We are very fortunate to have the following facilitators join us (arranged alphabetically):
Bedour Alagraa
University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Areas of Specialization: Black political thought; Caribbean political thought; African anti-colonial thought; and Black Marxism(s); critical ethnic studies; Sylvia Wynter.
Seminar: Alienation Reconsidered:
Thinking with Césaire and Fanon
Ashanti Omawali Alston
National Jericho Movement
Center for Grassroots Organizing
Areas of Specialization: Anarchism, Black liberation, Black nationalism. As a result of his membership in both the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, he served a total of 14 years as a political prisoner and prisoner-of-war.
Seminar: Undoing Conquest: Getting This Empire off the Back of the Turtle
Akilesh Ayyar
Sifting to Truth
Areas of Specialization: Advaita Vedanta; jurisprudence; psychology; psychoanalysis; Proust
Seminar: How to Find What Isn’t Lost
Ulrich Baer
New York University
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Areas of Specialization: German literature; poetry; poetics; Rilke; Baudelaire; continental philosophy; photography; trauma.
Seminars:
• Rilke’s Poetics of Immanence
• Lying & Truth in Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Democratic Life
• For Our Present Moment: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
• Hannah Arendt on Race, Identity, & Politics. Or: How to Change Your Mind as a Philosopher
• Cancel the Classics? How to Read Great Books in the 21st Century, from Twain to Hemingway and Beyond…
Robert Beshara
Northern New Mexico College
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Humanities
Areas of Specialization: Critical psychology; Islamophobia; psychoanalysis; global south; fundamentalism; secularization; Islamic humanism; discourse analysis.
Seminar: Decolonial Psychoanalysis
Rich Blint
The New School
Assistant Professor of Literature, director of the program in Race and Ethnicity, and affiliate faculty in Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: American and African American literature and culture; the life and work of James Baldwin; race, gender, and contemporary visuality; postcolonialism and diaspora; urban life and politics in the context of the global.
Seminar: For Our Present Moment: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
Layla Brown
Northeastern University
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies; 2021 – 2022 Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Center for Global Cooperation Research, Germany.
The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Racial capitalism; Black liberation; pan-African, socialist, and feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora; cultural anthropology; Africana studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Seminar: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Carleton College
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science; Visiting Scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago; The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Critical Black studies; political theory; political economy; intellectual history; and historical sociology; twentieth-century Black anticapitalist thought; W.E.B. Du Bois.
Seminar: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment
Federico Campagna
Philosopher & Writer
Overmorrow’s Library Podcast
Areas of Specialization: World-making; metaphysics; shamanism; mysticism; prophetic culture; art; poetry & literature; history; philosophy.
Seminar: Prophetic Conspiration: A Conversation with Federico Campagna
Thomas Conners
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Studies
Areas of Specialization: theories of affect, queer theory, and Latin American and Latinx literature. Seminar: Don’t Worry. Be Happy! Feeling Good, Bad, and Everything in Between.
Daniel Denvir
Host of The Dig, a Jacobin magazine podcast
Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Areas of Specialization: contemporary politics, immigration, criminal justice.
Seminar: Empire of Xenophobia: The Long Political History of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Wall
Charles Eisenstein
Website
Areas of Specialization: economics; civilization; consciousness; money; ecology.
Seminar: Sacred Economics
Camelia Elias
Aradia Academy
Eyecorner Press
Areas of Specialization: teaching and writing on the philosophy and practice of reading tarot cards; contemplative arts; oracular language; martial arts cartomancy; Zen.
Seminar: The Childless Witch: Trembling, Dance, Voice, Oracle, Grace
Amir Eshel
Stanford University
Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies; Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
Areas of Specialization: contemporary literature and the arts as they touch on philosophy, specifically on memory, history, political thought, and ethics.
Seminar: Lying & Truth in Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Democratic Life
Yomaira C. Figueroa–Vásquez
Michigan State University
Associate Professor of Global Afro-Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and African American & African Studies.
Co-director and curator of Electric Marronage.
Areas of Specialization: the textual, historical, and political relations between diasporic Afro-Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Dominican, and Equatoguinean poetics. Seminar: Radical Relating as Decolonial Practice
Eleanor Finley
PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Associate editor at ROAR Magazine ;
Board member of the Institute for Social Ecology.
Areas of Specialization: social ecology; anthropology; practices of direct democracy in the Kurdish Freedom Movement and beyond.
