Peter Pericles Trifonas is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of education, cultural studies, and technology. Among his books are the following: Converging Literacies, Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida), International Handbook of Semiotics, International Handbook of Research and Pedagogy in Heritage Language Education, CounterTexts:  Reading Culture, Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory, The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Pedagogy, Institutions, Education, and the Right to Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida), Roland Barthes and the Empire of Signs, Umberto Eco & Football, Pedagogies of Difference.