Éric Alliez is a philosopher and Professor at Université Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is author of Capital Times, The Signature of the World: Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy?, The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting, and Wars and Capital, with Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)), and coeditor of The Guattari Effect and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (MIT Press).

Jean-Claude Bonne is an art historian and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is author of L’Art roman de face et de profil: Le tympan de Conques, Le Sacre royal à l’époque de Saint-Louis (with Jacques Le Goff), and, with Éric Alliez, La Pensée-Matisse.