Brian Holmes

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Brian Holmes is an American Born (California) theorist, writer and translator living in Paris, France. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend)^[1] from 1999 to 2001. and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Etudes^[2].

He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of the book 'Hieroglyphs of the Future' ^[3]. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North & South America, is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, the art magazines Springerin ^[4] (Austria) and Brumaria ^[5](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^[6], working on the issues geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog ^[7] under the same name ('Continental Drift') with the additional subtitle 'the other side of neoliberal globalization'.

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