Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He additionally is Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and is a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (2005), Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2008), Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (2009), Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy (2013), and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone (2019), all published by Northwestern University Press. He also is the author of Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is the co-author, with Catherine Malabou, of Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Columbia University Press, 2013). He co-edited, with Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančič, Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). His latest books are Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital (Columbia University Press, 2024) and, with co-author Lorenzo Chiesa, God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers (Bloomsbury, 2025). He currently is working on several new book projects on such topics as: Jacques Lacan’s 1950s-era “return to Freud”; a dialectical materialist engagement with select aspects of Anglo-American philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and metaphysics; the fate of the Kantian transcendental from German idealism through the present; and a Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to affective neuroscience as well as theoretical models of the “predictive” and “extended” mind/brain (with this last project as the third volume of his trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism).