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zahid r. chaudhary is an associate professor of English at Princeton University where he specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. His first book Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) provides a historical and philosophical account of early photography in India, analyzing how aesthetic experiments in colonial photographic practice shed light on the changing nature of perception and notions of truth, memory, and embodiment. His current book in progress, Unruly Truth: Pyschopolitics and Crises of Authority, analyzes contemporary shifts in the collective deprioritizing of evidence and truth that attends a simultaneously increasing cultural emphasis on a politics of exposure.

robyn wiegman is a professor in the Program in Literature and the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and former director of Women’s Studies at both Duke and the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Object Lessons (Duke University Press, 2012) and American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Duke University Press, 1995) and has published numerous anthologies. She is currently working on two projects: “Arguments Worth Having,” which locates points of critical dissension in contemporary encounters between feminist, queer, and critical race thinking; and “Racial Sensations,” which uses theories of affect to analyze the toxic ecologies of race and sexuality in u.s. culture.