Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea, and Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle). He is the series editor of The Italian List for Seagull and sits on the editorial board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.