Creston DavisCreston Davis (PhD, Philosopht, Virginia) is the founding director of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, a fully accredited (European Union) hybrid virtual/physical institution located in Dublin, New York, and Santiago, Chile. (This was and is amajor innovation, offering no-cost PhD degrees in social and political thought and philosophy taught by volunteer professors including Alain Badiou, Luce Irigaray, Jean-Luc Nancy, Drucilla Cornell, and Lewis Gordon.) He is a coeditor (with Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Jeffrey Robbins) of the Columbia series Insurrections, the coauthor (with Crockett, Robbins, and Noelle Vahanian) of An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Columbia, 2016), and the coeditor (with Zizek, and Crockett) of Hegel and the Infinite (Columbia, 2011), among a number of other books. Read More Read Less