Zeigam Azizov
is a philosopher and artist, born in Azerbaijan and currently living in London. His main interests include questions of time, exteriorization, and fuzzy objects and their relation to the current understanding of technics and images. His recent book The Time of the Image: A Philosophical Exploration of the Image in the Work of Bernard Stiegler was published in 2020 by Herbert von Halem Verlag in Cologne. These ideas are developed further in the forthcoming book Realism [Without] the Real: Imitation of Thought. This philosophical work is also reflected in his artworks, consisting of multimedia installations and paintings.
Majero Bouman
is an independent researcher and certified movement teacher with Open Floor International. Her current areas of research include embodiment of the psyche, somatics, and the neuroscience of trauma and capacity. Majero gives talks and workshops in Open Floor Movement Practice, embodiment and emotional intelligence in Canada and the US. Since the covid-19 pandemic, she has been teaching courses in movement and meaning to ongoing groups online as well as in person, and working with priority populations in Ontario’s near-North.
Ivan Callus
is Professor of English at the University of Malta. He has published widely in the areas of posthumanism, literary theory, comparative literature, and contemporary fiction. Most recently, he co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (2 vols, 2022, Palgrave). He is the founding co-editor of CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary (Edinburgh University Press) and of the Genealogy of the Posthuman (criticalposthumanism.net).
Francesca Ferrando
is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University’s School of Liberal Studies. A leading voice in the field of posthuman studies and co-founder of the NY Posthuman Research Group, she has been the recipient of numerous honors and recognitions, including the Sainati Prize with the Acknowledgement of the President of Italy. She is the author of Philosophical Posthumanism (Bloomsbury, 2019) and The Art of Being Posthuman: Who Are We in the 21st Century? (Polity Press, 2023).
is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at ku Leuven, where she worked in 2022 as an associate member of the erc Project “Homo Mimeticus.” A Nietzsche scholar currently working on mimesis and nihilism, she has additional research and teaching expertise in ethics and feminist philosophy. She is a member of multiple Nietzsche societies, including the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (United Kingdom), the HyperNietzsche International Research Group, and the Spanish Society for Nietzsche Studies. She is also co-editor with Nidesh Lawtoo of the forthcoming volume Homo Mimeticus ii: Re-Turns to Mimesis (Leuven University Press).
N. Katherine Hayles
is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University. She teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her most recent book, Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational, was published by the Columbia University Press (Spring 2021). Among her dozen books which provide landmark foundations for posthuman studies are Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (The University of Chicago Press, 2017), How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technologies (The University of Chicago Press, 2012), Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (Notre Dame Press, 2008), My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (The University of Chicago Press, 2005), and How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (The University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998–99, and Writing Machines, which won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Stefan Herbrechter
is a Privatdozent (English and Cultural Theory) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has published widely on English and comparative literature, cultural theory, and media studies. He is the author of Posthumanism—A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Before Humanity (Brill, 2021); editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (Springer, 2022); director of the Critical Posthumanism Network (
is an assistant professor at the Seminar for Philosophy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2023. His main topics are practical philosophy and ethics of German idealism and post-idealism as well as ethics of nature and technology in the context of the Anthropocene discourse. He is the author of Wollen und Lassen: Zur Ausdifferenzierung, Kritik und Rezeption des Willensparadigmas in der Philosophie Schellings (2019). He is also co-editor of Das Böse im Anthropozän? (special issue of Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2021) with Lore Hühn; and of Nature in the Anthropocene (special issue of The Anthropocene Review, 2022) with Lore Hühn and Oliver Müller.
Peggy Karpouzou
is Associate Professor of Theory of Literature at the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the author of La poétique de l’ironie dans la nouvelle du xixe siècle (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2003) and co-edited Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice (Peter Lang, 2023). Her research interests focus on literary theories, posthumanism, and ecocriticism in Greek, French, and Anglophone literature of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She is currently a member of the Education Team at nasa’s vine-Glenn Research Center. She is also series editor of the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” (Rowman & Littlefield) and “Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory.”
Kevin LaGrandeur
is Director of Research at the Global ai Ethics Institute, Professor Emeritus at the New York Institute for Technology, a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, co-founder of the NY Posthuman Research Group, and Advisory Board Member of the Lifeboat Foundation. He specializes in technology and culture, ethics, and education and is a member of the founding editorial boards of two journals: ai and Ethics, and the Journal of Posthumanism. He is on the founding editorial board of the book series Critical Posthuman and Citizenship Studies (Rowman and Littlefield). He is also the author of Artificial Slaves (Routledge, 2013), which won a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize, and co-editor with sociologist James Hughes of Surviving the Machine Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Nidesh Lawtoo
is a philosopher and cultural critic, Professor of Modern and Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University, as well as Principal
María del Carmen Molina Barea
is a contracted lecturer at the University of Córdoba, Spain. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics, and a ma in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College. Her research interests include issues related to avant-garde aesthetics, postmodern ontology, gender theory, film philosophy, and visual cultures. She has published studies in academic journals such as Contemporary Aesthetics, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, cinej, Anales del Instituto Investigaciones Estéticas, Aisthesis, Isegoría, and Archivo Español de Arte. She is the author of the books Arte y Deseo: El Surrealismo desde la Filosofía de Deleuze y Guattari (UCOPress, 2017) and Jardín y Rizoma: El Giardino Renacentista de Ficino a Deleuze (Fórcola, 2022).
Patricia Pisters
is Professor of Film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003); The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (Stanford University Press, 2012); and New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). She is the editor of Deleuze and Guattari and the Psychedelic Revival (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). See
Diego Scalco
holds a PhD in Philosophy, and is a researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and lecturer at the École des Arts of the Sorbonne. His recent articles include “Apophatisme et non-dualité dans le Vedānta et chez Ad Reinhardt,” Cahiers erta, no. 33 (2023); “La tragédie comme dés/enrégimentation de la violence,” Marges, no. 34 (2022); “La plasticité de l’humain et de
Jean-Marie Schaeffer
is a philosopher of aesthetic reception, researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is a specialist in philosophical aesthetics and art theory. The author of Why Fiction? (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) and Art of the Modern Age (Princeton University Press, 2000), his current work focuses on the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of the aesthetic relationship, on the interaction between “art” and “aesthetics,” and on the links between fictional competence conceived as a psychological capacity and the arts of fiction. Since 2006, he has been Director of the Centre for Research on Arts and Language.
Andreea Stoicescu
is a member of the teaching staff at the National University of Music of Bucharest and exams assistant at the British Council, Bucharest. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest; her interdisciplinary thesis was titled “Emotion and Aesthetic Judgment in the Musical Experience” (2022). Her main areas of specialization are aesthetics, (process) metaphysics, philosophy of culture, and critical theory. She has published studies in several journals, including Musicology Today, Diakrisis, and Saeculum and in university collective volumes. In 2021, she obtained an Erasmus+ grant to participate in the civis Short-Term Mobility Summer School Modernisms in Transit: Dialogues and Crossings (Aix-en-Provence, France, August 23–27, 2021).
Nikoleta Zampaki
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Previously, she was an instructor at Utah University. Her disciplines are environmental humanities, posthumanities, digital humanities, and comparative literature. She is editor of several international journals, and is a member of the Education Team at nasa’s vine-Glenn Research Center. She is a multilingual scholar, working in English, French, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Hungarian, Maori, and Turkish. She is also co-editor with Professor Peggy Karpouzou of the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” (Rowman & Littlefield).