Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent publications include Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism and the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics. He is currently working on books about the theory of hegemony, 21st-century socialism, and the crisis of neoliberalism. He writes regularly on politics and culture for the British press and is also active as a DJ and sound-system organizer.