David J. Gunkel - Guest Blogger for September

This month's guest blogger is David J. Gunkel, Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University, USA. Dr. Gunkel has a PhD in philosophy, teaches in the area of new media studies, and researches and writes about the philosophical aspects of information and communication technology.

He is the author of three well respected books in the field: Hacking Cyberspace (Westview Press, 2001), Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Purdue University Press, 2007), and The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots and Ethics (MIT Press, 2012). He is the founding co-editor of the Indiana University Press series in Digital Game Studies The founding co-editor and web programmer of the International Journal of Zizek Studies And co-editor of the book Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture and the Politics of a Digital Age (Continuum, 2011).