Grafton Tanner (he/him) is a writer, lecturer, and cultural critic specializing in media, memory, and the politics of nostalgia. He is the author of The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (2021), Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (2016), and The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (2020). Discover Grafton’s ideas in “Nostalgia’s Empire: A Conversation with Grafton Tanner and Johny Pitts”.

Jeremy R. Smith (he/him) is an independent researcher and translator. He is one of the co-founding members of Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy and the translator of François Laruelle’s Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psychoanalysis (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Listen to Jeremy on LEPHT HAND/Acid Horizon.