Brian Holmes is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in 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 and is the author of the book Hieroglyphs of the Future.^[4] He was the English editor of publications for 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, the art magazines Springerin^[5] (Austria) and 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 under the title Continental Drift,^[7] working on the issues of geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog^[8] under the same name, with the subtitle "the other side of neoliberal globalization".