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Brian Holmes is an American Born (California) theorist, writer and translator living in Paris, France. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend)1 from 1999 to 2001. and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Etudes2.
He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of the book 'Hieroglyphs of the Future' 3. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North & South America, is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, the art magazines Springerin4 (Austria) and Brumaria5(Spain) and the interdisciplinary journal Multitudes (France).
In recent years, Holmes has been co-organizing a series of seminars with the New York City based reading group 16 Beaver Group under the title Continental Drift6, working on the issues of geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog 7 under the same name ('Continental Drift') with the additional subtitle 'the other side of neoliberal globalization'.