Cybernetics

Luciana Parisi’s research is a philosophical investigation of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. She is a Professor in Media Philosophy at the Program in Literature and the Computational Media Art and Culture at Duke University. She is the author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004, Continuum Press) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013, MIT Press). She is completing a monograph on alien epistemologies and the transformation of logical thinking in computation.

Austrian philosopher known for his work in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.

English documentary filmmaker.

Theoretical physicist, AI language developer. Graduated from Moscow University in Theoretical Physics and got his Ph.D. in 1957. Worked on neutron and solid-state physics before focusing on statistical regularization methods and developing REFAL, one of the first AI languages.

Physiologist and researcher. Published research papers with Walter Cannon and Norbert Wiener, including the influential article 'Behavior, Purpose and Teleology'. Member of the core group at the Macy Conferences.

Mathematician and philosopher. Professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes.

British theorist, consultant, and professor. Known for his work in operational research and management cybernetics.

Thomas Rid (born 1975) is a political scientist best known for his work on the history and risks of information technology in conflict. He is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Previously he was a professor of security studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher. Known for his influential blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and recognized for his writings on radical politics, music, and popular culture.

Poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. Lyricist for the Grateful Dead, founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Key figure in the early history of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and co-founder of the Bolsheviks. Rival to Vladimir Lenin and founder of his own faction, Vpered. Influential opponent of the Bolshevik government and Lenin from a Marxist leftist perspective.