Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Cofounder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Posthuman Studies. He is the author of five books and the editor of more than ten essay collections. Spencer Hawkins is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.