Alexei Penzin is a philosopher and a founding member of the collective Chto Delat (“What is to be done?”). He is a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Penzin has taught philosophy and aesthetic theory at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, and other institutions. He is author of the essay Rex Exsomnis (2012), and co-editor of Boris Arvatov's Art and Production (2017) and Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (Bloomsbury, 2021).