Author Biography

Oliver Marchart is Professor of Sociology at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. He is author of Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Simon Critchley) of Laclau: A Critical Reader (2004). He is also author of six books written in German including Beginning Anew: Hannah Arendt, Revolution and Globalisation (2005) and Techno-Colonialism: Theory and Imaginary Cartography of Culture and the Media (2004).