Owen Glyn-Williams holds a PhD in Philosophy and teaches philosophy at DePaul University. He specializes in early modern and contemporary social and political thought, and recently defended a dissertation titled Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault. The project reconstructs Hobbes’s concept of ‘factions’ – the agent or efficient cause of civil wars – and utilizes this concept to develop an account of group-formation as a distinct object of state and governmental power. He is currently in the process of preparing a book manuscript based on the project. Owen co-edited the volume Making Communism Hermeneutical and has translated several pieces by Jacques Rancière as well as Sophie Wahnich’s book The French Revolution in Theory.

Gil got his Ph.D. in philosophy at DePaul University in 2019 and lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Loyola University Chicago and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research He specializes in early modern metaphysics, with substantial interest in German idealism and 20th century continental philosophy, but because the world is in an apocalyptically bad place he’s had to learn a lot of Marxism and critical theory stuff just to make sense of things. He’s published articles in Philosophy Today, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, and Décalages. His first book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, was published in 2022 by Edinburgh University Press. He’s also translated several books about Spinoza.

William Paris is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. His research focuses on history of African American philosophy, critical theory, 20th century continental philosophy, and political philosophy. He is the author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press). He has published on critical theory and self-emancipation, Frantz Fanon and gender, Sylvia Wynter's phenomenology of imagination, and C.L.R. James and Hannah Arendt. He has also published articles on subjects concerning critical theory and utopian consciousness as well as a defense of the explanatory work of critical theory and race in Puncta and Critical Philosophy of Race. He has recently published an article in the New German Critique on critical theory and self-emancipation.