Andrea Mubi Brighenti is contract professor of social theory at the university of Trento, Italy. Currently he is visiting research fellow in the department of Economic and Social Sciences at ParisTech university, Paris. He researches both empirically and theoretically into space, power and society, with a focus on the transformations of urban environments through the technologies of control and the practices of resistance and play. He is the editor of the independent online web journal Lo Squaderno and a corresponding editor at Metropolitics.