Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture John Beck

John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics (SUNY, 2001) and Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) co-editor of American Visual Cultures (Continuum, 2005). Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at Winchester School of Art and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the University of Southampton. He co-edits Cultural Politics (Duke UP) with John Armitage and Doug Kellner, and he edits the book series Theory Now for Polity Press. His research areas include critical theory, art, media, literary studies, technology, urbanism and militarisation of daily life.