Seminar: Reinventing “Democracy” in the 21st Century: The Rojava Revolution; Practicing Social Ecology: From Social Movements to Democratic Transformation
Patricia Gherovici
Philadelphia Lacan Group
Psychoanalyst in private practice
Areas of Specialization: Lacanian psychoanalysis; transgenderism; race, class, and the unconscious; psychoanalysis and comedy. Seminar: Please Select Your Jacques Lacan
Richard Gilman-Opalsky
University of Illinois, Springfield
Professor of Political Science
Areas of Specialization: Communism; history of political philosophy; Continental and contemporary social theory; Marxism; capitalism; autonomist politics; postmodern philosophy; critical theory; social movements and the public sphere. Seminar: The Communism of Love; Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: Dreaming the Enemies’ Nightmares; Communist Ontologies
Davood Gozli
Independent Scholar
YouTube Channel
Areas of Specialization: Experimental psychology; human agency; philosophy; subjectivity; cognitive psychology; literature.
Seminar: Why Read Carl Jung?
Adam Greenfield
Speedbird
Areas of Specialization: the intersection of design, technology and culture; colonization of everyday life by information technology; city life and urban design; anarchism. His most recent works are Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (Verso, 2017), and At the End of the World, Plant a Tree (Liberia). Seminar: At the End of the World, Plant a Tree
Bruno Gulli
City University of New York
Areas of Specialization: Critical theory; political ontology; ethics; continental philosophy; comparative literature. Seminar: Communist Ontologies
Marisa Holmes
Brooklyn, NY
Organizer, Filmmaker, and Educator
Areas of Specialization: Sociology of media, critical theory, networks, the public sphere, anarchism. Seminar: Mutual Aid: How to Survive the Crisis
Cleo Kearns
Dartmouth College, Visiting Scholar
Areas of Specialization: continental philosophy, comparative religion, western literature, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, shamanism and sacrifice.
Seminars:
• Ritual and Resistance
• Sacrifice, Debt & Grief
• Sacrifice, Gender & Eros
• Virgil, Sovereignty & Eros
• Shamanism and its Discontents
• Shamanism and its Discontents II: Divination
Ruth Kinna
School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, U.K.
Areas of Specialization: late nineteenth century anarchism; history of ideas; political theory; contemporary radical politics.
Seminars: • Seek No Master: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Anarchism Without Adjectives
Başak Koşanay
MA in International Political Economy
Areas of Specialization: Degrowth; degrowth from a Global South perspective; political ecology; critical political economy; and state theory.
Seminar: The Allure and Tragedy of Degrowth: Hegemonic Struggles Over Green Imaginaries
Steven Koteff
Philadelphia, PA
Areas of Specialization: fiction writing
Seminar: Reality Beyond Realism: Storytelling for/versus Enlightenment
Brooke Lavelle
Courage of Care Coalition
Areas of Specialization: Buddhist studies; cognitive science; contemplative theory; anti-oppressive pedagogy; social justice; educational equity.
Seminar: Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies for Eco-Justice
Rebecca Manski
Unsettling Wall Street/Borderless Walks and Social Justice Tours Collective
Independent educator, curriculum designer, researcher
Area of Specialization: The interplay between enclosure and mobilization of contested spaces; prefigurative mapping; the fortresses, walls and detention centers in one of this country’s first border zones: New York’s financial district.
Seminar: Unsettling Territory: A Decolonial Mapping Workshop
Todd McGowan
University of Vermont
Areas of Specialization: film studies; theory and film; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic film theory; Jacques Lacan; Georg Hegel; Continental philosophy.
Seminar: Comedy as Politics; The Politics of Contradiction
Katherine McKittrick
Professor of Gender Studies
Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
Areas of Specialization: Ecology in the work of black studies theorists; color, color theory, image-making, and black aesthetics; black geologies; Sylvia Wynter.
Seminar: Black Methodologies | Black Collaborations
Danielle Meijer
Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at DePaul University
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy; psychology; dance, specializing in Raqs Sharki, Southern Indian Classical Dance, Javanese court dance, Balinese ritual dance, Argentine Tango, Hula, and Flamenco. She is currently writing a book on youth liberation.
Seminar: Anarchic Phenomenological Communitarianism; Child Liberation
Cindy Milstein
Institute for Anarchist Studies
Author, organizer, activist
Areas of Specialization: Creating autonomous spaces of resistance, reconstruction, and education.
