About Eliran Bar-El and Stefanos Roimpas

Eliran Bar-El is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. His research interests center on the sociology of knowledge, ideas, and intellectual interventions. The title of his research thesis is Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon. He is a translator in the philosophy series for Resling Publishing, where his translations include Slavoj Žižek's "Demanding the Impossible" (2013), "Antigone" (2016), and Terry Eagleton’s "The Meaning of Life" (2007). He is also co-founder of "Critical Masses." Stefanos Roimpas (Athens, 1989) is an architect and a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. His research interests focus on architectural production of meaning, representation and perspective projection. He was shortlisted for the RIBA Silver Medal in 2013 and gained work experience at CRABstudio London and OMA Rotterdam. In 2014, he curated the pavilion of Cyprus at the 14th Architecture Venice Biennale.