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Gregory Flaxman is the Director of Global Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. An adjunct professor in the Department of Communication Studies, he is on the advisory board of the Program in Cultural Studies and is affiliated with American Studies. Flaxman’s research broadly concerns the relationship between art—especially cinema, literature, and more recently, painting—and philosophy. The author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy (Minnesota, 2011) and the editor of The Brain is the Screen (Minnesota, 2000), he is currently finishing a book on cinema and philosophy, collaborating on another devoted to “cinematic thinking,” and co-editing an anthology of philosophical writings on the cinema (“from Bergson to Badiou”). At the same time, he is co-editing a collection devoted to biopolitics in post-disciplinary societies. Recent and forthcoming work include essays on William and Henry James (“A More Radical Empiricism” for Deleuze and Pragmatism [Routledge 2014]), on Antoinin Artaud (for the Cambridge Companion to Film and Philosophy [Cambridge 2014]), and on the fate of film studies (“Out of Field: The Future of Film Studies” in Angelaki [2013]). This spring, Flaxman will be a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense before beginning a Mellon New Directions Fellowship dedicated to the researching the genealogy of off-screen space that runs from the painterly to the photomechanical to the digital arts.