Brian Holmes is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,[1] where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend)[2] from 1999 to 2001. and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Etudes.[3]
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'.[4] 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 [5] (Austria) and Brumaria [6](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,[7] working on the issues of geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog [8] under the same name ('Continental Drift') with the additional subtitle 'the other side of neoliberal globalization'.