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Ryan Bishop
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at the Winchester School of
Art, the University of Southampton and co-director of the Winchester Centre
for Global Futures in Art Design & Media. He edits the book series “Theory Now”
for Polity Press and co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) with John
Armitage and Doug Kellner, as well as serving on the editorial board of Theory
Culture and Society. He writes on critical theory, literary studies, visual culture,
military technology, urbanism and aesthetics.
Roberto Terrosi
Italian scholar, Roberto Terrosi, studied aesthetics in Rome with Mario Perniola,
focusing on the relationships between aesthetics and technology, He later went
to Japan where he worked at the Kyoto University as Researcher and at Tohoku
University at Sendai as Associate Professor in aesthetics and art-history. He
left Japan following the 2011 earthquake and now is an independent scholar
and “cultore della materia” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His work
includes: The Philosophy of Post-human (1997); History of the Concept of Art
(2006) and Philosophy and Anthropology of Portrait (2012).
Tõnu Viik
Tõnu Viik is a professor of philosophy at Tallinn University, Estonia. He received
his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2003 writing a dissertation on Hegel’s
philosophy of culture. Currently, he is working on cultural phenomenology.
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