Dr. Johannes Bruder is a scholar of digital culture and technology with a background in STS and media studies. He focuses on psychological categories, sociological models, and speculative designs encoded in digital technologies to get a grip on social and psychic life. Johannes’s first monograph, “Cognitive Code. Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain” (MQUP, 2019) is based on fieldwork in labs at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and provides insights into the bio-politics of contemporary machine learning. He has a strong interest in experimental research methods, alternative pedagogies and critical publishing practices that unsettle disciplinary paradigms and render humanities research operational in real-world contexts.

Johannes is the Head of the Critical Media Lab, facilitates learning in the BA Process Design @ Hyperwerk and the MA Experimental Design, and is a member of the PhD program MAKE/SENSE. He was invited for fellowships at King’s College London, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, and Concordia University Montréal and taught at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, the University of Basel, the University of Lucerne, ETH Zürich, and Sciences Po in Paris. His work has been published in Science, Technology & Human Values, Tsantsa, culturemachine, Discourse, among others; he contributed to books published by MIT Press, Routledge, Valiz, De Gruyter, and more.

Best PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne (2015)