—– Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher at Queen Mary University of London.1 He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He writes frequently at the cross of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo. His current project is a book about the history of the notion of surplus across biology, psychoanalysis, knowledge economy and the environmental discourse.2
—– He is a member of the Edufactory collective and since 2000 he has been editor of the mailing list Rekombinant. In Amsterdam, together with Katrien Jacobs and the Institute of Network Cultures, he organised the Art and Politics of Netporn conference (2005) and the C’Lick Me festival (2007). At Queen Mary University of London he co-organised the series of seminars The Art of Rent and the research network The Factory of the Common (2008-2009). Together with Wietske Maas he developed the art project Urbanibalism.