Brian Holmes is a professor of philosophy at the

European Graduate School The European Graduate School (EGS) is a private graduate school that operates in two locations: Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta. History It was founded in 1994 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland by the Swiss scientist, artist, and therapist, Pao ...

Saas-Fee Saas-Fee () is the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated on a high mountain plateau at 1,800 meters (5,900 feet), surrounded ...

, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) from 1999 to 2001 and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Études. He holds a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

and is the author of the book ''Hieroglyphs of the Future''. He was the English editor of publications for

Documenta ''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultura ...

X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North and South America, and is a frequent contributor to the international mailing list

Nettime Nettime is an internet mailing list proposed in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz (then half-jokingly called "the nettime brothers") at the second meeting of the " Medien Zentral Kommittee" during the Venice Biennale. Since 1998, Ted Byf ...

, the art magazines '' Springerin'' (Austria) and ''

Brumaria Brumaria is a Spanish artists and thinkers group founded in 2002 dedicated to publishing printed books, to disseminating essays and documents online, and to a collective art practice, in a multiple-and-intertwined methodology. Often its projects ...

''(Spain), and the interdisciplinary journal ''Multitudes'' (France). In recent years, Holmes has been co-organizing a series of seminars with the New York City–based reading group 16 Beaver Group under the title Continental Drift, working on the issues of

geopolitics Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ ''gê'' "earth, land" and πολιτική ''politikḗ'' "politics") is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. While geopolitics usually refers to ...

and geopoetics. He maintains a blog under the same name, with the subtitle "the other side of neoliberal globalization".

References

External links

Brian Holmes
faculty profile at the

. (Biography, bibliography, articles, and video lecture)
Continental Drift
Blog by Brian Holmes {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmes, Brian Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American contemporary art American activists Academic staff of European Graduate School University of California, Berkeley alumni Philosophers of technology