... with respiratory health conditions, breathing has now become a central preoccupation of the world. This special dossier, “Breath,” considers the politics, history, geography, and conditions of breathing from a moment of respiratory crisis amid a respiratory pandemic, the ecological crisis of California’s...

... the imperial promise of futurity and continuity. From the 1916 “Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial” in San Francisco, during which members of the Ghadr Party—consisting of diasporic Indian students at the University of California, Berkeley, and Punjabi farmers in the Central Valley—were accused of conspiring...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JEREMY BRETT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on German poetic and philosophical texts from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. He is currently writing ele- gies...

... to translate their on- campus activism into a work of scholarship and to thereby synthesize nearly a decade of engagement and struggle to defend public higher education in California through the radi- cal possibilities that remain strong within both multicultural and cultural studies. We take...

... Contributors karen barad is professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the En- tanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) and numerous articles...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Contributors megan alvarado saggese is a graduate student in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. antony anghie is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. His re- search...

... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Contributors william callison is a doctoral candidate in political science with a designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. michael mark cohen teaches American studies and African American studies...

... of Hamburg- Bremen, trans. Francis J. Tschan, intro. Timothy Reuter (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). Theodor W. Adorno, Essays on Music, ed. with an introduction by Richard Leppert, trans. Susan H. Gillespie, et al . (Berkeley: University of California Press...

.... Breton, Stanislas. A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul. Trans. Joseph N. Ballan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Buckley, Craig, and Jean-Louis Violeau, eds...

... September 11 (2007). Pre- vious work includes Culture and Domination (1989) and Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis (1993). alyosha edlebi is a graduate student at Yale University. jordan greenwald is a doctoral candidate in English at the Uni- versity of California...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Contributors robert alford is a doctoral candidate in fi lm and media at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. His dissertation is an intermedial, transhistor- ical exploration of the musical genre that considers how the various me- diated forms...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Contributors elizabeth abel is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work spans two broad fi elds of inquiry. The fi rst is gender theory, psychoanalysis, and twentieth-century fi ction (especially Woolf and Morrison...

... (2011), Good Education in an Age of Measure- ment: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (2010), and, with Charles Bingham, Jacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation (2010). wendy brown is Class of Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS DAVID COPENHAFER received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in the Spring of 2004. He is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Music Department at the University of Pennsylvania. TODD CRONAN...

..., and Other Fantasies in Interwar France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Jacques Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Mark Donnelly...

... BOOKS RECEIVED David Antin, / Knew What Time It Was (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). Roland Barthes, The Neutral (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). Kimberly Blessing and Paul Tudigo (eds Movies and the Meaning of Life...

... to ecological and fi nancial catas- trophe in recent French thought. alex dubilet is a doctoral candidate in the department of rheto- ric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently fi nish- ing his dissertation, “From Kenosis to Immanence: Self- Emptying in the Works of Meister Eckhart, G...

... of Thought; Islam et société ouverte: La fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal; and, most recently, Léopold Sédar Senghor: L’art af- ricain comme philosophie. luca d’isanto has taught the philosophy of religion for several years at the University of California, Berkeley. He has...

..., Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). Geoffrey Bennington...