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Benjamin Bratton

Program Director · UC San Diego; Antikythera · website

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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, 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.

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