Joanna Zylinska is Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London.

Joanna is the author of eight books on philosophy, technology and art. The primary concern of her work is the constitution of the human as both a species and a historical subject. Adopting the geological probe of ‘deep time’, she has looked at the emergence of the human in conjunction with technologies, such as tools and other artefacts as well as communication in its various forms: language, storytelling, ethics, art, and, last but not least, analogue and digital media. The planetary perspective of her work is anchored in the socio-political concerns of the here and now: primarily, the ecological and economic crises, but also the gendering and racialisation of the apocalyptic narratives brought in as responses to those crises.

Joanna combines her philosophical writings with image-based art practice and curatorial work.