Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, and edits the journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. His most recent monographs are: Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (Routledge, 2018); Peacebuilding: The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1997–2017 (Palgrave, 2017); The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (with Julian Reid) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Routledge, 2014).

Christian Fuchs is a Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) and the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He has published widely on critical and Marxist theory; on digital media & society; and on media, culture and society. Christian is co-editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at). Among his books are Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter (2018); Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet (2016); Reading Marx in the Information Age (2016); Digital Labour and Karl Marx (2014); Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media (2015); Social Media: A Critical Introduction (2014, 2nd edition, 2017); OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism (2014). http://fuchs.uti.at, @fuchschristian.