1. Nora M. Alter is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana University Press, 1996), Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film (University of Michigan Press, 2002), Chris Marker (University of Illinois Press, 2006), and co-editor with Lutz Koepnick of Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (Berghahn Books, 2004).
2. Lutz Koepnick is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Film Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has published widely on film, media theory, visual culture, new media aesthetics, and intellectual history from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. His most recent book project, On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.
3. Richard Langston is an Associate Professor of German literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism (Northwestern University Press, 2008), he is the lead translator of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's History and Obstinacy (Zone, forthcoming). His forthcoming book project on Negt and Kluge is called “Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity.”