George Caffentzis este filosof politic, profesor de filosofie la University of Southern Maine, SUA, membru fondator şi coordonator al grupurilor Midnight Notes Collective şi Committee for Academic Freedom în Africa, autor a numeroase articole şi al cărţilor: Parole abusate, monete tosate e governocivile. La filosofia del denaro di John Locke, Roma, Istituto dell’ Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Trecanni, 1988; trad. engleza: Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money, New York, Autonomedia/Semiotext(e) Press, 1989; Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973–1992, New York, Autonomedia, 1992 (coeditare Midnight Notes Collective); A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities,Trenton, Africa World Press, 2000 (coeditare); Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War, New York, Autonomedia, 2001 (coeditare Midnight Notes Collective). (N. ed.)