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Theorist working across philosophy, technology and design; Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at the University of California, San Diego, with visiting posts at the European Graduate School, SCIArc and NYU Shanghai. He founded and directs Antikythera and sits on the journal's editorial board. Author of The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition), The Terraforming, The Revenge of the Real, Accept All Cookies and the Agentworld research brief. In the corpus he wrote the program's research statement ("Antikythera"), the lectures Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation, After Alignment and For a General Theory of Simulations, The Noocene, the scenario The Myth of Blurope, and co-edited Hemispherical Stacks; his Noema essays (Planetary Sapience, The Model Is the Message, The Five Stages of AI Grief) seeded several of these.

London-based strategist, producer and writer working across design, technology, philosophy and urbanism. Associate Director of Antikythera, where she leads systems and strategy, and Director of MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins; previously led strategy for the Automation team at the UC San Diego Design Lab and researched at the think tank Autonomy. She is on the journal's editorial board and wrote AUTO–, the journal's Fordian history of platform automation (a book version is listed as upcoming); she also spoke at the Planetary Sapience Symposium.

Design Director of Antikythera and a member of the journal's editorial board, credited as Design Director on the journal works. Formerly associated with the Strelka Institute (The Terraforming program) and the Practice Lab platform. In the corpus he wrote the Substack post Rendering Scenario Fiction and is the subject of two interviews: Discourse™ X Nicolay Boyadjiev (GIGA News Room) and the Scratching the Surface conversation with Jarrett Fuller on media and design as inquiry.

Operations Director (credited in the journal as Production + Operations Director). Her background spans systems design, institutional architecture and crisis response; as part of Curative's founding team she helped scale a small startup into a large public-health operation and designed its adaptive testing and vaccination infrastructure, which led to an advisory role with the WHO's COVAX program. No authored works in the corpus.

Executive Assistant at Antikythera, with more than a decade of C-suite support experience across media, marketing, fashion and entertainment, and a degree in Translation and Interpretation from Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires. Thanked by name at the Planetary Sapience Symposium. No authored works in the corpus.

Interdisciplinary researcher, designer, curator and producer based in London, with a focus on the ecological and technological entanglements of marine environments. She is Antikythera's Research Manager and Network Curator, and also works as a Research Producer with Central Saint Martins' MA Narrative Environments. Graduate of CSM's Material Futures program. No authored works in the corpus.

Philosopher and researcher based at Antikythera and the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences; the network page lists him as Antikythera's staff Researcher and as a Global Perspective on Society postdoctoral fellow at NYU Shanghai. He co-edited Hemispherical Stacks with Bratton and Chen Qiufan and wrote the scenario Organoid Nation for it, and authored The Long L on habitability in substrate-agnostic ecologies (excerpted on Substack).

Program and media producer credited as Managing Editor and Production Coordinator on the journal. Before Antikythera she worked on The Terraforming program at the Strelka Institute and at Bang Bang Education; she holds an MA in Critical Media Studies and a BA in Journalism from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. No authored works in the corpus.

Design Technologist for Antikythera, credited on the journal's works. Previously worked on design-research briefs on data infrastructures, urban metabolic models and synthetic intelligence as part of The Terraforming think tank at the Strelka Institute. No authored works in the corpus.

Vice president and fellow at Google, where he leads a large research organization at the intersection of machine learning and devices (one contribution is Federated Learning) and founded the Paradigms of Intelligence team. He is on the journal's editorial board and an Affiliate Researcher 2024, and his book What Is Intelligence? opened the Antikythera book series with MIT Press, followed by What Is Life?. In the corpus he also has the What Is Intelligence? article-film, the Substack post The Silicon Interior, and Noema essays co-written with Bratton (The Model Is the Message), Peter Norvig (Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here) and James Manyika.

Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo (her network bio describes an earlier postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA's Institute on the Environment and Sustainability); PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell with a background in the geospatial industry. She is on the journal's editorial board and appears in the advisors/network list. No authored works in the corpus.

Literary theorist who writes on the relations of literature, science and technology; author of How We Became Posthuman, Writing Machines and Postprint. She is on the journal's editorial board and in the advisors/network list. In the corpus she wrote Modes of Cognition (designed by Knoth & Renner), which sets out criteria for cognition that extend to large language models, and she spoke at the Planetary Sapience Symposium.

Designer and author, Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT, partner in the practice modem and founder of Local Software; author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo and Local Code. He is on the journal's editorial board and in the advisors/network list. In the corpus he wrote Some Movements of Models (with Catalogtree) and spoke at the Planetary Sapience Symposium.

Award-winning Chinese science fiction writer, columnist and scriptwriter (also published as Stanley Chan), founder of Thema Mundi Studio; author of Waste Tide and, with Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041. He is on the journal's editorial board and an Affiliate Researcher 2024. In the corpus he wrote How to Think Unlike Humans? (with Connor Cook), co-edited Hemispherical Stacks with Bratton and Likavčan, and contributed the scenario Emerald Isle to it under the byline Stanley Qiufan Chen.

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University working on the origins of life, artificial life and life detection; co-developer with Lee Cronin of assembly theory, which Bratton cites as an influence on the research program. She is on the journal's editorial board and an Affiliate Researcher 2024. In the corpus she wrote Recursive Worlds (with Neo-Metabolism), a lecture on assembly theory and the technosphere as Earth's newest layer.