Symposium Program 2027

Tiziana Terranova is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Università di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, where she co-founded the Centre for the Study of Transnational Technocultures (CRiTT).

In 2020, she co-founded the Critical Computation Bureau (CCB) with Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Luciana Parisi and Oana Parvan. A leading theorist of digital networks and network cultures, her work examines the political and cultural implications of information technologies, platform capitalism, and computational infrastructures.

She is the author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (2004) and After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common (2022), with a forthcoming book Network Social: On the Return of the Social in the Post-Digital Age (Minnesota University Press).

Terranova’s research explores the intersection of digital technologies, media and cultural studies, and political economy, with recent work addressing technoliberalism and the network social, recursive colonialism, and the potential for post-capitalist networked commons. 

Orit Halpern is Lighthouse Professor of Digital Culture at Technische Universität Dresden.

A historian of science and media, her research examines the intersections of technology, cognition, and governance, particularly how computational infrastructures shape contemporary understandings of ecology, economy, and planetary management.

She is the author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (2014) and co-author of Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope (2021).

Halpern’s work critically interrogates how concepts like resilience, smartness, and optimization have transformed environmental thought and practice, tracing the genealogies of computational approaches to ecological crisis and their implications for futurity and planetary inhabitation. 

Kyle Stine is an associate teaching professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Program in Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

His research examines the material and technical forms of media, with particular focus on computational hardware. He has a book in progress titled Of Seashells and Silicon: An Inquiry into the Ends of Human Design that investigates the cultural history of semiconductor chips and microprocessors, asking how the design and manufacture of hardware have shaped the development of multimedia computing and, more recently, artificial intelligence.

His writings on cinema, media, art, and technology have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Discourse, Grey Room, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, October, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. He is co-editor of Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time: Essays on Hardwired Temporalities (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).