Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation

Dominique Routhier is a writer, critic, and independent researcher based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published extensively in Scandinavian journals such as K&K, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, and Paletten as well as internationally in Rethinking Marxism, Historical Materialism, Boundary 2 online, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Left Review Sidecar, among others. His debut book, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation, was published by Verso Books in 2023.

Jeffrey West Kirkwood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at SUNY Binghamton. He is the author of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 and has published in Critical Inquiry, October, Grey Room, Texte zur Kunst, Jacobin, and elsewhere. He received his PhD from Princeton University and has previously been a fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and the IKKM at Bauhaus University. He lives in New York City and Berlin.

Nadja Millner-Larsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, NYU. She is the author of Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action (University of Chicago Press, 2023), which reconsiders the contested intersections of art and radical politics through the history of the anti-art group Black Mask. Nadja’s writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Critical Correspondence, Grey Room, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Art Monthly, Triple Canopy, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She also co-edited a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on “Queer Commons” (2018). Nadja was an NEH postdoctoral scholar at the Getty Research Institute and a Helena Rubinstein fellow in critical studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has previously held positions in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She received her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. At XE, Nadja teaches a range of courses on interdisciplinary methods, critical theory, and political aesthetics.

Soyoung Yoon is Assistant Professor and Program Director of Art History & Visual Studies at the Department of the Arts, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. Yoon received her PhD from Stanford University and holds a BA from Seoul National University. She was also a Faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) from 2012 until 2023. Yoon’s research focuses on politics of mobility and rhetorics of testimony, witnessing, and storytelling in the moving image; she attends to questions of “the apparatus” in relation to the moving image, the body-in-motion, and the authorial voice. Yoon was a recipient of a Hauser & Wirth Research Fellowship for her work on the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in 2019-20, and her essay “Do a Number: The Facticity of the Voice, or Reading Stop-and-Frisk Data” was awarded a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2016-17. Yoon is currently at work on two book projects: Walkie Talkie and TV Buddhas.