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Editors: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Avi Alpert

Shifter’s 13th issue focuses on the importance and impact of this philosopher, who, though unknown, seems to have been one of the most important thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st century. Belissop’s thought has been instrumental in changing the entire terrain of intellectual, artistic and activist practice over the past seven decades of her immense production. Her revolutionary work in activist “interventionism,” and her Marxist, materialist commitment never seemed to conflict with her important contribution to experimental poetry. Her philosophical treatises managed to comfortably accommodate both psychoanalysis and neuro-psychology while simultaneously problematizing both disciplines. Her expertise and influence in so many varied disciplines made her something of an Aristotle of our age. Of course, like Aristotle, she was not right in everything she said, but that she said it made so much of our own work possible.

Belissop was an untimely thinker – indeed a thinker whose true time has not come and perhaps never will. We are using this occasion as an opportunity to reflect on critical practice at the present time. The invention of Belissop (and her inventiveness) gives us the opportunity to explore concepts that have yet to be named or written, to test out ideas, to question the history of critical theory that has swept all fields of practice, to engage in a dialog with someone so capacious, so brilliant, that they could never really exist.

In this issue we present aphorisms, essays, interviews, letters of friendship and admiration, poems and artwork that grow out of the possibilities opened by her analyses. The aim of the issue is simply to continue Belissop’s legacy – to explore the multifaceted themes that her work touches on and helps animate within our own lives.

Contributor Bios:

Avi Alpert is a writer and theorist living in New York City. His research of late has focused on Continental philosophy, inter-cultural contact, and the relationship between the two. He was recently a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Critical Theory section of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Pedro Barateiro (b. 1979 in Almada, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. He completed his MFA in Visual Arts at the Mälmo Art Academy, Sweden in 2006, and is currently completing a residency at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and together with artist Ricardo Valentin will edit the book Activity. Recent exhibitions include: 16th Biennale of Sydney – Revolutions: Forms That Turn (2008); 5th Berlin Biennale – When Things Cast no Shadows (2008).

Natalie Bell is an artist and writer based in New York City. She is a MA candidate in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. www.nataliebell.org

Rori B. S. Bellow is a pseudonym for a biblical scholar at a northeastern research university. The “B. S.” in Rori B. S. Bellow stands for “biblical studies.” This pseudonym is spelled very differently than Krusty the Clown’s pseudonym Rory B. Bellows on the Simpsons. Any perceived similarities between the two pseudonyms result purely from a logocentric reading strategy.

Joseph Bradshaw is a poet, currently at work on An Apocalypse of George Oppen (an earlier version of which was published by Cannibal Books in 2008 as the limited-edition chapbook, This Ocean, or Oppen Series). Other recent work appears or is forthcoming in the periodicals Big Bridge, Cultural Society, PFS Post, and Rain Taxi. He lives in Portland.

Kalle Brolin is a Swedish artist with an MA in Fine Arts from the University of Umeå in 2004. Since then working and exhibiting internationally, he has a special interest in aesthetics of future social movements, and in essayistic connections. www.kallebrolin.com

Catherine Czacki attended the University of Texas at El Paso 1998-1999 for Political Science, the San Francisco Art Institute of California from 1999-2003, graduating with a BFA in New Genres. In 2004 she traveled to Warsaw, Poland for one year, where she was continuing her artistic endeavors as a recipient of the Rector
Scholarship for Independent Research at the University of Warsaw. She graduated from Columbia University with her MFA in May 2008.

Susana Gaudêncio was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Susana has a Painting degree from the Fine Arts School, University of Lisbon. She completed her MFA in Combined Media at Hunter College, CUNY, in 2008. In January 2009, she had a solo show in Carlos Carvalho Gallery and was included in the exhibition “Portuguese Artists Abroad“ at the Electricity Museum, both In Lisbon. Currently, among other projects, Susana is working for a video installation at the Front Project Space at the ISE Foundation in New York.

Juan Manuel Ipiña is a cave painter / pornographer based in Buenos Aires. His work has appeared in various patagonian archaeological sites, a few galleries in Buenos Aires, and museums in different regions of the world. He is interested in the desert of the real. Future projects include, no future projects. Life as a continous present.

Susan Jahoda works in a range of genres including video, sound, photography, text, performance, and installation. Her works have been exhibited widely, including venues in London, Paris, Venice, Basel, Seoul, Russia, and New York. She has received numerous honors and awards as well as grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Jahoda has co-curated a number of exhibitions and screenings including Global Priority (2002) and Setting in Motion (2006). She is the co-arts editor for the journal Rethinking Marxism.

Runo Lagomarsino participated in the Whitney Independent
Study Program in 2007-2008, New York and he holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden from 2003. Working in different mediums such as video, drawing, sculptural objects, and photography, his practice explores how today’s political and social environments have developed through different discursive and historical processes, which produce representations and metaphors from which we read and reread history and society.

Sreshta Rit Premnath is an artist based in New York City. He has a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from Bard College. He was a Whitney Independent Program fellow in 2008 and will attend Skowhegan in the summer of 2009. He has shown his work and curated shows at galleries including SKE (Bangalore), Bose Pacia (NYC), Thomas Erben (NYC) and Rotunda (NYC). His work has been reviewed in Flash Art, New York Times and Art Forum.com amongst others. He founded Shifter Magazine in 2004. www.circumscript.net

Pieter Spealman currently resides in Brooklyn where studies Biochemistry and works as an IT technician.

Anna Vitale is from Detroit and lives in Ann Arbor. You can find more of her writing in Model Homes and With + Stand. She edits the online audio journal textsound and has been a freeform DJ at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor for almost 10 years.

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