Graduate Student

Ori Loewinger

My research is centered in the intersection between the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of technology, and their ontological and political implications. I am interested in exploring the relationship between the ecological and the political, the place of technics in ecology and evolution, and the limits of cybernetics in the understanding of life. My thinking is influenced by biologists of the Eco-evo-devo field (Ecological, evolutionary, and developmental biology), who describe evolution not through exclusively genetic means, but through a variety of phenomena...

Robin Manley

My research is focused on the intellectual history and theoretical legacy of cybernetics. I
am principally interested in the epistemological effects of cybernetic influence across the
human and biological sciences during the postwar period—from research on language
and cognition to studies of ecology, economics, and social systems. At the same time, I
am concerned with the place of cybernetics in the longer philosophical tradition
addressed to questions of teleology, purposiveness, and life—from Aristotle through
Kant and Hegel and into twentieth century debates over...

William Morgan

William Morgan is a philosopher of technology whose research resides at the intersection of cybernetics, modern finance and artificial intelligence. He is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he is also member of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the editorial board of the journal, qui parle. Most recently, he was part of the inaugural class of Antikythera Studio Fellows, housed within the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. His work has previously appeared in e-flux, Theory, Culture & Society...

Deniz Morova

Pia Paul

Pia Paul is a PhD student in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley. Trained as a historian of science, she now works at the edges of disciplinary inquiry, examining the political and epistemic implications of postwar psychobiological concepts of organicist growth and self-organization. Pia is particularly interested in the ideological inflections of regeneration, freedom, and control in such theories of organicist growth—frameworks that continue to shape definitions of subjectivity and determinism in the human sciences. On a broader level, her research engages...

Simon(e) van Saarloos

Pia Sazani

Pia Sazani is an artist, educator, and researcher living in Oakland, California. They are interested in the collocation of the speculative mode and religious affect in contemporary literature, art, theory, and popular culture attempting to think the future.

With poet Sam Creely, they co-edit the chaplet series DanceNotes, which publishes experiments in dance notation. Read more at isitadancenote.com

Zina Wang

My research revolves around the relation between legible and illegible in visual experiences. A particular interest is the problematic idea of time- or culture-specific object, wherein emerge questions of repetition and singularity, representational technologies, transhistorical hermeneutics, and the margin of writing. BA, MA, the University of Chicago

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Camila YaDeau

Camila YaDeau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research brings together comparative political theory, intellectual history, China studies, post-colonial theory and literary theory of translation. Her dissertation, “Reconstructing the Political: Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and the Genealogy of Chinese Liberalism,” examines the relationship between liberalism, nationalism and state power in Chinese interpretations of liberalism during the long 20th century.

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