Category Archives: People

Joevenn Neo is a philosopher who works on the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and non-standard philosophy.

Valentin Golev is a programmer and theorist of technology. He is currently completing his Certificate at the New Centre for Research & Practice. He investigates the representation of science in art, particularly the post-Soviet computer games and video works.

Allen Feldman, a pioneer in the ethnography of violence, the body and the senses, is the author of Archives of the Insensible: of War, Photopolitics and Dead Memory (University of Chicago, 2015) and Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (1991). Feldman is a cultural anthropologist who has […]

Rachael Rakes is a curator, arts writer, editor, film programmer, and educator. She is currently Curator for Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Programmer at Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center—where she co-curates the annual experimental nonfiction festival Art of the Real. […]

Andrei Chitu studied philosophy, history and theology at the University of Tübingen and University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Chitu researches alienation in online cultures as well as the subject of political education for the youth. He is preparing his PhD thesis on a possible link between Hegel’s Logic and a new conception of minimalism in […]

Roya Rastegar, Ph.D., is a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and cultural strategist whose work examines visual culture and political power. She serves as Head of Narrative Research at Global Freedoms, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that mobilizes culture to amplify freedom movements, scale human rights campaigns, and counter state-sanctioned extremism in Iran and worldwide. Rastegar holds a […]

Colin Drumm is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently writing a dissertation on the topic of monetary history and political philosophy, with a focus on Mediterranean antiquity and early modern England.

Antoine Bousquet is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck, University of London. His work lies at the intersection of war and political violence, the history and philosophy of science and technology, and social and political theory in the information age. He is the author of The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to […]

Brunella Antomarini, PhD in Aesthetics, (Gregoriana University in Rome), teaches Aesthetics and Contemporary philosophy at John Cabot University, Rome. She has a pluri-disciplinary formation in contemporary epistemology, aesthetics, semiotics, theory of poetry, anthropology, post- humanism. Her current research concerns the analysis of the common functions of the organic body and the retroactive machine, through an […]

Charles Stankievech diverse body of work, which includes installations, curatorial projects and performance lectures, has been shown internationally at institutions including the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Canadian Centre for Architecture, […]

João Enxuto works on projects about the role new technologies play in reshaping work, institutions, and economies connected to Contemporary Art. He has collaborated with Erica Love since 2009. Together they were fellows at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program for 2012-2013. They have given talks, written essays, and exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Whitney […]

Christine Bjerke is an architect, writer and design tutor based in Copenhagen. She is the co-founder of the international think-tank In-Between Economies and she completed her MArch studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London. Her interests focus on the intersections of the built environment, economic development, technology culture, design, and architecture. She […]

David B. Auerbach is the author of Bitwise: A Life in Code (Pantheon, 2018). He is a writer, technologist, and software engineer who has worked Google and Microsoft after graduating from Yale University. In addition to scholarship on James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and artificial intelligence, his writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, MIT Technology Review, The Nation, , […]

Graduated with an Interdisciplinary Urban Geography Degree from University of Toronto. Has been collaborating artistically with Christian Giroux since 2002. Recently they completed Three Points Where Two Lines Meet a public artwork for the City of Toronto and a film that is a sculpture for titled Camera Path / Film Path with undertitles. cgdy.com 

Arthur Röing Baer is the director of Trust, a project space in Berlin for utopian conspiracy and platform design. Between 2017 and 2019, he worked as the Head of Growth at FOAM, developing blockchain protocols for crowdsourced maps and decentralized location services. Arthur took part in the post graduate program The New Normal at the Strelka Institute and […]

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work entangles narratives of power, cause and functionalism from philosophical theory, literature and real political events, exploring how the myths that seem necessary for an account of human agency are lived with, but can also be supplanted by a realist politics. Through entangling narratives of power and […]

Klaus Speidel is an academic philosopher, art critic and curator, who studied philosophy and art history in Munich (LMU) and Paris (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris X Nanterre, Sorbonne). Beyond numerous academic publications on topics related to art, narrative, depiction, style, drawing and digital, Klaus writes on contemporary art and culture for international magazines like Spike, artpress, Art Newspaper, Parnass and Frankfurter […]

Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Another recent book, Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), considers building removal or how to put the development machine into reverse. Other books include: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture […]

Sophie Lewis is a theorist, critic and translator living in Philadelphia. She publishes her work—on topics ranging from dating to Donna Haraway—on both scholarly and non-academic platforms, including Boston Review, Viewpoint, Signs, Science as Culture, Jacobin, the New Inquiry, Mute, and Salvage Quarterly.

Michelle Esther O’Brien is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University. She is currently conducting dissertation research on LGBTQ social movements in New York City. Michelle also works as a Community Oral History Coordinator at the New York Public Library, where she helps lead the New York City Trans Oral History Project.