Benjamin Breen is an Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) and has published articles on early modern globalization, environmental history, and the history of addiction. He currently completing a book with the working title The Future That Never Arrived: Experimental Drugs, Cold War Science, and the First Psychedelic Era, 1933-1980.

Danielle Carr is a writer and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She writes about the politics and history of science, especially the mind sciences. She is currently a Lindt Fellow, completing a dissertation about the development of brain implants for psychiatric disorder. Her essays have appeared in publications including n+1, the Nation, the Baffler, PioneerWorks, and Jacobin. Her academic work has been supported by organizations including the NSF, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation, the Chateaubriand Fellowship, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Council for European Studies, and the Mellon Foundation.

David Cecchetto is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto, is widely published as an author, co-author, and editor, and is co-editor of the Proximities: Experiments in Nearness book series (University of Minnesota Press). David’s next book—Listening in the Afterlife of Data: Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication—is forthcoming in early 2022 with Duke University Press. As a quasi-practicing non-musician, David has presented work in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Russia, and on the web.

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on systems theory, narrative theory, and Gaia theory. His latest book is Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene (Minnesota 2020); other books include Neocybernetics and Narrative (Minnesota 2014), Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (Fordham 2008), and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (Michigan 2001). He co-edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press, and is the editor or co-editor of seven essay collections, most recently Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and with Manuela Rossini, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Cambridge 2017). He was Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress in 2019; Senior Fellow at the Center for Literature and the Natural Sciences, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2015; and Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2010-11. Clarke served on the Curatorial Advisory Board at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany, for Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics, directed by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel in 2020-21.

Professor Dunbar-Hester conducts interpretive research into the politics of technology. She is the author of two award-winning monographs on activism in technical communities: most recently, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton U. Press, 2020); and Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press, 2014).

John Durham Peters is María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Chair of Film and Media Studies at Yale and is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (1999), Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and Liberal Tradition (2005), The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015), and most recently, Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (2020), co-authored with the late Kenneth Cmiel, all from the University of Chicago Press. He’s lectured in many countries and advised or co-advised almost forty doctoral dissertations.

Lori Emerson is Associate Professor in the English Department and the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program (IAWP). She is also Director of IAWP and the Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson is co-author of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press 2022) with Jussi Parikka and Darren Wershler, author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press June 2014), and editor of numerous collections.

Theodore Gordon is a musicologist and musician whose work connects experimental music with science & technology studies. His current book project, The Composer’s Black Box: Cybernetics & Instrumentality in Post-War American Music, shows how scientific concepts and technologies borrowed from cybernetics, information theory, and systems-thinking became catalysts for new musical organizations—of practices, processes, and bodies. His writing has been published by Contemporary Music Review, Current Musicology, Portable Gray, the Library of Congress, the American Musicological Association, and Cultural Anthropology, and his research has been supported by the New York Public Library and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. He has written program and liner notes for Unseen Worlds, and contributed exhibition texts for the 2019 exhibition "Sounding Circuits" at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He performs and improvises with the viola and the Buchla Music Easel. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Margret Grebowicz is an environmental philosopher living in upstate New York. She is the author of four books--Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World, Whale Song, The National Park to Come, and Why Internet Porn Matters--and is currently finishing a new short book, Rescue Me: On Dog Abundance and Social Scarcity. She is interested in wilderness, animals, and desire. Her recent articles have appeared in Slate and The Atlantic, on topics ranging from Himalayan mountaineering to national parks on the southern US border to the utopian imaginaries behind dog training. She's the founding editor of a new short book series for Duke University Press, called Practices, and has a serious mushroom foraging practice herself. She is University Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

James A. Hodges studies the materiality of digital cultures. He is currently Fred M. Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Senior Book Reviews Editor for Information & Culture, and Junior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.

Andreas Killen is professor of history City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He writes about the history of psychiatry and of the human sciences and is currently working on a book about the cultural history of brain science in the 1950s.

Nina Lykke is a Professor at Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark. She has participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years. She is also a poet and writer, and has recently co-founded international networks for Queer Death Studies, and for Ecocritical and Decolonial Research. Current research interests: feminist theory; intersectional methodologies; queering of cancer, death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfeminist, materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives; autophenomenography; poetic writing. Author of numerous book, ao Cosmodolphins. (with M. Bryld, 2000), Feminist Studies (2010), and Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (2022). Has recently published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies; NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research; Catalyst. Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Environmental Humanities; Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture; Kerb Journal; and Lambda Nordica.

Jeffrey Mathias is a historian of science and a phd candidate at Cornell University. His dissertation, “An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of Mind,” examines mid-century fascination with isolation as both an object between psychiatry, psychology, and neurophysiology and part of a cultural imaginary of the remote and hostile territories where the Cold War might be fought. This project has been supported by NASA, the American Historical Association, and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Jan Müggenburg is a professor of media and history of science at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Since 2018, he is leading the German Research Foundation-funded project Assistive Media, which investigates how barriers inherent in human-machine interactions are overcome. His treatise »Lebhafte Artefakte« (2018; tr: Lively Artifacts) portrays the foundational history of cybernetics and groundbreaking research endeavors of Heinz von Foerster's Biological Computer Lab, which influenced the field of AI.

Lucas Richert is an Associate Professor at UW-Madison, where he holds the Urdang Chair in Pharmacy History. He is the author of three monographs and, more recently, he co-edited Cannabis: Global Histories (The MIT Press, 2021), which provided a wide-ranging geographical, temporal, and thematic view of cannabis as both intoxicant and therapeutic substance. Richert also serves as the Historical Director at the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.

Erica Robles-Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her research focuses on the role media technologies play in the production of space. In particular, she concentrates on configurations that enable a sense of public, collective, or shared experience, especially through the structuring of visibility and gaze. Trained as both an experimental psychologist and a cultural historian she has employed a range of methodologies to explore the definition of media-space. She is currently writing a book about the 20th century transformation of Protestant worship space into a highly mediated, spectacular "mega-church" (under contract, Yale University Press). She is also co-editor of Public Culture

John Shiga is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University. His teaching focuses on media and communication in cross-cultural, scientific and urban contexts. His research interests include sonar, nuclear imperialism, environmental media, arts-based knowledge translation and explanatory journalism.

Claire Isabel Webb earned her Ph.D. graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program in 2020. An internship at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in 2008 sparked the topic of Webb’s dissertation: Technologies of Perception: Searches for Life Beyond Earth. Informed by her ongoing work with the SETI group Breakthrough Listen at U.C. Berkeley, Webb’s book project historically and ethnographically tracks how scientists have investigated extraterrestrial life forms—both microbes and beings—since the Space Age. She used feminist and decolonize frameworks of analysis to theorize historical and current scientific imaginations of alien life. Webb plans to complete this project as a Fellow at the Berggruen Institute and to continue to forge cross-disciplinary connections between scientists and humanists.

Charlie Williams is a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London. His research explores twentieth-century culture through the lens of the human sciences. His doctoral thesis examined the relationship between Cold War ‘brainwashing’ science and the 1960s psychedelic movement. Charlie’s current research focuses on the role played by the psy sciences in shaping cultural understandings of dropouts, outsiders and isolates in post war Britain. He is interested in how historical developments in the psy sciences have influenced how we interact with our social and physical environment and govern our minds and bodies today.

Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at the University of California, Berkeley and is on the Executive Committee of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media.

Zeavin’s first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters. She is at work on her second book, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press, 2023). Other work has appeared in or is forthcoming from differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Dissent, The Guardian, n+1, Technology & Culture, and beyond.