About the Author

Dr. Shannon Bell is a performance philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action. Her books include: Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body (Indiana University Press, 1994); WHORE CARNIVAL (Autonomedia, 1995); Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell and Becki Ross (University of Toronto Press, 1997); New Socialisms: Futures Beyond Globalization, eds. Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, John R. Bell and Richard Westra (Routledge, 2004); and FAST FEMINISM (Autonomedia, 2010). Bell is an associate professor in Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. She teaches modern and postcontemporary theory, cyberpolitics, postidentity politics, aesthetics and politics, violent philosophy and fast feminism.