Joost de Bloois is Senior Lecturer of Cultural and Literary Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications include Politics of Withdrawal (with Pepita Hesselberth), a special issues of Rethinking Marxism on Italian post-workerism (with Monica Jansen and Frans-Willem Korsten), essays on Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito and Erri de Luca, as well as a monograph on the work of Alain Badiou and several co-authored handbooks in cultural studies.