Selected Writings of Teshome H. Gabriel Third Cinema, Nomadic Aesthetics, and Storytelling

Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He earned his Ph.D. with Distinction from the University of Chicago in 1992 after undergraduate and Master's degrees in literature and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. He writes widely on Indian history, historiography, public and popular culture in India, the Indian diaspora, colonialism, human rights, and the architecture of nonviolence, Gandhi, and the global politics of knowledge systems. His 20 authored or edited books include the two-volume Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City (2013); Political Hinduism: The Religious Imagination in Public Spheres (ed., 2009); The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (2005); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (2005); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (2003); Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (2002); India and Civilizational Futures: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics II (2019); The Fury of Covid-19: The Passions, Journeys, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus (2020); The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (2022); and, most recently, Insurgency and the Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India (2022).
His scholarly work has been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Korean, Arabic, and Persian. Works in progress include a book on the history of colonial India told through stories, a study of internet Hinduism, and a book on the American architect of nonviolence, James M. Lawson. A two-volume collection of his essays on Gandhi will be published by Orient BlackSwan in late 2023. He also has the distinction of being listed among the "101 Most Dangerous Professors in America" in David Horowitz's book, The Professors, quite likely the only fifteen minutes of fame he will ever have in his life.

Oliver Fuke is an independent researcher based in London, UK. He has worked extensively on the independent and collaborative work of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, curating Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter-Cinema (2016), co-curating a series of exhibitions with Nicolas Helm-Grovas, and editing the book The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation (BFI, 2023). With Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, he co-curated Trevor Mathison: From Signal to Decay: Volumes 1-6 (2022-ongoing) and series of events on Black industrial/noise (2023-ongoing). Fuke has developed many other exhibitions and projects with artists and, with Kodwo Eshun and Helm-Grovas, is currently co-editing three volumes of Peter Wollen's writings.