Matteo Pasquinelli (MA, Bologna; PhD, London) is assistant professor at the Pratt Institute New York, and from 2016 visiting professor in Media Theory at the University of Arts, Karlsruhe. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and curated the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (2015), among others. In Berlin at NGBK he co-curated the exhibition The Ultimate Capital is the Sun and at the Academie der Künste, the symposium “The Metabolism of the Social Brain.”