Seminars: • Anarchism and its Aspirations • Viral Grief, Rebellious Mourning
Lisa Miracchi
University of Denver
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: Mind, epistemology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, action and practice, feminism, language. Seminar: How Living Well Matters In the Pursuit of Knowledge
Alison McDowell
Activist and Philadelphia-based independent researcher. She blogs about race, financialization, and technology, at wrenchinthegears.com. Seminar: Level Up: Life In A Post-Pandemic Video Game
Kyle Moore
Postdoctoral researcher at LUISS Guido Carli, in Rome, Italy.
Areas of Specialization: 20th century French and German thought; political theology; political philosophy; Alexandre Kojève.
Seminar: Thinking the End in/through Continental Philosophy
Mahoro Murasawa
Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryukoku University
Areas of Specialization: Aesthetics; history of art; psychoanalysis; modern French philosophy; environmental Studies; political philosophy; Félix Guattari.
Seminar: Fox, Satoyama. and Mental Illness: Toward an Animistic Ecology
Philip Murphy
Buddhist Action Coalition NYC
Animal Rebellion NYC
Areas of Specialization: practitioner of Theravada Buddhism; former director at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, the Insight Mediation Center of the Pioneer Valley (Easthampton, MA), and New York Insight Meditation Center; founding member of the Buddhist Action Coalition NYC; co-founder of the New York City chapter of climate and animal justice organization Animal Rebellion.
Seminar: Total Liberation: The Buddhist Eight-Fold Path, Animal Justice, and Liberatory Praxis
Joshua M. Myers
Howard University
Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies.
Areas of Specialization: Africana intellectual histories and traditions; Africana philosophy; musics and foodways; critical university studies; and disciplinarity.
Seminars: We Will be Black: Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism, and Beyond
Matthew O’Connell
Imperfect Buddha Podcast
O’Connell Coaching
Areas of Specialization: Buddhism; non-buddhism; shamanism; critical thinking skills. Seminar: Rethinking Practice at the Great Feast
Edward Onaci
Ursinus College
Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: African American history; modern U.S. history; citizenship and nationalism; the New Afrikan Independence Movement; women’s global political struggles; social movements and music in Africa and its diaspora. Seminar: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen? The Past and Present of the New Afrikan Independence Movement
John Paetsch
Temple University
Areas of Specialization: Continental philosophy; Deleuze; Bergson; philosophy of time; poetics; poetry.
Seminars:
• The Noise of Time
• Gilles Deleuze: Larval Subjects, Lost Time
• “Exhausting All Possibilities:” An Introduction to Deleuze & Guattari’s Political Philosophy
• A Map Through the Ethics: Spinoza’s Geometric Vision of Liberation
• Philosophies of Time: Bergson and Deleuze in the Labyrinth,
Wayne Price
Anarchist Library
Revolutionary, activist, theorist, and writer.
Areas of Specialization: Anarchism; anarchist economic theory; Marxist economic theory; Trotskyism; anarchist ethics.
Seminar: How Can Anarchists and Autonomous Socialists Learn (and Dissent) from Marx’s Marxism?
Joshua Ramey
Independent Scholar
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary continental philosophy; critical social theory; political economy; political theology; Gilles Deleuze; non-philosophy.
Seminars:
• Money and Metaphysics
• Why the Debt Strike is Not Impossible
• Debt Strike Now?
• Debt as Original Sin
• Production or Enslavement?
• What Do We Owe Each Other? For a Critique of Reciprocity
• Shamanism and its Discontents II: Divination
• For the Remains: Reprise
• Feminist Black Study & Radical Political Economy
Scott Ritner
SUNY Potsdam
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Specialization: Political theory; critical theory; Simone Weil; Marxian political thought; political philosophy; political theology. Seminar: Revolutionary Pessimism: On Political Action Without Expectation; Simone Weil: Radical Engagement/Mystical Refusal
Richard Robbins
SUNY Plattsburgh
Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Specialization: global problems, utopian societies, Indigenous peoples of North America, comparative religion, and activist anthropology.
Seminar: Debt Strike Now?
Clelia O. Rodríguez
University of Toronto
Seeds of Change
Areas of Specialization: Pedagogies of liberation and resistance; decolonizing academia; politics of research and methodology critical race theories; cultural and literary theories; critical writing and thinking; discourses of power; Spanish as a second Language; literary production of Spanish-speaking writers Seminar: Pedagogies Under Microscopes
Gabriel Rockhill
Villanova University
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: Modern and contemporary philosophy; social and political thought; aesthetics; social theory; cultural history and historiography; literary and film theory; ethics; psychoanalysis.
