Benjamin H. Bratton is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at the University of California, San Diego. His work spans social and political theory, computer science, speculative design, and artificial intelligence.
He is the author of The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press), which provides a comprehensive framework for understanding planetary-scale computation, and The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World. Bratton is also the Program Director of The Terraforming at Strelka Institute and Director of the Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute.
His current research develops a new philosophy of the “artificial” in relation to climate change, planetary science, synthetic intelligence, and the prospects of viable planetary futures.