Peter Gaffney is Assistant Professor of philosophy, visual culture, and the public sphere at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, adjunct professor of cinema at University of Pennsylvania, and former Art Director at Leo Burnett Advertising, Prague. He has written on American politics and the public sphere for Salon.com, and is editor and co-author of “The Force of the Virtual: Deleuze, Science and Philosophy” (2010, University of Minnesota Press).