Seminars: • Contemporary French Philosophy: A Primer • Aesthetics: Toward a Radical History • Why Marx Matters
Giusi Russo
Montgomery County Community College
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Specialization: Bodies and empires; colonialism in the United Nations; decolonialism; bodily rhetoric; gender and history; aesthetics of Third Worldism in Italy.
Seminar: Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle
Pierce Salguero
Penn State, Abington College
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Areas of Specialization: History of medicine; Buddhist studies; Asian religions; cultural exchange; Thai massage.
Seminar: Speculum of Pain: Buddhism on Illness
Hannes Schumacher
Publisher at Freigeist Verlag in Berlin, Germany.
Co-founder of Chaosmos ∞ in Athens, Greece.
Areas of Specialization: Metaphysics; logic and religion; Hegel; Deleuze; Nishida; Nagarjuna; chaos theory; global mysticism. Seminars and Groups: Nishida Kitarō: The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview; Who’s Afraid of Hegel?; Chaos Research Group; Reading After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux; Anarchia and Archai: Reimagining the Pre-Socratics.
Ken Scriboni
Reader, Writer, Educator, World Language Teacher.
Comparative Literature/Italian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of Specialization: Italo Calvino; Italian diasporic studies; Meridionalismo; second language acquisition; autonomist Marxism; Black radical thought; anti-work politics; liberatory pedagogy; queer theory; translation studies; Buddhisms. Seminar: Cospiration: Breathing, Poetry, and Making Atmosphere; How to Read a Book: Towards Ludic and Erotic Protocols of Reading.
Carlos A. Segovia
Independent Philosopher
Areas of Specialization: Félix Guattari; Gilles Deleuze; Friedrich Nietzsche; religious studies; late antique religion; anthropocene studies; contemporary philosophy; cultural anthropology Seminar: Chaosmic Landscapes in Guattari’s Latest Works; Anarchia and Archai: Reimagining the Pre-Socratics; LIfe as an Untotalizable Enigma: The Lame Ontology of Greek Mythology.
Alan Seltzer
La Salle University
Writing Program
Areas of Specialization: Poetry; literature; Samuel Beckett; psychoanalysis; Buddhism.
Seminar: History and Politics in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Endgame; Moby Dick Reading Group; Iliad Reading Group.
Devin Singh
Dartmouth College
Associate Professor of Religion
Areas of Specialization: religion, philosophy, ethics, organizational dynamics, and the connections among religion, economics, and politics.
Seminar: Debt Strike Now?
Medha Singh
Blue Diode Publishers
Medha Singh is a poet from Delhi, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a winner of the New Writers Award 2023 (Scottish Book Trust). Her poems appear in Irish Pages, Almost Island, 3:AM, The Dark Horse, Bad Lilies, Interpret, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Indian Quarterly, The Robert Graves Review among numerous others. She took her MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been translated into Hindi, Spanish and French. She is editor-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, Boston.
Seminar: Afterbody: Death, Love, Sex
Natalia Smirnov
Writer, Researcher, Learning Experience Designer.
Areas of Specialization: Prefigurative pedagogy, post-capitalism, play as liberation. Groups: Ludic Liberation Lab. Editor: REFUSE: A Journal of Iconoclasms
Alice Sparkly Kat
Astrologer
Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. They’re the author of Postcolonial Astrology.
Areas of Specialization: Astrology; post-colonial astrology; “taking back the language of the cosmos from capitalism and supremacy and to use it for the creation of communities of care.”
Seminar: Post-Colonial Astrology and Mercury
H. Peter Steeves
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Director of the Humanities Center at DePaul University
Areas of Specialization: Apart from working in academia, he has worked as a bioethicist, business ethicist, international election observer, installation artist, musician, cartoonist, software engineer, South American “revolutionary,” and a NASA Ames think-tank member working on the origin of life. He is currently writing three books: one on philosophy and (chronic) pain; one on post-theistic religion, liberation (anti)theology, and anarchy; and one on cosmology, prebiotic chemistry, and astrobiology.
Seminar: Anarchic Phenomenological Communitarianism; Keep Yourselves From Idols
Thaddeus Squire
Social Impact Commons
Areas of Specialization: Nonprofit management; arts and cultural heritage preservation; fiscal sponsorship; American pragmatism; commoning; cooperative management, new localism; the history of philanthropy; fine and performing arts; museum sciences.
