Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

She is the author of numerous books including Precarious Life (Verso, 2004), Frames of War (Verso, 2009), and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press, 2015).

Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York.

She has written or edited eleven books, including The Communist Horizon and Crowds and Party.

Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Men Explain Things To Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell.

A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University.

His writing has appeared in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, USA, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London, UK.

His recent books include The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously (2017) and Disparities (Bloomsbury, 2016).