YOTETSU TONAKI Yotetsu Tonaki is associate professor of philosophy at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. His research interests are in contemporary philosophy (especially Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Günther Anders, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy). Since the 2011 Fukushima accident, he has also been working on the topic of catastrophes. Tonaki is the co-author of 終わりなきデリダ：ハイデガー、サルトル、レヴィナスとの対話 [Derrida Never-Ending: Dialogues with Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas] (Hosei University Press, 2016); カタストロフからの哲学：ジャン＝ピエール・デュピュイをめぐって [Philosophy after Catastrophe] (Ibunsha, 2015), Arrachement et évasion: Levinas et Arendt face à l’histoire (Vrin, 2013). He had translated the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Oeuvres, 3 vols [Hosei University Press, 2014-2018] and Jean-Luc Nancy, After Fukushima: Catastrophe, Technique, Democracy as フクシマの後で 破局・技術・民主主義 (Ibunsha, 2012). « La Catastrophe de Fukushima » existe-t-elle ? Vers une autre conceptualisation de la catastrophe. 26 March 2021 Read Article

PIERRE-ULYSSE BARRANQUE Pierre-Ulysse Barranque is a doctoral fellow at Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, attached to the EsPas laboratory (ACTE). His research in the field of aesthetics is titled "Aesthetic act and political act in Debord and Baudrillard" under the direction of Pascale Weber. Barranque is also a faculty in philosophy at the Lycée Charles-De-Gaulle in Concepción, Chile. Des images pour ne pas voir : Sémiotique et éthique chez Sartre, Barthes et Daney 11 September 2024 Read Article Orientalism, Anti-Semitism and the Western “Narcissistic injury” 14 January 2023 Read Article

XENOPHONE TENEZAKIS Xenophon Tenezakis, a graduate of Sciences Po Strasbourg and of the ENS de Lyon (philosophy and history of political thought), is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy in secondary school in Nancy, and a doctoral student at the University of Paris-Est Créteil under the supervision of Guillaume Le Blanc; his thesis deals with the problem of freedom in the collective in Sartre and Guattari-Deleuze. The principal publications of Tenezakis include « L’engagement écologique et social à Nancy », Esprit , Jan-Feb 2021; “Foucault et la démocratie antique, face à Arendt et Castoriadis,” in Foucault – Repenser les rapports entre les Anciens et Les Modernes , Presses Universitaires de Laval/Vrin, 2020; “Sublime Catastrophe,” Esprit, Jan-Feb 2020 ; “Réflexions spinozistes sur le rapport entre miracle et démocratie”, Implications philosophiques , March 2018; and “Sécularisation et bio-politique chez Spinoza,” Astérion , 2016. Praxis et crise écologique: comment penser au travers de Sartre à la fois l’origine de la catastrophe écologique et son dépassement 11 March 2021 Read Article

NICOLAS TAJAN Nicolas Tajan is a psychoanalyst and an associate professor at the graduate school of Human and Environmental studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is a member of Le Pari de Lacan and the President of International Mental Health Professionals Japan. He is the author of a book published in 2021 entitled "Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan", and co-edited with Patrick Martin-Mattera and Céline Masson a volume in French entitled "Pain at Work" (2022). Nicolas Tajan practices psychoanalysis in Kyoto, Japan. 臨床の終焉 25 August 2022 Read Article La fin de la clinique 11 March 2022 Read Article

JULIANE PRADE-WEISS Juliane Prade-Weiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany. She is author of Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining (Bloomsbury, 2020), editor of (M)Other Tongues: Literary Reflexions of a Difficult Distinction (2013), as well as co-editor of Schuld in the Anthropocene (with Benjamin Lewis Robinson, special issue of The Germanic Review 96.2 [2021]). She has published in English and in German on infantile language, human-animal studies, life writing, multilingualism, exile and migration, reciprocity and violence, as well as participation and complicity. Anticipatory Anxiety, Proleptic Mourning: Grieving Pandemic and Ecological Losses 21 June 2022 Read Article

