Brian Holmes is a cultural critic living in Paris and Chicago, writing 
about art, activism and social change, and traveling restlessly around 
the world to do it. He has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures 
from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of two 
books: _Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era_ 
(Zagreb: Arkzin/WHW, 2002) and _Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: 
Essays in Reverse Imagineering_ (New York: Autonomedia, 2007), as well 
as innumerable articles published in journals, catalogues, books, tracts 
and weblogs in many different languages. He was the English editor of 
publications for Documenta X, has collaborated extensively with the 
artist/activist groups Ne Pas Plier, Bureau d'Etudes and (still ongoing) 
the 16 Beaver Group, and has been a longstanding contributor to Nettime 
and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes, among 
others.
His work focusing an autonomous, freely distributed, politically engaged criticism of art, technology, economics and culture, 
with a focus on the intensifying contradiction between abstract, 
unitary, finance-driven globalization and the territorial grounds of 
human ecology.