Notes on Contributors

Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the chair for aesthetics and philosophy of art. He has previously taught at the University Paris 8 and has held invited professorships at the universities of UC-Berkeley, Weimar, Belo Horizonte, Vienna, Columbia, and Yale. Among his books in English are Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017), Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media (2021), and The Share of Perspectives (2025).Sofya Aptekar is associate professor of urban studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (2023) and The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States (2015), and coauthor of Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (2024).Braxton Brewington is a sociology PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include social movements, media, political sociology, and race and ethnicity. He holds a BA in journalism and mass communications from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.Mattia Di Pierro is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy. His research mainly concerns contemporary political thought and theories of modernity and of democracy. He is the author of Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy: Democracy, Indeterminacy, Institution (2023), L'esperienza del mondo: Claude Lefort e la fenomenologia del politico (2020), and numerous articles on history of political thought and political philosophy.Mariana Larison is full researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a regular associate professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento. She studied philosophy in Buenos Aires, Paris, and São Paulo. She received a PhD in philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Sorbonne-Panthéon in 2009, specializing in the phenomenological tradition, in particular the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. She is currently researching the possibilities of a post-constitutional phenomenology based on the notion of institution. In addition to numerous articles in national and international journals, she has published the following works: L’être en forme: Dialectique et phénoménologie dans la dernière philosophie de Merleau-Ponty (2016) and Vers une nouvelle phénoménologie de l'institution : Avec et au-delà de Merleau-Ponty (2023). She has also collaborated on important translations into Spanish, including Merleau-Ponty's La institutión, la pasividad (2012–16).Guillaume Le Blanc is professor of social and political philosophy at Université Paris Cité. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of Vies ordinaires vies précaires (2007), L'invisibilité sociale (2009), Dedans dehors: La condition d’étranger (2010), La philosophie comme contre-culture (2014), and La solidarité des éprouvés: Pour une histoire politique de la pauvreté (2022).Élise Marrou is assistant professor of contemporary philosophy at Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on first-person authority and contemporary conceptions of subjectivity at the crossroads of the Wittgensteinian and phenomenological traditions. She has recently published Wittgenstein en France (2022), “La prose des mondes: Le Proust de Descombes” (2023), and, with Denis Bonnay and Henri Wagner, Wittgenstein entre les lignes, Les Études philosophiques (2024).Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, scholar, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities, and the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activisms collection at Columbia University. Among her books are Puerto Rican Jam (1997), Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (2004), and Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism in Native Nations and Latinx America (2017). From 2016 to 2018, Negrón-Muntaner served as the codirector of the “Unpayable Debt” working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, where she cocreated the Caribbean Debt Syllabus and Global Debt Syllabus. She later launched the award-winning Valor y Cambio (2019–present), a participatory, just economy experience in Puerto Rico and New York (valorycambio.org).Oliver Precht is a philosopher and literary scholar at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. His work focuses on political philosophy, Marxist theory, French post-1945 thought, the ontological turn in anthropology, and Latin American culture and literature. Since 2022, he has led the research project “Paradoxes of Emancipation,” a partnership between the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and the Universidade de São Paulo. His publications include Heidegger: Zur Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung seiner Philosophie (2020) and Der rote Faden: Maurice Merleau-Ponty und die Politik der Wahrnehmung (2023).Judith Revel is full professor of contemporary French philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2023–28). She specializes in contemporary French and Italian thought. Revel is president of the Scientific Council of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine. Her work focuses on the different ways in which philosophy conceives history, the present and events since 1945, and how the regimes of historicity determine the representation of politics. She is the author of Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty: Ontologie politique, présentisme et histoire (2015) and coeditor of Folie, langage, littérature (2019), a volume of unpublished texts by Foucault, and Penser l’événement (2023).Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She organizes with the Debt Collective and is a postdoc at Concordia University's Social Justice Centre. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Nation, and elsewhere.Roberto Terzi teaches philosophy at the Académie de Crétéil (France) and is an associate member of the Archives Husserl in Paris. He is the author of Il tempo del mondo: Husserl, Heidegger, Patočka (2009), Evento e genesi: Heidegger e il problema di una cosmologia fenomenologica (2016), Evento, storia, tecnica: Saggi su Heidegger (2024), and numerous articles on phenomenology.Jason Thomas Wozniak is associate professor and coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change Program at West Chester University. He is a long-time researcher and organizer with Debt Collective and a member of the Coalition Against Campus Debt, which in 2024 published Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities. He also codirects the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (lapes.org).

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