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Brian Holmes is a professor of philosophy at theEuropean Graduate School inSaas-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'Études.[3]
He holds a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures from theUniversity of California at Berkeley and is the author of the bookHieroglyphs of the Future.[4] He was the English editor of publications forDocumenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North and South America, and is a frequent contributor to the international mailing listNettime, the art magazinesSpringerin[5] (Austria) andBrumaria[6] (Spain), and the interdisciplinary journalMultitudes (France).
In recent years, Holmes has been co-organizing a series of seminars with the New York City–based reading group16 Beaver Group under the title Continental Drift,[7] working on the issues ofgeopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog[8] under the same name, with the subtitle "the other side of neoliberal globalization".
