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N. Katherine Hayles‘ (Duke Univ. & UCLA) research focuses on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and signals that we are at a crossroads. She is author of many monographs, including five with the University of Chicago Press: Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (2025), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017), How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012), My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005), and How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999), as well as from MIT Press, Writing Machines (2002).

“My first book and where it led.” Media Theory 9, no. 2 (2025): 191-200.

Colin Koopman’s (Univ. of Oregon) research, writing, and teaching focuses on political theory and ethics, particularly the politics and ethics of technology. His current research is concerned with the politics of information, questions about data and democracy. He is author of Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy (UChicago Press 2025), How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (UChicago Press 2019), Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (IUP 2013), and Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (CUP 2009). Koopman was Project Lead on the Our Data, Our Selves web project (2021-22).

“Artificing intelligence: From isolating IQ to amoral AI.” AI & Society 40 (2025): 3149-61.

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