Will Scarlett is a writer and researcher interested in phenomena of presence between the sensory, virtual, imaginary, and ecological. His current project, Being There and Not There, explores how humans are cultivating presence in a highly mediated world, often in ways that reconfigure social boundaries around the real. His writings have appeared in The Senses and Society, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Future Studies, and Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. He has led seminars at the New School and the New Centre, and has presented at the EVENT Lab at the University of Barcelona, the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research.