Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the รcole normale supรฉrieure in Paris. His Columbia University Press books include Platoโs Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters (2015) and Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 (2018).
Jason E. Smith is chair of the Graduate Art MFA program at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has written widely on contemporary philosophy and translated Alain Badiou and รlisabeth Roudinescoโs Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue (Columbia, 2014). He is currently writing a book on automation and work.
Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiouโs works.