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Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place, Imaginary Politics, Snow Sensitive Skin (a collaboration with Taylor Brady), and Disaster Suites. Music for Porn is forthcoming. He’s currently co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first which, “For a Realist Literature,” appears in the Chicago Review. An active participant in the Nonsite Collective, Rob lives in San Francisco. Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based on a historical review of pirate utopias. His latest books are Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology (with Christopher Bamford and Kevin Townley – Lindisfarne, 2007) and Black Fez Manifesto (Autonomedia, 2008).