Yuk Hui

Yuk Hui (Prof. Dr. Phil. Habil.) is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he serves as the Chair of Human Conditions. Hui studied computer engineering at the University of Hong Kong and philosophy at Goldsmiths College in London where he wrote his doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). He obtained his Habilitation (venia legendi in philosophy of technology) from the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He also holds a professorship at the City University of Hong Kong as well as visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo, China Academy of Art and Strelka Institute Moscow. Hui is a juror of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture since 2020, and convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology  since 2014.

Hui is the author of several monographs including On the Existence of Digital Objects (prefaced by Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, 2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China : An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2016), Recursivity and Contingency (R&LI, 2019),  Art and Cosmotechnics (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and forthcoming Machine and Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). His books have been reviewed and endorsed by The Philosophical Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Theory Culture and Society, Issue in Science and Technology, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Folha de Sao Paulo among others; and have been translated into a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Portuguese.

Between 2016 and 2019, every spring, Yuk collaborated with Bernard Stiegler to conduct a series of lectures and seminars at the China Academy of Art: “The Question concerning Technology in China” (2016), “Gilbert Simondon’s Technological Thinking” (2017), “Cybernetics, Philosophy, Technology” (2018), and “Art and Cosmotechnics” (2019), all of which were part of the required curriculum for ICAST. In 2017, Yuk presented at “Century: A Proposal” as part of the Tribute 2018 – Future Media/Art Manifesto event, and in 2019, he convened the academic symposium “Postmoderns and After?—40 Years after the Publication of ‘The Postmodern Condition” in which ICAST both assisted in organizing and participated in discussions.