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Georgiana Cojocaru

Georgiana Cojocaru is a writer, researcher, and editor based in Amsterdam and originally from Romania. She is currently doing research with the Institute of Network Cultures on topics such as artificial intelligence and literature, necro-aesthetics, emerging subjectivities in developing Worlds, Cold War literature, and the future of networked solidarities. She studies at the Transdisciplinary Program […]

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Jason Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His scholarly focus is upon tracking currents of experimental thought between the Middle East and the West, with particular attention to exploring the concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, madness, futurism, disappearance, and apocalyptic aesthetics. He has published several books to date, including The […]

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Lika Kareva

Lika Kareva is a philosopher and a lecturer from Moscow. She has graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Lika’s theoretical interests include History of Philosophy and Aesthetics — especially the interpretations of the Kantian concept of Aesthetic Judgment. Apart from that, she runs a blog called ‘Minecraft philosophy’ dedicated to exploring contemporary rationalism.

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Ben Burgis

Ben Burgis (born 1980)[1] is an American socialist political commentator, author and adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University. He graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in 2003, obtained an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University in 2005 and a Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2011. He has written articles for Jacobin, […]

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Mirian Kussumi

Mirian Kussumi holds a BA and an MA in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a PhD in Philosophy from PUC-Rio. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research in the UFRJ Department of Philosophy, within the research line “Gender, race, and coloniality.” She is an editor of the latin american Crise […]

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Matt McManus

Matt McManus is an Assistant Professor at Spelman College and the author of The Political Right and Equality and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism amongst other books.

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Édgar A. Valenzuela Nuncio

Édgar is a PhD candidate in Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). His work is situated at the intersection of foundational logic and set theory, investigating the formal structures of abstract model theory. His current research extends these foundational inquiries into algebra, utilizing set-theoretic and logical tools to tackle problems within module theory.

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Zeyad el Nabolsy

Zeyad el Nabolsy earned his B. Eng (Chemical Engineering) and M.A. (Philosophy) from McMaster University, and a PhD in Africana Studies (with a specialization in African philosophy) from Cornell University. He specializes in the history of Africana philosophy with a focus on modern African philosophy. He has previously published on Amílcar Cabral’s philosophy of culture, […]

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Cassandra Spiral

Cassandra Spiral is a designer and technologist from California. She’s the founder and director of Moon, a laboratory for experimental design and emergent technics. She received her BA from the Evergreen State College in 2015, an MFA in Digital Language Arts from Brown University in 2020, and an MRes. in Design from the Royal College […]

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Morgane Billuart

Morgane Billuart (1997) is a writer and visual artist with a background from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Cooper Union. She is an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures and hosts the GirlEmployee podcast with Carmen Lael Hines. Her work explores technological development, digital practices, and internet culture. In 2024, she published Cycles, […]

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Emily Rose Apter & Charles de Agustin

Charles de Agustin is an artist based in New York primarily making films through writing and speaking. Current research focuses on administration and necrophilanthropy. Solo and group presentations. Some grants, awards. Jobs in classrooms, offices, galleries. Organizing otherwise. Tired of artist bios. (October 2025) Emily Rose Apter is a Brooklyn-based programmer, filmmaker, and organizer whose […]

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Farshid Kazemi

Farshid Kazemi is an Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh. He is a cultural, media and film theorist specializing in an interdisciplinary approach to Film and Media Studies, Iranian Studies, and […]

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Pavel Arsenev

Pavel Arsenev is an artist and theorist. His joint artistic and research interests include the history of poetological and linguistic ideas, media ecologies and material cultures of the avant-garde, the technical history of literature and empirical science, and contemporary political poetry & (post)socialist independent publishing and counter-archives. He is now part of artistic research group […]

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Joseph C. Russo

Joey Russo is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores conspiracy, security, and the affective life of suspicion. He is the author of Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke University Press, 2023), which received the Ruth Benedict Prize Honorable Mention and the Edie Turner Prize for First Book in […]

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Angelos Evangelidis

Angelos Evangelidis is a writer and researcher working at the intersections of literature and philosophy. They hold a PhD in Literary, Musical, and Visual Thought from the European Graduate School, where they graduated summa cum laude with Crushed Narrative: The Box, a hybrid theoretical–creative work. Centered on the case of Robert Maudsley, held in solitary […]

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Borna Radnik

Borna Radnik has a PhD in Philosophy from the Centre of Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. He has published articles in Radical Philosophy, Crisis & Critique, Continental Thought and Theory, and contributed chapters to Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism (2020) edited by Russell Sbrigilia and Slavoj Žižek, and […]

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Roberto Alonso Trillo

Roberto Alonso Trillo’s research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructure and performance. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production. His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical […]

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Marek Poliks

Marek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted). Marek’s […]

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Domenic Hutchins

Domenic Hutchins received a BA from Bard College and an MA in Theory and Criticism from Western University. His criticism has been published or is forthcoming in Bellona, Caesura, and Manhattan Art Journal. He is also a musician and concert organizer and has worked in the antiquarian book trade for the past decade.

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Rasmus Haukedal

Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal is a philosopher who earned his PhD from Durham University in 2023 with a dissertation on the extended evolutionary synthesis and its philosophical implications. During his PhD studies, he was a research fellow for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme Real Smart Cities and co-convened the reading group at the Centre for Culture and […]

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