Peter van der Veer is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen. He taught Anthropology at the Free University in Amsterdam, at Utrecht University and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he was appointed as Professor of Comparative Religion and Founding Director of the Research…

Prof. Peter-Paul Verbeek is professor of philosophy of technology and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Twente. He is president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and a member of the Dutch Council for the Humanities. Verbeek’s research focuses on the social and cultural roles of technology and the ethical and anthropological aspects of human-technology relations. Among…

Françoise Vergés is currently Consulting Professor at the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and president of the Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage (France). Françoise Vergès has written on vernacular practices of memories, on slavery and the economy of predation, the ambiguities of French abolitionism, French republican colonialism, colonial and…

Timotheus Vermeulen is an assistant professor in cultural studies and theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he also directs the Centre for New Aesthetics. He is also one of the founding editors of the academic arts and culture webzine Notes on Metamodernism and contributing editor to Feedback Blog, a new critical theory…

Bald de Vries graduated from Leiden University and finished his PhD in Dublin in 1996. Since 2001 he is lecturer in the Department of Legal Theory at the School of Law of Utrecht University. He is also a fellow of the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University. In the Working Group on (Reflexive) Modernisation &…