Biographies
Essay Contributors
Hammam Aldouri holds a PhD in philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University (London) and a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies from the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (New York). He currently teaches at Moore College of Art and Design and Temple University (Philadelphia).
Out of the Woods is a transnational political research and theory collective, a loose grouping of decolonial, small-c communist, antiracist queer-feminist thinkers working together to think through the problem of ecological crisis.
Nick Thoburn is author of Anti-Book: On< the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (2016) and Deleuze, Marx and Politics (2003). He writes about communism, publishing, housing, and social theory, and teaches in the sociology department at the University of Manchester.
Tools for Action is an artist group and collaborative platform to open the way for experimentation and poetic forms of engagement. We develop open source tools for collective leverage, catalyzing self-organization through skill-sharing and participatory making processes. Our practice oscillates between performance and protest, searching for new forms of public assembly and lines of flight in the face of oppression, exploitation and surveillance. Tools for Action was founded by Artúr van Balen (NL-HU) in 2012, who has continuously remained a core member of the group. Artúr van Balen and Tomás Espinosa collaborated under Tools for Action from 2017-2019. Current members include both Artúr and Shailoh Philips.
Editorial Contributors
Claudia Firth recently completed a PhD in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, exploring radical informal learning in relation to political histories, looking particularly at the reading group as a social entity. Other research interests include resistance and alternative organization and listening as a feminist practice. Claudia also has extensive experience of facilitating workshops across both cultural and activist sectors.
Marc Herbst is an editor, researcher, artist, writer with a broad and interdisciplinary practice. His cosmopolitical ethico-poet concerns influened his recent co-editing of the book Everything Gardens! Growing through the Ruins of Modernity (ADOCS/NGBK,2020). Currently he is looking at relationality, as expressed in and through bodies and their needs.
Robby Herbst is an inter-disciplinary artist, writer, and thinker. His work explores ways language can activate social and political movements. His art takes the form of drawing, publication, organizing, group-work, and object making. He instigates the geographically sited critical-landscape projects of the Llano Del Rio Collective. With Llano Del Rio Collective he's currently developing a socio-emotional guide to the politics of homelessness for the Skid Row History Musuem in Los Angeles.
Amber Hickey is a Faculty Fellow in US Visual Culture (American Studies Program) at Colby College. Amber's research and teaching focuses on art activism, critical Indigenous studies, military visuality, and radical pedagogy. She is editor of A Guidebook of Alternative Nows (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2012). Recent publications include “Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing,” Aperture, June 4, 2020, and “Rupturing Settler Time: Visual Culture and Geographies of Indigenous Futurity,” World Art 9:2 (Summer 2019): 163-180.