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Jean-Hugues Barthélémy is a research associate at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre, and director of the seminar “Individuation and Culture” at La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord. He is the author of Penser l’individuation. Simondon et la philosophie de la nature (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005), Penser la connaissance et la technique après Simondon (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005), Simondon ou l’Encyclopédisme génétique (Paris: PUF, 2008), and The Theatre of Individuation. On Gilbert Simondon (co-written with Bernard Stiegler, translated by Taylor Adkins, Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, forthcoming) and is chief editor of the Cahiers Simondon.

Roland Boer is a research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Among numerous publications, the most recent are Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology (2012) and Nick Cave: Love, Death and Apocalypse (2012).

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is a media theorist and historian of science working at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His essays on cybernetics, historiography, and French theory have appeared in journals including Critical Inquiry, The IEEE Annals on the History of Computing, and Interaction Studies. He may be reached through his website at www.bernardg.com.

Xavier Guchet holds a PhD in Philosophy, and is an Associate Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of two books: Les Sens de l’évolution technique (Paris: Léo Scheer, 2005), and Pour un humanisme technologique. Culture, technique et société dans la philosophie de Gilbert Simondon (Paris: PUF, 2010), and has published several articles on the philosophy of technology.

Mark B. N. Hansen is a media theorist and cultural critic whose work focuses on the experiential impact of new media technologies. His current research explores the experiential challenges posed by 21st-century media, with emphasis on the expansion of sensibility through microcomputational sensing and the anticipatory, future-directed operation of data-driven media forms. His books include Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan, 2000), New Philosophy for New Media (MIT, 2004), Bodies in Code (Routledge, 2006), and three co-edited volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (with T. Carman, Cambridge, 2005), [End Page 182] Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (with Bruce Clarke, Duke, 2009), and Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago, 2010). He teaches at Duke University.

Mark Hayward is in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has published articles on television, media technology and economics in journals such as Cultural Studies, M/C, and Modern Italy. He has also translated work from French and Italian.

Dermot Ryan is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His research focuses on British and Irish literature of the 18th century, with an emphasis on print culture and postcolonial theory. His essays on the intersections of print culture and empire have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Études irlandaises. His first book, Technologies of Empire: Writing, Imagination and the Making of Imperial Networks, is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press.

Henning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He has translated texts by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Georges Canguilhem into German and is interested in machine art, virtual laboratories, and the history of science. His recent books include Die Helmholtz-Kurven. Auf der Spur der verlorenen Zeit (Berlin: 2009) and Bruno Latour. Zur Einführung (Hamburg: 2011).

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University, Toronto. She is the author of The Image in French Philosophy (2007) and edited and contributed to European Film Theory (2008). Her articles have been published in a range of scholarly journals and edited collections. She recently completed her first feature film, Man of Glass (2012). In 2013 she will be a visiting professor at ECLA of Bard, a Liberal Arts University in Berlin, and artist in residence at Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Hunter Vaughan is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His first book, Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais...

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