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  • Contributors

Dennis Desroches is Assistant Professor of English at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada. He is currently at work extending the question concerning being to the domain of scientific experiment, with a particular interest in the relationships that exist in this regard between classical and quantum experimental arrangements.

David J. Gunkel is Associate Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University, where he teaches courses on cyberspace, computer-mediated communication, and interactive media development. His first book, Hacking Cyberspace, was published by Westview Press in 2001. For more information visit http://www.gunkelweb.com.

Judith Hawley is a Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the General Editor of Literature and Science, 1660–1832 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003–04).

Vicki Kirby is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is the author of Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal (Routledge, 1997) and Judith Butler: Live Theory (Continuum, forthcoming).

Randi Markussen is Associate Professor of Information Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She teaches organizational analysis, gender and technology studies, and science and technology studies. Her research is at the intersections of women, gender, technoscience, and health care practices. She is co-founder of the first Danish STS center. She has written several papers in Danish and international journals on gender and sociotechnical work, human centered computer systems [End Page 445] design, sociotechnical practices in health care, and hybridizations of landscapes.

Finn Olesen is Associate Professor of Information Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He teaches philosophy of science, arts and technology, and science and technology studies. He has published articles in Danish and international journals on sociotechnical practices in health care, on posthumanity, and on metaphors in medical communication emphasizing the space between philosophical reflections and practical applications. He has edited and co-edited collections on technology and philosophy, and actor-network theory (in Danish). He is co-founder of the first Danish STS center.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young is Associate Professor of German in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His main areas of research are German media theory, the convergence of systems theory and evolution, theories of collective memory, and Science Fiction. He is currently working on Media, Systems, Spheres, and Memory: Observations of German Theory, a study of technology, communication, and evolution (both social and biological) in the writings of Friedrich Kittler, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk, and Jan Assmann. [End Page 446]

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