Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Professor Botz-Bornstein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He is the author of numerous philosophy books, including The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Dandyism and New World Modernity (2010), Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan (2009), and Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai (2007).