ANDERS KØLLE Anders Kølle is lecturer of Communication Arts at Khon Kaen University, Thailand. Holding a PhD in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School he has taught media and philosophy at several universities, including the University of Copenhagen and Assumption University, Bangkok. His research focuses on the impact of modern technologies on contemporary artistic practices. His publications include The Technological Sublime (Singapore: Delere Press, 2018), Beyond Reflection (New York: Atropos Press, 2013). Dasein in Drag and Diamond Dust Shoes 29 September 2023 Read Article Polka Dots and Post-industrial Humanity: On Yayoi Kusama and our Dotted World 30 April 2023 Read Article Say “Cheese” to Critical Theory: The Role of the Smiley in Late Capitalist Society 21 February 2023 Read Article

OSAMU NISHITANI Osamu Nishitani is professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. After studying law at Tokyo University, he studied French thought and literature in University of Paris VIII. He has taught mainly at the graduate school of TUFS, where he was in charge of the transdisciplinary course “global studies.” He is currently a member of the scientific committee of Institute of Advanced Studies-Nantes. Nishitani is the author of Fushi No Wonderland (1990) [trans. Wunderlande der Unsterblichkeit, 2015], which deals with the obliteration of the subject. He has also authored Yoru no kodou ni fureu [Touching the palpitations of the night ] (1995), Sekaishi no Rinkai (Critique of universal history, Iwanami-shoten, 2001), Tero tono Sensou towa nanika [What is the war on terrorism?] (Ibun-sha, 2002), Risei no Tankyu [In search of lost reason] (Iwanami-shoten, 2010), After Fukushima Chronicle—Where is our Future (2014), and An empire of Freedom, baptised “Amerique” (2016). « La solution finale » au problème Gaza-Hamas de l’Israël 21 November 2023 Read Article

ANTON ROBERT Anton Robert est docteur en chimie physique, et bifurque vers l’épistémologie. Il s’intéressera notamment à la question de l’écriture en biologie en s’engageant dans une thèse encadrée par Maël Montévil. Son premier article dans Philosophy World Democracy est issu d’un travail qui manifeste son expérience du monde académique avec des outils conceptuels qu'il s'approprie. L’arrêt de l’histoire des sciences 18 May 2023 Read Article

COLETTE TRON Colette Tron is a French journalist and author. Her work focuses on the usage of and experimentation regarding different mediums of communication (radio, books, theater, audiovisual, multimedia, etc.) and their usage. She collaborates with artists from different disciplines both within and outside of France. She is the founder of Alphabetville, an organization dedicated to researching, experimenting with, creating and disseminating ideas on the relationship between language, writing and media.

MARÍA DEL ROSARIO ACOSTA LÓPEZ María del Rosario Acosta López is Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies and Cooperating Faculty in the Department of Philosophy in UC Riverside. She teaches and conducts research on Romanticism and German Idealism, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Political European Philosophy, and more recently, on the areas of Decolonial and Latin American studies. She is the author of a book on silence and art in German Romanticism (2006) and a monograph on Friedrich Schiller and the political sublime (2008), and has edited and co-edited volumes and special issues on Hegel (2008), Schiller (2008 and 2018), Critique in German Philosophy (2020), Contemporary Political Philosophy (2010, 2013 and 2014), and Philosophy and Memory in Colombia (2016, 2019, 2023), among others. She is currently working on the manuscript of her next book, Grammars of Listening: Philosophical Approaches to Memory after Trauma (forthcoming in Spanish with Herder and in English with Fordham UP) and a book co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy, The Unstoppable Murmur of Being-Together (forthcoming with Fordham UP).

ROBERT BERNASCONI Robert Bernasconi Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Besides his seminal contributions in the form of The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (1985), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993), How to Read Sartre (2007), are his numerous essays and edited and co-edited volumes on nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, notably Time and Metaphysics (1982), Re-Reading Levinas (1991), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2001). Bernasconi has spearheaded research in critical philosophy of race through texts like Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (with Sybil Cook, 2003), Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation (2005) through the interpretations of the works of Otttobah Cugoano, Frederick Douglas, Antenor Firmin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Frantz Fanon. He is a founding editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race and the also the editor of Levinas Studies and Eco-Ethica.

CHARBEL N. EL-HANI Charbel N. El-Hani is full professor of History and Philosophy of Biology at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Coordinator of the History, Philosophy, and Biology Teaching Lab (LEFHBio) and the National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE). He works in the areas of science education research, philosophy of biology, ecology, and ethnobiology.