Category Archives: People

Stefan Heidenreich

Stefan Heidenreich is a theoretician, writing about media, economy and arts. His recent books are Geld. Für eine non-monetäre Ökonomie (Money. For a Non-Money Economy , 2017), an outline of an utopian economy based on algorithmic distribution, and Geburtstag. Wie es kommt, dass wir uns selbst feiern (Birthday. How we came to celebrate ourselves, 2018), […]

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Davor Löffler

Davor Löffler earned his PhD in Sociology from Free University of Berlin with an interdisciplinary thesis on the shift of social structures, cognition and temporality in the Technological Civilization. He worked as lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy at the BTK University of Art and Design, Berlin, and collaborated in various interdisciplinary working groups such as […]

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Tiziana Terranova

Tiziana Terranova is associate professor of Cultural Studies and New Media in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples, ‘L’Orientale’. She is the author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Pluto Press, 2004) and numerous essays about digital media in journals such as Theory Culture and Society, Culture Machine, New […]

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Elie Ayache

Elie Ayache was born in Lebanon in 1966. Trained as an engineer at l’École Polytechnique of Paris, he pursued a career of option market-maker on the floor of MATIF (1987-1990) and LIFFE (1990-1995). He then turned to the philosophy of probability (DEA at la Sorbonne) and to the technology of derivative pricing, and co-founded ITO […]

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Paul Feigelfeld

Paul Feigelfeld is currently the Data & Research Architect of TBA21-Academy, the exploratory arm of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. He studied Cultural Studies and Computer Science in Berlin and worked with Friedrich Kittler and Wolfgang Ernst at the Institute for Aesthetics and History of Media as well as the Chair for Media Theory. From 2013-2016 he […]

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Ray Brassier

Ray Brassier obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2001. From 2002 to 2008 he was a Research Fellow at Middlesex University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. In 2008, he joined the philosophy department at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and […]

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Inigo Wilkins

Inigo Wilkins took his masters in Sonic Culture at the University of East London, and completed his PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths in 2016. The title of his thesis was ‘Irreversible Noise: The Rationalization of Randomness and the Fetishization of Indeterminacy’, which he is now transforming into a book for a forthcoming publication by […]

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R. Kevin Hill

R. Kevin Hill is a professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought (Oxford, 2003) and Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2007). He is the editor/co-translator of the posthumous collection of Nietzsche’s notes known as The Will to Power (Penguin, 2017), as well as the editor/translator of Nietzsche’s Joyous Science (Penguin, […]

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Benjamin H. Bratton

Benjamin Bratton is a sociologist, architectural and design theorist, as well as a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Stack (MIT Press, 2016) and Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (Sternberg Press, 2016).

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Defne Ayas

Defne Ayas is an internationally renowned curator of contemporary art and the former director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly) in Rotterdam.

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Meredith Finkelstein

Meredith Finkelstein is  is a New York based software developer and tech entrepreneur.

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S. Charusheela

S. Charusheela is the Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell, where her research and teaching interests focus on gender, political economy, globalization and development. Charu is the Editor of Rethinking Marxism, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.).

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Anne-Françoise Schmid

Anne-Françoise Schmid, philosopher and epistemologist among scientists and artists. Specialist of philosophy of mathematics, on Poincaré as initiator of generic space in sciences (1997, 2001), editor of Russell and Couturat (Paris, Kimé, 2001, 2 vol., 735 pages). She has clarified the general assumptions of epistemology in a manner to avoid the exclusion of contemporary methods […]

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Derek Hales

Derek Hales is Research Fellow in Transdisciplinary Practice with the New Centre for Research & Practice and an independent researcher based in Manchester, UK. Derek’s research with The New Centre extends his existing work on speculative hardware and is concerned with design-fictional objects of the new weird and with theory-fictional objects of hyperstition. His essay […]

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Martin Rosenberg

Martin received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990, where he wrote his dissertation on the cultural work of the scientific concept of “emergence” in social philosophy and across the arts, beginning with Henri Poincaré, Henri Bergson, and Marcel Duchamp, and ending with Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Ilya Prigogine, Francisco Varela and Thomas Pynchon.  He […]

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Victoria Ivanova

Victoria Ivanova is a curator. She is currently Assistant Curator for Public Programmes at Tate, London. Having previously worked in the human rights field, in 2010, she co-founded a multidisciplinary cultural platform in Donetsk, Ukraine, which critically explored the intersection between activism, education and artistic production. Ivanova is also one of the founding members of […]

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Fernando Zalamea

Fernando Zalamea (Bogotá, 1959) is Professor of Mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Chancellor of Research (1998-2000) of the Universidad Nacional – Sede Bogotá. After his Ph.D. in category theory and recursion theory (University of Massachusetts, 1990, under Ernest Manes), Zalamea has been working in alternative logics, Peirce and Lautman studies, and the philosophy of […]

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