Notes on Contributors
Jason Dawsey is a historian in The National WWII Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, where he researches prisoners of war, anti-Nazi resistance movements, and the Holocaust. Dawsey is the author of several articles and book chapters on the philosophical and political thought of the German-Jewish technology critic and anti-nuclear militant, Günther Anders, and co-edited (with Günter Bischof and Bernhard Fetz) The Life and Work of Günther Anders: Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters (Studien Verlag, 2015). As part of his long interest in the history of socialism, he is currently working on a monograph about American Trotskyists during World War II.
Nick Dyer-Witheford is a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is, with Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff, author of Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto Press 2019) and, with Allessandra Mularoni, of Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crises (Verso Books, forthcoming 2025).
Johannes Fehrle is a member of the Biomaterialities Research Group at the Humboldt University of Berlin working on questions of political economy and ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature and has published on a wide range of topics from literary, film, and media studies to political economy and ecology.
Benjamin Ferschli is a doctoral research at the University of Oxford, researching work, employment, and technological change.
Christina Gratorp is a PhD candidate in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at Lund University prior to which she worked two decades as an embedded systems engineer.
Atle Mikkola Kjøsen is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His current research lies at the intersections between Marxist political economy, media theory, retailing, and consumption, the latter with a focus on artificial intelligence and smart technology.
Marlon Lieber is an assistant professor of American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the author of Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels (transcript, 2023) and the co-editor (with Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich) of a special issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies on “Marxism and the United States.”
Larry Liu is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University. His research interests are in the future of work, automation and technological change at the workplace. He has also published on political activism, universal basic income, and global political economy. His blogs are available at
Jeff Noonan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. He is the author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference (2003), Democratic Society and Human Needs (2006), Materialist Ethics and Life-Value (2012), Embodiment and the Meaning of Life (2018), The Troubles with Democracy (2019), and Embodied Humanism (2022) along with dozens of peer reviewed articles and book chapters. He has written for alternative and progressive websites in Canada and abroad and maintains an active blog at
Robert Ovetz is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill 2018 and Haymarket 2019), We the Elite: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few (Pluto 2022), and a forthcoming book on NGO s and capitalism (Haymarket 2024). He is the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategy, Tactics, Objectives (Pluto, 2020), co-editor with Kari Lydersen and Kevin Van Meter of Real World Labor, Vol. 4 (Dollars & Sense 2024), and an Associate Editor of and contributor to The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, edited by Immanuel Ness (Routledge 2022). Robert is a labor writer for Dollars & Sense and The Chief magazine.
J. Jesse Ramírez is a teacher and independent scholar. He is the author of three works of Marxist cultural studies: Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century (2022), Rules of the Father in The Last of Us: Masculinity among the Ruins of Neoliberalism (2022), and Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots (2020). Jesse has also coedited the collection Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America (2021).
Steffen Reitz is an independent researcher based in Frankfurt am Main. He has an M.A. in American studies, Latin American studies and Political Science and a teacher’s degree. He’s interested in media and technology studies, psychoanalysis and political economy. His research usually focuses on issues where these fields meet.
Jens Schröter is Professor and chair of media studies at the University of Bonn and Co-Director of the VW-Main Grant “How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science?” His recent publications include Medien und Ökonomie (Springer 2019), (with Christoph Ernst) Media Futures: Theory and Aesthetics (Palgrave 2021), and (with Andreas Sudmann et al., eds.) Beyond Quantity: Research with Subsymbolic AI (Transcript 2023). Visit
Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles, and is the author of Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Reaktion 2020). He frequently writes for the “Field Notes” section of the Brooklyn Rail, and is currently writing about the political economy of demographic decline.
James Steinhoff is Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on automation and the political economy of AI and data. He is the author of Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave 2021) and co-author of Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto 2019).
Dr. Amy Wendling is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at Creighton University, a Jesuit University in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. She is the author of two books: Karl Marx on technology and alienation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009 and in German with Dietz Verlag 2022) and The ruling ideas: bourgeois political concepts (Lexington 2012). She has written many articles about the implications of the capitalist social form on human life, most recently for the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, about how loneliness is bad for human health.