Oliver Marchart is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne. Co-editor (with Simon Critchley) of "Laclau: A Critical Reader" (2004) and author of six books written in German including "Beginning Anew: Hannah Arendt, Revolution and Globalisation" (2005), and "Techno-Colonialism: Theory and Imaginary Cartography of Culture and the Media" (2004).