Marina Simakova is an intellectual historian and writer whose work explores the relationship between ideas and ideologies. Her research sits at the intersection of Marxist thought, cultural history, and political writing. As a writer and editor, she has contributed to a range of journals and media platforms from e-flux to Le Grand Continent. As an educator, she has […]
Harry Halpin is a computer scientist known for his work in cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies. He co-founded Nym Technologies, which is building a decentralized mixnet to combat mass surveillance. He also played a key role in standardizing the W3C Web Cryptography API across browsers. His research focuses on the philosophy of cryptography, the limits of […]
Arina Atik is a graduate of Moscow State University, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and a Master’s degree in Philosophy (with honors). She is a researcher affiliated with The New Centre for Research & Practice’s Critical Philosophy program. Since 2013, her work has focused on Moscow Conceptualism—particularly the Collective Actions group—examining intersections between […]
Vincent Lê is a philosopher, PhD graduate from Monash University, and former researcher in The Terraforming think tank at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design. As a tutor and lecturer, he has taught philosophy, art theory, and political theory at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Deakin University, and the Melbourne School of Continental […]
Maks Valenčič is a theorist, writer, and editor. His philosophical project, Psychotic Accelerationism, attempts to formalize accelerationist theory within the psychotic register, which he understands as an engine of acceleration. He is also a researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice, an editor of Šum: Journal for Contemporary Art and Theory-Fiction, and the […]
Jason W. Moore is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, and Coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015), and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017, with Raj Patel). Many of his essays, interviews, and lectures can be found on his website, jasonwmoore.com.
Eva Husson (born 1977) is a French film director and screenwriter. She began her career as an actress before directing short films and music videos. In 2015, she directed her first feature film Bang Gang, a modern love story, which competed at the Toronto International Film Festival. She then directed the Palme d’Or-nominated film Girls […]
Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021), The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017), and Baudelaire’s Shadow: On Poetic Determination (forthcoming from Fordham, 2026). His translation of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil was published […]
Professor of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University (ECNU/华东师范大学); Executive Director of the International Center for Advanced Political Studies (ECNU); Founder and Director of the International Graduate Program in Politics (ECNU); Founder and Director of the Center for Ecological Civilization (ECNU); Vice Dean for the Institute of Singularity Politics (奇点政治研究院副院长); Associate Editor, […]
Bruno Belém is a psychoanalyst, a postgraduate student in philosophy at the University of São Paulo, and a certificate student at The New Centre for Research & Practice. His current research focuses on the self-organization of complex and multiscalar systems, the obsolescence and spectacularization of politics, and language theory. He also develops an original project […]
Matthew Donovan brings over a decade of experience navigating the precarious terrain of paraacademic institutions and digital strategy, bridging the worlds of cultural criticism, scholarship, creative agencies, social research, and public intellectual work. His projects have ranged from creating activist oriented data tools that monitor legislation, Grammy-qualifying documentaries that critique systemic policing issues to running […]
Dr Adam C. Jones is a writer and philosopher from East London, a specialist in Hegelianism and Max Stirner, he is co-host of the podcast Acid Horizon as well as co-author of Anti-Oculus and author of The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy.
Matt Hare is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, working on a PhD entitled “The Effects of Concatenation: Jean Cavaillès and Mathematical Philosophy”. His research focuses on the epistemology and history of modern mathematics (especially in France), the historiography of philosophy, and the tradition of rationalist philosophy (both […]
Rainer J. Hanshe was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in New York. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle, and the founder of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. Hanshe is the author of *The Acolytes,* which world-renowned Kafka scholar Walter H. Sokel called “a powerful novel that reverberates in the inner spaces […]
Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of philosophy, poetics, media, and design. He is best known as the author of a biography of Georges Bataille, published in Reaktion Books’ series Critical Lives, and as the editor and translator of seven volumes of Bataille’s writings, including Inner Experience, Guilty, On […]
Rainer J. Hanshe was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in New York. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle, and the founder of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. Hanshe is the author of “The Acolytes,” which world-renowned Kafka scholar Walter H. Sokel called “a powerful novel that reverberates in the inner spaces […]
Christopher Daniel is the founder of Polysemic, a systemic design and experience architecture practice; and a member of Exploded View, a collective that considers the human condition in broader perspective. With a background in the architecture of gathering and performance, Christopher has more than 15 years of experience in the creation and evolution of places […]
Pablo Larios is an author and art critic based in Berlin. He has contributed feature articles, columns, and exhibition reviews to magazines such as Artforum, Art Papers, frieze (where he served as senior editor), Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Spike Art Quarterly, Texte zur Kunst, and 032c. Alongside his practice as an art critic and nonfiction writer, he […]
Richard Hames is a political theorist and journalist. He is the co-author of Post-Internet Far Right (Dog Section, 2021) and The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right (Polity Press, 2022) and an editor of Crude Futures (New Models, 2023). He is a host of Novara FM and its Series Producer. Before all […]
Carl Olsson is a writer and theorist working with histories and philosophies of science and spatial theory. His work touches on the human self-image, different concepts of freedom in nature, and transcendental philosophy. Carl recently completed a PhD in human geography at Newcastle University. He contributed to the second cycle of The Terraforming at Strelka […]
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