Peter Bratsis is associate professor of liberal studies at the Graduate Center and of political science at Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. His publications include the books Everyday Life and the State, Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered (co-edited with Stanley Aronowitz) and, most recently, Live Theory: The Aronowitz Reader (co-edited with Bruno Gulli, Kristin Lawler, and Michael Pelias). He is also a founding member of the Institute for the Radical Imagination.