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bios JONATHAN LAHEY 
DRONSFIELD

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield is 
a philosopher-artist. He has 
a PhD in Philosophy from the 
University of Warwick, with a 
British Academy scholarship, 
and a Postdoc from the Centre 
for Research in Modern 
European Philosophy, 
London, with a Leverhulme 
Special Research Fellowship. 
He has held positions at the 
Universities of Southampton 
and Reading, the Forum for 
European Philosophy at the 
London School of Economics, 
the Zürcher Hochschule 
der Künste Zurich and, 
most recently, the A.Pass 
Institute of Art Research, 
Brussels. He is author of three 
books, Cryptochromism, The 
Materiality of Theory, and 
Spinoza Lector, and many 
papers.  A long-term art-phi-
losophy research project, 
The Swerve of Freedom 
After Spinoza, comprising 
more than 50 performative 
readings, papers, videos, 
interventions, collaborations 
and dance, is in the throes of 
completion.

PAUL JAMES

Paul James is a PhD can-
didate at the University of 
Queensland affiliated with the 
ATCH research centre. 

GÖKHAN KODALAK

Gökhan Kodalak is a theo-
rist, teaching philosophies 
of architecture, nature, and 
cities at Pratt Institute; an 
architect, directing design 
studios at Parsons School 
of Design; and a historian, 
having recently completed 
his PhD dissertation titled 
“Spinoza and Architecture” 
at Cornell University. His 
discourse is published in 
journals such as Deleuze 

Studies (2018) and Footprint 
(2015), in books like Spinoza’s 
Philosophy of Ratio (2018) 
and Architectures of Life and 
Death (2021), and most recent-
ly, Kodalak has guest-edited 
a multi-issue project at Log 
(2020-21), introducing the 
understudied thinking of 
Spinoza, A. N. Whitehead, and 
Gilbert Simondon to cultivate 
alternative approaches to the 
interfused questions of na-
ture, philosophy, and design.

MICHAEL LEBUFFE

Michael LeBuffe is Professor 
and Baier Chair in Early 
Modern Philosophy at the 
University of Otago. LeBuffe 
has recently supervised work 
on Spinoza, Bacon, Kant, 
Descartes, sympathy, and 
personal identity. His work 
is primarily on Spinoza and 
includes From Bondage to 
Freedom: Spinoza on Human 
Excellence (OUP 2010), 
Spinoza on Reason (OUP 2018), 
and Spinoza’s Ethics: A Guide 
(OUP forthcoming).  

CARL MIKA

Carl Mika is Professor of 
Māori and Indigenous 
Studies, in Aotahi, University 
of Canterbury. His research 
focus is on Māori and 
Indigenous philosophies, as-
pects of Western philosophy, 
and on novel research ap-
proaches to postgrad research. 
He is of the Tuhourangi iwi.

SUE RUDDICK

Sue Ruddick is a Professor 
of Geography and Planning 
at the University of Toronto. 
Ruddick studied Architecture 
at the University of Waterloo 
(B.E.S.), Geography at 
McGill (M.A.) and Planning 
at UCLA (Ph.D).  Ruddick’s 
recent research focuses on 
the rethinking of the human 

nature divide in the context 
of emerging human-wildlife 
relations in the city. Ruddick’s 
scholarly publications rethink 
the subject through the 
conceptualizations of power, 
affect and the human-na-
ture divide in the writings of 
Spinoza, Deleuze, Agamben 
and Negri.

SEAN STURM

Sean Sturm teaches and 
leads the Higher Education 
programme in the School of 
Critical Studies in Education 
at the Faculty of Education 
and Social Work at the 
University of Auckland. He 
is a philosopher of education 
who researches at the inter-
section of critical university 
studies, writing studies and 
settler studies. 

STEPHEN TURNER

Stephen Turner teaches at 
the Leiden University Centre 
for the Arts in Society. He 
researches in the fields of set-
tler studies, third cinema and 
critical university studies.

EU JIN CHUA

Eu Jin Chua has a 
background in film studies 
and architecture, and has 
been teaching fine arts at the 
University of Auckland and 
spatial design at the Auckland 
University of Technology. He 
has published in Postmodern 
Culture, Screening the Past, 
and in various book volumes 
and exhibition catalogues. 
When based in London, he 
was a founding associate 
editor of Moving Image 
Review and Art Journal. He 
is completing a project on 
anti-anthropocentrism and 
naturalism in the history of 
film theory.

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