Caitlin Fisher is a member of the j_spot collective. She recently completed her PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University in the area of feminist hypertextual theory and practice and will begin teaching in Fine Arts, Cultural Studies at York University in September 2000.
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John S. Howard is a Dean's Scholar in the School of Law at Saint Louis University.  He holds a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University.  Recent publications include Subjectivity and Space: Deleuze and Guattari's BwO in the New World Order, in Kevin Jon Heller and Eleanor Kaufman, eds., Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and "Theory Against Itself: New Historicism's Return to Practice" in Jeffrey Williams, ed., PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, (New York: Routledge, 1995).  He is a regular contributor to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has written a number of essays and articles on Romantic theory and poetry, including a book-length study entitled Romantic Dialectics and the Politics of the Subject, currently under consideration for publication.  The focus of his scholarly work has recently shifted from literary theory to legal theory.  In the summer of 2000 he will join the firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal as a commercial litigator. His article, "Left Out: Politics and Postmodern Hermeneutics," appears in Vol. I., no. 2.
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Anh Hua is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme of History. His area of research includes cultural production, race, the body and imperialism. He has published an essay and a fictional piece in the Canadian Studies. His article, "Primitive Spectacle in Black Narcissus," appears in Vol. I, no. 2.
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Chris McCutcheon is a graduate student in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought and a candidate for the Graduate Diploma in German & European Studies at York University.  His work geminerally broaches the tensions between politics and ethics and their banes: representation, aesthetics, poetics, mimesis.  He is currently working on questions of subjectivity and violence in the work of Levinas and Freud. His article, "Adorno and the Muse of the Dialectic (a fable) ," appears in Vol. I, no. 2. He is one of the founding editors of j_spot: the Journal of Social and Political Thought.
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Wendy K. Olsen, is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Development Economics and Lecturer in Quantitative Development Economics, Development and Planning Project Centre, with a secondment to Graduate School as a Lecturer in Research Methods, at the University of Bradford, England. She holds a D.Phil. from Oxford. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Manchester and has taught at the University of Lancaster. Her publications include The Limits to Conditionality: Grassroots Evidence from Rural India, Oxford University Press, 2000, and Rural Indian Social Relations, Oxford University Press, 1996. She is currently preparing a book called Statistics for Skeptics. Her article, "Contract Labour and Bondage in Andhra Pradesh, India," co-authored with R.V. RamanaMurthy (see below), appears in Vol. I. no. 2. Her WebPages are at www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen
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Michael K. Palamarek is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought and in the Graduate Diploma in German and European Studies Programme, both at York University, Toronto, Canada. His work focuses on the interconnections between language and labour in contemporary critical social thought, especially that of the early and later Frankfurt School. He is currently preparing a project comparing the relation between language and labour in the work of Theodor Adorno and Mikhail Bakhtin, and is one of the founding editors of j_spot: the Journal of Social and Political Thought. For further information, please consult http://www.student.yorku.ca/~mikashy/index.htm.
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R.V. RamanaMurthy, Assistant Professor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India. His article, "Contract Labour and Bondage in Andhra Pradesh, India," co-authored with Wendy K. Olsen (see above), appears in Vol. I. no. 2.
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Jasmine Rault is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University. She completed the Master's programme in Women's Studies at York last year. Her article, " Grotesque Performativity: Orlan and The Limits of Materialization," appears in Vol. I, no. 2.
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M. Michael Schiff, along with Caitlin Fisher, founded the graduate programme website, SPoT, in late 1997, from which j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought devolved, and he was a grand panjandrum in the production and deliverance of the first 3 issues. He is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University. His research is in the areas and intersections of feminist theory, abjection, nations, sex and gender studies, intersexuality, and the arts and the senses, and invariably involves the work of Julia Kristeva and Mikhail Bakhtin. Publications include various proceedings from the several conferences at which he presents each term. The URL for his c.v. is available on request. His introduction to j_spot Vol. I, no. 2, is "'Weblish' or Perish, or, 'I Touch Myself': Reflections on j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought."
Ongoing projects include raising girl/boy twins. As well, M. is active in commercial and vanity website development. Finally, he is employed full-time by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, where he is administrative support to the Faculty of Graduate Studies' Council and its standing committees, produces the Faculty's Calendar and website for 38 graduate programmes...
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Jon Short is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University.  He holds a B.A. and M.A. in
Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.  His dissertation research seeks to apply revisions of the ontological tradition in the work of Adorno, Levinas, and Deleuze to contemporary ecological, ethical, and political thought  His article, "Outside of Power? or The Power of the Outside ," is published in Vol. I, no. 2.
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Kathryn Walker is a member of the j_spot collective and a doctoral candidate in Social and Political Thought, York University.
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