. His interests are in Thomas Bernhard, G.B. Shaw, literary theory, translation, and the Ancient Greeks. --- |
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David Kilpatrick is Associate Professor of Literature, Language and Communication at Mercy College, NY. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature and M.A. in philosophy at Binghamton (SUNY). His areas of specialization are violence and representation, modernism, history of drama and the theory of criticism. He has published on Nietzsche, Bataille, Mishima, Nitsch, Barker, and is a theater critic for The Brooklyn Rail. --- |
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Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is Professor & Director of the Center for University Studies and Programs at University of Washington, Bothell. He is also Honorary Professor of the Center for Humanities and Medicine, University of Hong Kong (2010-13). He is interested in cross-disciplinary and cross-genre connections, focusing on questions of aesthetics, spectrality, technocultures, global noir, and the 21st century university. He is interested in, among a host of other things, cafés, ghosts, cities, hotel keys, the posthuman, painting, and the enigma of reading. --- |
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Rachel Pollack is the author of thirty-four books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including two award-winning novels and several landmark studies of the symbolism in tarot cards. Her works have appeared all over the world, in fourteen languages. She has lectured and taught all across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. --- |
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Caridad
Svich is a US Latina playwright, translator, songwriter and lyricist
and editor whose theatre pieces and songs, written in English and
Spanish, have been presented across the US and abroad at diverse
venues. She has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama three
times, including in the year 2010 for her play Instructions for Breathing. She’s
been a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at Harvard
University, NEA/TCG Playwright in Residence at the Mark Taper Forum
Theatre, TCG/PEW Playwright in Residence at INTAR. --- |
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Bent Sørensen has a PhD in American Literature and Culture from Aalborg University, where he is Associate Professor of English. He teaches 20th and 21st century American literature, cultural studies and theory, and various writing classes in the interdisciplinary Department of Culture and Global Studies. --- |
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Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle based in New York City and serves on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The Agonist. Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School University’s General Studies Division since 1999. He also teaches at NYU and Pace University. In addition to typical philosophy classes, he teaches inter-disciplinary topical classes on power, taboo & transgression, gai saber & the troubadours, crime & punishment, and spectacle. In addition to Nietzsche and history of philosophy, he is interested in the twentieth century French thought. His first Philomobile class, which was on Nietzsche, was undertaken in May 2010. His areas of research are art, culture, myth, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations. --- |
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DAVID VINE |
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David Vine is a writer, translator, instructor, and independent tarot scholar with extensive training in modern and classical languages, and in medieval literature and art history. As a teacher and the author of a monthly print column, Vine offers fresh takes on tarot history and practice through the lens of linguistics and the grammar of imagery. His forthcoming works include several English translations of seminal tarot texts. --- |
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Glenn
Wallis is an Associate Professor and Chair in Applied Meditation
Studies at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in
Buddhist studies from Harvard University's Department of Sanskrit and
Indian Studies. His scholarly work focuses on various aspects of
Buddhism. He has also written on the prospects of making classical
Buddhist literature, philosophy, and practice relevant to contemporary
life. Most recently, though, he has become bored with the tedious
tessellation known as "Buddhism," and has turned his attention to
criticism. Drawing from Françoise Laruelle's work in non-philosophy, he
calls his critical work non-buddhism. --- |
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madame x |
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, a number of French forgers published texts purporting to have been written by historical personalities. To name but a few: Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon, Amédée Pichot and Henri Ferrier offered the reading public Memoirs of an Aristocratic Lady; Lamothe-Langon, Pichot and Charles Nodier co-authored Mémoires d’une femme de qualité sur Louis XVIII, la cour et son règne; and in 1829-30 the well-known diplomat de Villamarest published the ten-volume Monsieur Bourienne’s Memoirs of Napoleon, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Restoration, presenting it as an account of the life of Napoleon penned by his own minister. Little is known about the writer who adopted the nom de plume ‘Madame X,’ but she was evidently a forerunner of these notorious hoaxers. --- |