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# Benjamin Bratton

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/benjamin-bratton), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Program Director
- **Affiliation:** UC San Diego; Antikythera
- **Group:** Staff
- **Website:** https://bratton.info/

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, SCI_Arc 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.

## In the corpus

- [Agentworld (Research Brief)](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/agentworld-brief) (2026-06-25)
- [Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/science-agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-explosion) (2026-03-19)
- [Benjamin Bratton on Planetary Computation’s Next Phase](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/mitpress-reader-computation-in-motion) (2026-02-05)
- [The Myth of Blurope](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/hemstacks/blurope) (2025-11-21)
- [The Noocene](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/noocene) (2025-11-21)
- [Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily.](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-is-european-ai-a-lost-cause-not-necessarily) (2025-09-30)
- [Accept All Cookies](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/accept-all-cookies) (2025-05-10)
- [57 Ideas & Questions about Cognitive Infrastructures](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra-film) (2025-05-10)
- [For a General Theory of Simulations](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/theoryofsim) (2025-05-10)
- [After Alignment](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/afteralignment) (2025-05-10)
- [Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/spoc) (2025-05-10)
- [Antikythera](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/research) (2025-05-10)
- [The Five Stages Of AI Grief](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-the-five-stages-of-ai-grief) (2024-06-20)
- [The Model Is The Message](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-the-model-is-the-message) (2022-07-12)
- [Planetary Sapience](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-planetary-sapience) (2021-06-17)
- [An Update on The Stack](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/lecture-update-on-the-stack-2018) (2018-10-08)
- [The Stack](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/the-stack) (2016-02-19)
- [The Stack: Design and Geopolitics in the Age of Planetary-Scale Computing](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/lecture-the-stack-2014) (2014-10-29)

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._