Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara. Intellectual and research interests mainly fall within the areas of politics and culture. More specifically, she is concerned with studying the political as a site of cultural discourse, cultural identity, and cultural production. She is the author of Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy and Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie.