# Brian Holmes

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**Brian Holmes** is a professor of philosophy at the [European Graduate School](/source/European_Graduate_School) in [Saas-Fee](/source/Saas-Fee), Switzerland,[1] where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend)[2] from 1999 to 2001 and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Études.[3]

He holds a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures from the [University of California at Berkeley](/source/University_of_California_at_Berkeley) and is the author of the book *Hieroglyphs of the Future*.[4] He was the English editor of publications for [Documenta](/source/Documenta) X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North and South America, and is a frequent contributor to the international mailing list [Nettime](/source/Nettime), the art magazines *[Springerin](/source/Springerin)*[5] (Austria) and *[Brumaria](/source/Brumaria)*[6] (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](/source/16_Beaver_Group) under the title Continental Drift,[7] working on the issues of [geopolitics](/source/Geopolitics) and geopoetics. He maintains a blog[8] under the same name, with the subtitle "the other side of neoliberal globalization".

## References

1. ["Brian Holmes Faculty Page at European Graduate School (Biography, bibliography and video lecture)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124033150/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/brian-holmes/biography). [European Graduate School](/source/European_Graduate_School). Archived from [the original](http://www.egs.edu/faculty/brian-holmes/biography/) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2010-11-29.

1. [Brian Holmes bio](http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/holmesbio.html)

1. [Counter Cartographies Collective – Brian Holmes Visit to Triangle](http://www.countercartographies.org/activities/news/brian-holmes-visit-to-triangle.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070827140038/http://www.countercartographies.org/activities/news/brian-holmes-visit-to-triangle.html) August 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

1. [""Hieroglyphs of the Future - art and politics for a networked era" by Brian Holmes, WHW/Arkzin Communications, Zagreb, 2003 (ISBN 953-6542-83-8)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071012114341/http://www.neural.it/nnews/hieroglyphsofthefuturee.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.neural.it/nnews/hieroglyphsofthefuturee.htm) on 2007-10-12.

1. [springerin – hefte fuer gegenwartskunst](http://www.springerin.at/)

1. [Brumaria.net - Publication](http://www.brumaria.net/erzio/en/publication.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080323001243/http://www.brumaria.net/erzio/en/publication.html) March 23, 2008 at the Wayback Machine

1. [Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes](http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/chapterone.htm)

1. ["Brian Holmes' blog"](http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/)

## External links

- [Brian Holmes](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124033150/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/brian-holmes/biography) faculty profile at the [European Graduate School](/source/European_Graduate_School). (Biography, bibliography, articles, and video lecture)
- [Continental Drift](http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/) Blog by Brian Holmes

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