Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and currently serves as the Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  The Myaamia Center is a unique collaborative effort supported by the Miami Tribe and Miami University for the purpose of advancing the language and cultural research interests of the Miami people.  Daryl received a masters of Arts with focus on linguistics from The University of Montana.  He has worked with the Miami people developing language and cultural materials since 1995.  Visit the Myaamia Center website for information about current projects.

 

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on literary theory, feminist theory, poetry, continental philosophy and queer theory. Her most recent books are Essays on Extinction with Open Humanities Press. She is currently completing a book on Fragility for Duke University Press.

 

 

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. His recent books include The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, Democratic Activism (2013); A World of Becoming (2011); and Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (2008). He is the former editor of Political Theory, a co-founder of theory&event. And co-moderator of the blog, The Contemporary Condition. His new book, provisionally entitled Freedom, Belonging and the Anthropocene, will explore what “belonging” can mean during an age in which our dominant practices are self-defeating.

 

Joseph Masco teaches anthropology and science studies at the University of Chicago.  He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006, Princeton University Press) and The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror (2014, Duke University Press).  His current work examines environmental crisis, with a particular focus on scientific visualization and planetary thinking.

 

Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University, where he is Founding Director of 3CT: The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. Cary Wolfe’s books and edited collections include Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), the edited collections Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003) and (with Branka Arsic) The Other Emerson (Minnesota, 2010), and, most recently, What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010) and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago, 2013). He is founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, which publishes six books per year by noted authors such as Donna Haraway, Roberto Esposito, Isabelle Stengers, Michel Serres, Vilem Flusser, and many others.

Joanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of five books – including Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014; e-version freely available), Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (with Sarah Kember; MIT Press, 2012) and Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009) – she is also a co-editor of the JISC-funded project Living Books about Life, which publishes online books at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences. Her translation of Stanislaw Lem’s major philosophical treatise, Summa Technologiae, came out from the University of Minnesota’s Electronic Mediations series in 2013. Zylinska is a co-editor of Culture Machine, an open-access journal of culture and theory and a curator its sister project, Photomediations Machine. She combines her philosophical writings and curatorial work with photographic art practice.