Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is associate professor of sociology at the University College London, where he leads the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group. He is an editor at the British Journal of Sociology and the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022). His second book project, Real Fake: An Intellectual History of Distortion, documents the historical role of market technologies in shaping our collective understandings of reality and truth. His public writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Public Seminar, Roar Magazine, and other publications.

James Auger is the director of the department of design at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS) and the Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS and ENSCI Les Ateliers). His practice-based design research examines the social, cultural and personal impacts of technology and the products that exist as a result of its development and application. Running parallel to his academic work James is a partner in the speculative design practice Auger-Loizeau, a collaboration founded in 2000. Auger-Loizeau projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including MoMA, New York; 21_21, Tokyo; The Science Museum, London; The National Museum of China, Beijing and Ars Electronica, Linz.