Merijn Oudenampsen

Merijn Oudenampsen is an urban sociologist, active member of the Flexmens collective and a freelance researcher. His main research interest is Dutch populism.

• politics,
• environment,
• campaign

Bernardo Gutiérrez

Bernardo Gutiérrez (@bernardosampa) is a Spanish-Brazilian journalist and writer who researches networked movements, hacker culture and peer-to-peer politics. He is the founder of the network FuturaMedia.net, lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and participates in the Global Revolution Research Network (GRRN).

• public space,
• public domain,
• occupy,
• tactical research

Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist, artist, who teaches at the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• biotechnology,
• biowarfare

Ryan Griffis

Ryan Griffis makes work in the form of visual art, text, curated exhibits, and performance that usually focuses on relationships between activism, visual culture, and technology.

Pit Schultz

Media artist, lives and works in Berlin. Co-founder of - a moderated mailing list for net criticism, collaborative text filtering, and cultural politics of the nets (www.nettime.org) Pit Schultz is also the co-founder of the Bootlab abd Klubradio.de, both in Berlin.

Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna is the writer of Qifa Nabki [?ki-f? ?neb-k?] a blog about Lebanese politics, history, and culture. He is a PhD student in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University. He works on classical Arabic literature, Islamic social and intellectual history, and has published on subjects ranging from medieval encyclopaedism to travel literature, to the material culture of the pre-modern Mediterranean world.

• middle east

Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

• political science

Oleg Kireev

Oleg Kireev (born 1975) - art- and mediacritic, editor and curator, writer, critic and activist, founder of the Ghetto collective, Moscow. Participated in a number of media-political campaigns ("Against all parties", 1999) and actions ("Barricade at Bolshaya Nikitskaya", May 1998). Author of articles on art and politics in the Russian and international press ("Novaya gazeta", "Nezavasimaya gazeta", "Flash art", "Siksi", "Mute"

• urban intervention,
• criticism

Gergory Sholette

Gregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York. 

• art,
• activism,
• theory,
• economics

 Soda_Jerk

Soda_Jerk is an art collective established in 2002. It is comprised of sisters Dan and Dominique Angeloro, who are currently based in Berlin.

Tetsuo Kogawa

Tetsuo Kogawa's interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches.

Joanne Richardson

Organiser, networker and writer, based in Cluj. Born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in New York. Ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer.

Iona Sharp Casas

Iona Sharp Casas is a Catalan/English independent writer, researcher and cultural analyst based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• art,
• archive,
• theory

Ian Alan Paul

Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice includes the production of experimental documentary, critical fiction, and media art, aiming to produce novel conditions for the exploration of contemporary politics, ethics, and aesthetics in global contexts. His projects have approached a wide variety of topics including the Guantanamo Bay Prison, Fortress Europe, the Zapatista communities, Drone Warfare, the military regime in post-revolution/post-coup Cairo, and most recently with the history and future of Palestine.

• art,
• tactical media

Gene Ray

Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin, is a member of the Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC).

• art,
• tactical media

Ned Rossiter

Ned Rossiter is is a media theorist who researches on the political dimensions of labour and life in informational economies. He is currently investigating global logistics industries and the intersections between labour regimes, IT infrastructures, electronic waste industries and questions of informational sovereignty.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• post-governmental organisation,
• info-activism

Donatella DellaRatta

Donatella Della Ratta is a PhD fellow at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, New Islamic Public Sphere Program, Copenhagen University and at the Danish Institute in Damascus.

• net.activism

Rodrigo Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes is a lecturer in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.

• network cultures,
• activism,
• net.activism,
• post-governmental organisation