Jussi Parikka works at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is Docent in Digital Culture Theory at University of Turku and author or editor of several books, including Digital Contagions (2007), Insect Media (2010), What is Media Archaeology (2012) and most recently A Geology of Media (2015).

is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. His research interests lie in the interactions between literary and visual culture, and technology, over the last two hundred years, and his publications include Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images (1997); Airspaces (Reaktion, 2001); and Aircraft (Reaktion, 2003).

Matteo Pasquinelli (MA, Bologna; PhD, London) is a philosopher and visiting Assistant Professor in Media Studies at Pratt Institute, New York. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the anthologies Gli algoritmi del capitale (2014) and Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and its Traumas (forthcoming 2015) among…

Luisa Passerini is an oral historian, writer, and professor of history. She began her career as a researcher in Tanzania and Zambia. Returning to Italy, she became involved in the movements of the late 1960s and 1970s, particularly the feminist movement, about which she has written a memoir, Autobiography of a Generation. She has taught…

Patricia Tuitt, BA, LLM (London) joined Birkbeck as a Lecturer in Law in 1998 and is now Professor of Law and Executive Dean of the Law School. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at the University of East London. She went on to take a leading role in the management of the department, rising…