Felix Stalder is a professor for Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts, a senior researcher at the World Information Institute in Vienna and a moderator of

, a critical nexus of the discourse on net culture, since 1995. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on new modes of commons-based production, copyright, and transformation of subjectivity. He is the author/editor of numerous books, among othersManuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society (Polity Press, 2006),Deep Search. The Politics of Search Beyond Google (Transaction Publishers, 2009), Digital Solidarity (PML & Mute, 2014), and Kultur der Digitalität (Suhrkamp, 2016).