Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. He coauthored Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus (Minnesota, 1987) with Félix Guattari. He is author of many books, including Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation; Cinema 1: The Movement-Image; Cinema 2: The Time-Image; The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque; and Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, all published in English by the University of Minnesota Press.

David Lapoujade is professor of philosophy at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne. His books include Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson; The Lesser Existences: Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual (both from Minnesota); and Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Charles J. Stivale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is translator of Deleuze's Logic of Sense and translator of Gilles Deleuze, From A to Z.