Seminar: The Long Shadow of Rentier Capitalism: Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and How We Turned a Refuge into Reformatory
Matthew Stanley
Board Member of the Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society
Samsara Diagnostics
Samsara Study Groups
Areas of Specialization: Religion; philosophy; psychoanalysis; Heidegger, the Kyoto School; waka poetry; Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence; Hegel.
Seminar: The Art of Exit: The Poetry and Politics of Reclusion in Medieval Japan; The Violence of Care: A Critical Study of Bureaucratic Power.
Judith Suissa
Professor of Philosophy of Education UCL Institute of Education, London, UK
Areas of Specialization: Political and moral philosophy, with a focus on anarchist theory; questions of social justice; radical and libertarian educational traditions; utopian theory; the role of the state, and the parent-child relationship.
Seminar: Learning in the Crisis: On Rediscovering “the Social” in the Midst of a Pandemic
Anthony Paul Smith
La Salle University
Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology
Areas of Specialization: philosophy; non-philosophy; philosophical theology; religious studies; scientific ecology.
Seminar: Alienation and Its Antidotes: On the Thought of François Laruelle
AK Thompson
Ithaca College
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Walter Benjamin; social movements and social change; social theory; activism; politics; aesthetics; anti-capitalism. Seminars: • The Culture of Revolt • Black Bloc/White Riot • Confronting the Demobilizing Wall of Uncertainty
Terrence Thomson
kosmostheoros
Metaphysics of Nature and Failure in Kant’s Opus postumum
Areas of Specialization: Kant, Post-Kantianism, Continental philosophy, Heidegger, Derrida, music and film.
Seminar: Thinking the End in/through Continental Philosophy
Kevin Tucker
Black and Green Press
Wild Resistance Journal
Primal Anarchy Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Primal anarchism; the nature of colonialism and extractivism in expanding civilization; trauma of genocidal and ecocidal campaigns; the impacts of domestication.
Seminar: Narratives With Consequences: Storytelling Animals in a Colonized World
Joseph William Turner
PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin
Trembling Being Substack
Areas of Specialization: Political ontology; dialogue between Continental Philosophy and Japanese Philosophy; Nishitani Keiji’s use of the Buddhist concept of Sunyata (emptiness) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s ontology of “being with.”
Seminar: Introduction to Cybernetic Theory
Aaron Vansintjan
PhD candidate at the University of London
Uneven Earth
Areas of Specialization: Degrowth; urban social movements; ecological thought; the effect of gentrification on food access of marginalized communities; history and political economy of food banks in Canada; urban geography; urban political ecology; ecological economics; and food studies. Seminars: Why the Left Needs Degrowth; Making Degrowth Real
Glenn Wallis
Incite Seminars
Linktree
Areas of Specialization: Buddhism; non-buddhism; non-philosophy; critical educational theory; anarchism; ideological critique; ritual studies; contemplative theory and practice. Seminars:
• Critical Introduction to Buddhist Thought
• Philosophical Concepts for Thinking
• Buddhism in the Age of Trump
• Meditation: Self and Society
• Is This How it Ends: On Human Stupidity and the Meagre Promise of the Epoché
• Darkness
• Unlearning: Radical Education Theory
• Buddhism in Ruin
• For Education: The College Classroom as Concrete Utopia
• Buddhism: What Can It Offer Us Today?
• Non-Buddhist Redescription: Workshop
• Radical Education Workshop
• Darkness and Its Discontents
• A Strange Subject
• A Strange Subject: Participant Workshop
• A Strange Subject: X-Fiction
• Principles of Non-Philosophy: Wresting Vital Potentialities of Humans
• For Buddhism: Critique & Creativity
• Breathingawareness: Introductory Workshop on Buddhist Meditation
• Thinking in the Dark
• Non Buddhist Mysticism
• Nihilism
• What Can We Learn From An Immoralist? Nietzsche NOW!
• Non Buddhist Mysticism: A Reading
Zack Walsh
One Project
Areas of Specialization: process studies; contemplative studies; engaged Buddhism; critical theory; radical ecology; post-capitalism; and China.
Seminar: Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies for Eco-Justice
Zipporah Weisberg
Academic work
Dance-Theater
Areas of Specialization: critical animal studies; the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School; existentialism; phenomenology; experimental dance; poor theater.
Seminar: The Pathology of Animal Extermination
Alexander Wilson
Institute of Research and Innovation, Paris, France
Areas of Specialization: philosophy of science, technology, and aesthetics conversing with cultural studies, environmental humanities, art, and media theory.
Seminar: How We Remained Human: Posthumans, the Technosphere, and the Selfish Meme
Incite Seminars 