Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

• political science

Christian Fuchs

Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media Studies

McKenzie Wark

Australian media theorist and writer, currently lives and works in New York. McKenzie Wark grew up and studied in Australia, at Macquarie University, the University of Technology, Sydney and at the Murdoch University. In 2000, he emigrated to the US.

Beka Economopoulos

Member of Not An Alternative, a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history.

www.notanalternative.net

Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist, artist, who teaches at the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• biotechnology,
• biowarfare

Jack Dean

Author and co-editor of the Occupied Times of London.

• activism,
• theory,
• occupy

Andreas Broeckmann

Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin and works as the curator of the Leuphana Arts Program in Lüneburg.

• art,
• theory,
• media theory,
• deep europe

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

• migration,
• no border,
• dictionary of war,
• borders

Alex Galloway

Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RGS and creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects.

Clemens Apprich

Theorist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Moving Image Lab as well as coordinator and curator at the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.

• tactical media,
• media theory,
• media criticism

 Not An Alternative

Not An Alternative is a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. The organization operates a multi-purpose venue named The Change You Want to See Gallery and Convergence Stage, where free and low-cost lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations occurs. The space also consists of a production workshop, filming studio and video editing suite. During the day it is a collaborative office space (aka coworking) for like minded cultural producers.

• art,
• activism

Gene Ray

Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin, is a member of the Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC).

• art,
• tactical media

Ned Rossiter

Ned Rossiter is is a media theorist who researches on the political dimensions of labour and life in informational economies. He is currently investigating global logistics industries and the intersections between labour regimes, IT infrastructures, electronic waste industries and questions of informational sovereignty.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• post-governmental organisation,
• info-activism

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos is managing editor of Re-public.

Amy Sara Carroll

Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995).

• art,
• migration,
• borders