Brian Millen received his B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY Purchase, and is currently an M.A. student in the Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. During his time there, he submitted a senior thesis entitled Education and the Future of Spirit, which argued for a renewed role of education in global political transformation. His theoretical interests involve the relationship between humans and technology and the political consequences thereof. His research interests concern utilizing a combination of computational text analysis with more traditional scholarly work of philosophy to investigate technology, politics, economics, and strategies for overcoming the Anthropocene. Currently, Brian is working on a project called Modeling Value in the Anthropocene: Contributions to a metacosmics, a vector semantics analysis, for which he is fulfilling a role as project manager, as well as working co-extensively with research collaborator Hampton Dodd as co-developer and co-author.

Hampton Dodd graduated from the CUNY School of Professional Studies with a B.A. in Communication and Media studies in 2021. Throughout his time there, he focused primarily on the relationship between technology and power through the theoretical lens of Neo-Marxist and Foucauldian analysis. These influences ultimately culminated in a senior thesis entitled Physiognomy, Facial Recognition Technology, & Biopolitics, which sought to uncover and trace the common genealogical thread of pseudoscientific physiognomic thought from the Age of Enlightenment through the Third Reich and into the emergent webs of facial recognition technologies presently proliferating across the world. Beyond this, his research interests encompass the development and application of technological tools in the advancement of digital cultural criticism, the critical analysis of big data and surveillance capitalism, and labor in the age of automation and the platform economy. Currently, Hampton is developing a collaborative project called Modeling Value in the Anthropocene: Contributions to a metacosmics, a vector semantics analysis of the Nanjing Lectures given by philosopher Bernard Stiegler between 2016 and 2019, alongside project-manager and co-author Brian Millen.