Silvia Lippi Author

Silvia Lippi is a practicing psychoanalyst with a background in philosophy. She is a researcher affiliated with the University of Paris VII as well as the Institute of Applied Psychoanalytic Research in Milan (IRPA). Her most recent book is Rythme et mélancolie, on the relation of rhythm and free jazz to mania and melancholy. The Decision of Desire won the prestigious Prix d’Oedipe in France for new works in psychoanalytic theory.

Peter Skafish is director of the Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry and has held teaching and research positions at the Collège de France, the University of California, Berkeley, and McGill University.