Rahel Jaeggi (*1966) is Professor of Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. As a visiting professor, she has taught at Yale University, Fudan University in Shanghai, New School for Social Research in New York, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies at Princeton University. The subject of her research includes the concepts of alienation, commodification or reification, ideology, form of life, institution, and solidarity. Jaeggi is considered a representative of contemporary critical theory. She has been director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change in Berlin since 2018.

Sabine Nuss was born in the Black Forest, worked as a trainee journalist for the Axel Springer Verlag Hamburg, and today is managing director of the Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, which publishes the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Rosa Luxemburg. She wrote her dissertation on property issues in a digital world and is a contributor to several newspapers. Her most recent book is entitled Keine Enteignung ist auch keine Lösung: Die große Wiederaneignung und das vergiftete Versprechen des Privateigentums. She is active on Twitter, and her online home can be found at nuss.in-berlin.de.