Author Biographies
Blair Attard-Frost is a researcher, educator and creative working on various projects related to the governance of artificial intelligence. Her research applies trans and feminist theory to address challenges of power, participation and justice in AI governance. Her creative work combines experimental sci-fi, glitch art and surrealism to expose frictions between gender, technology and regulation. She recently received her PhD in Information Studies from the University of Toronto.
Casper Bruun Jensen is specially appointed Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things (Sense 2010) and Monitoring Movements in Development Aid (with Brit Ross Winthereik) (2013 MIT), and the editor of Infrastructures and Social Complexity with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (Routledge 2016) and Southern Anthropocenes (Routledge 2025). His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies.
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal holds the professorship in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Arts, Media, Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he also directs the DHLab. He was previously the Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-author (with Théo Lepage-Richer and Lucy Suchman) of Neural Networks (University of Minnesota and Meson Press 2024), and his award-winning writing – situated between critical media theory, literary studies, political economy, and Science and Technology Studies – can be found in Critical Inquiry, Configurations, American Literature, JCMS, and Design Issues.
Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast (thedatafix.net) and editor of Heliotrope (heliotropejournal.net). She is Associate Professor in Film & Media at Queen’s University (Canada). Her research focuses on environmental media and data infrastructure in the contexts of planetary catastrophes and collective anxieties about the future. You can follow her on Bluesky at @melhogan.bsky.social
Sun-ha Hong examines forms of uncertainty, doubt and (dis)belief around surveillance, smart machines & AI. He is Associate Professor in Communication, and in Data Science and Sociology, at UNC-Chapel Hill, and External Faculty Fellow at Stanford Humanities Centre (2024–2025). Sun-ha once wrote Technologies of Speculation (2020), and will one day write Predictions Without Futures.
Cymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Founding Co-Director of the Science and Technology Studies Program at Rice University. Her books include Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene; Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon; Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. She is the recipient of The Berlin Prize for transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities and public policy and, most recently, a Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. Cymene’s current research focuses on elemental conditions, social transformation and speculative imaginaries, and the ethics and art of communicating climate disruption.
Tung-Hui Hu is a poet and a media theorist. He is the author of five books, most recently Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (MIT Press 2022), A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press 2003). He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Jacqueline Jenkins is Professor of English at University of Calgary (Canada). Her research projects typically address medieval manuscripts and their utility within the communities that produced them, and her research resides in the interdisciplinary fields of performance studies, gender studies and cultural, social and religious histories. Her new work engages affect theory and tourism and curation studies, and the complex relationships between religion/ conservatism, extractive industries and AI/automation in some of Canada’s rural towns.
Baldeep Kaur is a doctoral candidate in the DFG RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam, and teaches at the University of Rostock. They study how colonial power is consolidated during large-scale technological transitions and switches between resource regimes. Alongside their thesis, a longer-term project is to realise velocities of academic work that nourish slow work and protect slow workers. They are affiliated with the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and are a member of a DFG Network on discard studies called Waste in Motion.
Stefan Laser is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His work is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, economic sociology and digital methods, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary engagements in waste, energy and valuation studies. Widely published, Laser explores the intricate dynamics of economic practices and material flows to illuminate how actors shape and are shaped by planetary entanglements. His research is driven by a commitment to future-oriented thinking, offering relational approaches that seek to navigate and reimagine the complexities of living well on a damaged planet.
Sebastián Lehuedé is a Lecturer in Ethics, AI and Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. His research looks at the governance of digital technologies from a global social justice perspective. Sebastián’s book manuscript examines the connection between Artificial Intelligence and environmental justice in Latin America. For this, he has engaged with urban, rural and Indigenous communities affected by the environmental impacts of AI. Sebastián’s approach combines ethnographic methods, political ecology and decolonial thought. He has also contributed to conceptual development on data friction and digital sovereignty.
Esben Lorentzen is Professor of Computational Structural Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he heads the Section for Protein Science. His research bridges structure determination and AI-based prediction methods to uncover fundamental mechanisms of cellular life, particularly focusing on the cilium organelle and intracellular transport. He pioneered the structural characterisation of intraflagellar transport (IFT) complexes, revealing how protein trafficking drives cilium formation. Lorentzen has published in Science, Cell and The EMBO Journal on the regulation and organisation of macromolecules governing the inner life of cells.
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher with the Fixing Futures research training group at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) programme. His book manuscript, Cloud Ecologies, is an ethnographic study of data centres and their environmental politics in New England, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Iceland and Singapore. Committed to public scholarship, Steven’s research is featured in a range of venues for general audiences in platforms that include Wired, Aeon, NPR, BBC News, and more. Under the byline E. G. Condé, he writes Indigenous futurism and is the author of Sordidez, which received the Latino International Book Award for Best LGTBQ+ Book. His current research project is an ethnography of data storage futures from DNA to digital ‘cuneiform’.
Naomi Okabe is a media artist, writer and creative researcher interested in science fiction and sociotechnical imaginaries of caring labour. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies (Film and Media, Queen’s University, Canada), where she is thinking about motherhood and technologies of care, environmental media and outer space futures. Naomi’s films have premiered at festivals such as Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and Kingston Canadian Film Festival. She writes speculative fiction and co-runs the record label and publisher, Séance Centre.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. His work centres around tech criticism, labour and financial reporting. In 2023, he joined Logic(s) as a columnist and finance editor. In 2024, he became a Senior Researcher at Security in Context, where he focuses on artificial intelligence. He is also the cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast on the political economy of technological innovation. His work has appeared in The Nation, Slate, Dissent, Logic(s), and Motherboard (VICE News). He has also worked as an organiser and researcher focused on how Silicon Valley’s model has restructured labour and social relations.
Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University, cross-appointed between Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment. Her research explores the cultural politics of climate change, with a particular emphasis on the social and technical means through which carbon is enumerated and mobilised within the tech sector, academia and the arts. She is also the director of the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, a network of scholars examining the social impacts of decarbonising academic work, and the Experimental Methods & Media Lab, a hub for critical making at Trent.
Estrid Sørensen is a Professor of Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She conducts research on the intersection of technology and knowledge production from a Science & Technology Studies perspective, and is the head of the RUSTlab, the Ruhr-University Science & Technology Studies Lab. Her current ethnographic research addresses data infrastructures, particularly data centres. She inquires into university data centres as mediators between knowledge and the planet, and how they contribute to making knowledge (in)visible as planetary.
Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media at the University of California-Berkeley, conducts research on global internet and media distribution, communications infrastructures ranging from data centres to undersea cables, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media, infrastructure and environments, including The Undersea Network (2015), Media Hot and Cold (2021), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015), Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016), Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021) and the ’Elements’ book series at Duke University Press.
Laura Watts is an author, consultant, ethnographer of green futures and Professor at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen. Her work explores the intersection of the data and energy industries for sustainable futures at the edge. Her most recent book, Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga (MIT Press), won the 4S Rachel Carson Prize for its social and political relevance, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year. For the last fifteen years she has been collaborating with renewable energy organisations and communities in Orkney, Scotland, on their net zero future; she has just launched ‘Northdark’, a solo role-playing game around a low carbon data center caught in a Nordic winter storm.