Colin Gardner is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught in the departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, the History of Art and Architecture and the Comparative Literature program. His most recent monograph is Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze and Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), which explores the use of sonic drop-outs in sound films in order to explore different organizations of chaos (Chaoids) that underlie the surface plane of narrative. This builds upon his previous book, Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a critical study of Samuel Beckett’s experimental work for film and television and two books for Manchester University Press’s ‘British Film Makers’ series: Joseph Losey (2004) and Karel Reisz (2006). He has also co-edited three anthologies: Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money (2024, Palgrave Macmillan), with Jennifer Vanderpool (UCSB); and two with Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University): Deleuze and the Animal (2017, for Edinburgh University Press) and Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art Ethics and Ecology with Guattari (2018, Bloomsbury Academic).