Samuel Binkley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emerson College and co-editor of Foucault Studies.  His recent book, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke University Press, 2007) examines the role of lifestyle print culture in the shaping of personal identity.  His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Culture, Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, Time & Society, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies and the Journal for Cultural Research.  He is currently working on a new book project on happiness.

Jeffrey Bussolini is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY, and author of The Culture of National Security Science: Los Alamos and Wen Ho Lee (Duke University Press, forthcoming).  His article, "Michel Foucault's Influence on the Work of Giorgio Agamben," will appear in A Foucault for the 21st Century: Biopolitics, Governmentality, Discipline, eds. Sam Binkley & Jorge Capatillo (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).  His other recent articles include "Ongoing Founding Events in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben" (Telos, July 2009) and "Nuclear State of Exception: Nuclear Weapons, Sovereignty and Geopolitics/Biopolitics."  He has also translated from Italian Franco Riccio's "The Death of God" and Salvo Vaccaro's "Horror Vacui: Between Anomie and Anarchy," both in Nietzsche and Anarchism (Autonomedia, 2004) with Laura Fantone.

Shifra Diamond is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Sciences, an interdisciplinary program in language, culture and society, at George Washington University. Her dissertation examines the intersections of queer theory with poststructuralist theory, looking especially at questions of referentiality and exemplarity in the work of Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. She has presented papers at the Cultural Studies Association, American Comparative Literature Association and the National Women's Studies Association, as well as at conferences held at George Washington University and the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2005, she has served on the conference committee for the New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) and she is currently the graduate student representative to the program committee of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and has taught courses on queer studies and feminist theory at New School University. She received an M.A. in Literature from Washington University, St. Louis, and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mike Jolley is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of South Florida with Minors in Psychology and Women's Studies. He has taught sociology, social psychology, and gender studies at Hunter College and is currently a CUNY Writing Fellow at Bronx Community College as part of the Writing Across the Curriculum initiative. Over the last 10 years he has worked in mental health and has planned and managed several youth education and employment programs in Central Harlem. He also has experience in nonprofit grant writing and contract negotiation and has worked as a consultant providing personnel training in the areas of program design and management. His research interests include biopolitics and space and changing ideas about youth deviance.

David Lane is a playwright with degrees in Philosophy and Film & Theater Arts from SUNY Purchase College of the Arts. He has led reading groups in philosophy & literature for over 10 years.

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