AbdouMaliq Simone (people as infrastructure, urban majority, informal relational systems)
Achille Mbembe (necropolitics, planetary violence, colonial reason)
Aimé Césaire (Negritude, colonial wound, poetic totality)
Allan Kaprow (happening, environment, event structure)
Andrea Fraser (museum critique, performed institution, reflexive display)
Angela Davis (abolitionism, intersectionality, militant praxis)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (friction, patchiness, supply-chain capitalism)
Annemarie Mol (ontological politics, enacted realities, material practice)
Aníbal Quijano (coloniality of power, racial capitalism, epistemic domination)
Anto Lloveras (field architecture, scalar grammar, metabolic infrastructure, operational writing, distributed corpus, gravitational corpus, hybrid legibility, frictional metropolis, diagonal reading, Socioplastics)
Arturo Escobar (ontological design, pluriverse, post-development)
Bernard Stiegler (technics, tertiary retention, grammatization)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (epistemologies of the South, ecologies of knowledge)
Bruno Latour (actor-networks, modes of existence, infrastructural mediation)
Cedric Price (anticipatory architecture, generators, open systems)
Christopher Alexander (pattern language, generative form, everyday architecture)
Claire Bishop (participatory art, antagonism, critique of consensus)
David Harvey (urban process, capital, right to the city)
Dipesh Chakrabarty (provincializing Europe, historical Anthropocene)
Donna Haraway (cyborgs, situated knowledges, more-than-human worlds)
Doreen Massey (relational space, multiplicity, spatial politics)
Édouard Glissant (relation, creolization, archipelagic thought)
Edward Said (orientalism, contrapuntal reading, imperial knowledge)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (queer theory, affect, reparative reading)
Forensic Architecture (spatial evidence, counter-forensics, architectural investigation)
Francisco Varela (autopoiesis, perception, embodied cognition)
Franco “Bifo” Berardi (semiocapitalism, cognitive labour, soul at work)
Frantz Fanon (decolonization, violence, psychic liberation)
Friedrich Kittler (media materialism, storage systems, inscription technologies)
Félix Guattari (ecosophy, transversality, machinic assemblages)
Gaston Bachelard (poetics of space, material imagination, intimate spatiality)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (subalternity, translation, planetary ethics)
Geoffrey Bowker (standards, memory practices, knowledge infrastructures)
Georges Perec (infra-ordinary attention, everyday enumeration, minor evidence)
Gilbert Simondon (technical objects, transduction, individuation)
Gilles Deleuze (rhizome, plateau, assemblage)
Gordon Matta-Clark (cut, void, urban anatomy)
Gregory Bateson (ecology of mind, double bind, relational cognition)
Hal Foster (archival impulse, anti-aesthetic, institutional remains)
Hans Haacke (institutional critique, systems aesthetics, real-time politics)
Harun Farocki (operational images, surveillance, image politics)
Henri Lefebvre (production of space, rhythmanalysis, everyday urbanity)
Hito Steyerl (poor images, circulationism, networked visibility)
Humberto Maturana (autopoiesis, structural coupling, living systems)
Ilya Prigogine (dissipative structures, becoming, non-linear order)
Isabelle Stengers (cosmopolitics, slow science, situated inquiry)
Ivan Illich (deschooling, convivial tools, institutional critique)
Jacques Derrida (différance, writing, archive fever)
Jacques Rancière (emancipated spectator, distribution of the sensible)
James C. Scott (state vision, hidden transcripts, anarchic knowledge)
Jane Bennett (vibrant matter, political ecology of things)
Jane Jacobs (organized complexity, civic observation, street intelligence)
John Law (ontological politics, enacted realities, material practice)
Joseph Beuys (social sculpture, pedagogical form, expanded art)
Judith Butler (performativity, vulnerability, precarity)
Karen Barad (agential realism, intra-action, matter-meaning entanglement)
Keller Easterling (active form, infrastructure space, medium design)
Kevin Lynch (image of the city, legibility, wayfinding)
Lauren Berlant (cruel optimism, public feeling, affective infrastructure)
Lina Bo Bardi (social architecture, material vernacular, civic use)
Luciana Parisi (abstract machines, computational aesthetics, algorithmic matter)
Lucy Lippard (dematerialization, conceptual art, networked practice)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (general systems theory, organismic relations, scalar organization)
Manuel Castells (network society, space of flows, informational urbanism)
Marshall McLuhan (medium, message, extensions of man)
María Puig de la Bellacasa (matters of care, relational ontology, more-than-human responsibility)
Michel Foucault (archaeology, dispositifs, governmentality)
Michel de Certeau (tactics, spatial use, practices of everyday life)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles (maintenance art, care labour, public systems)
N. Katherine Hayles (posthumanism, embodied information, media-specific analysis)
Nancy Fraser (redistribution, recognition, justice)
Nicolas Bourriaud (relational aesthetics, post-production, social form)
Niklas Luhmann (systems theory, operational closure, social autopoiesis)
Paul Gilroy (Black Atlantic, diaspora, counter-modernity)
Paul N. Edwards (knowledge infrastructures)
Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy, conscientization, emancipatory learning)
Pier Vittorio Aureli (autonomy, absolute architecture, political form)
Pierre Bourdieu (habitus, field, symbolic capital)
Rem Koolhaas (generic city, content management, metropolitan congestion)
Robert Smithson (entropy, site/non-site, geological time)
Rosalind Krauss (expanded field, post-medium condition, sculptural logic)
Rosalind Williams (technological modernity, systems landscapes, infrastructural culture)
Sara Ahmed (orientation, queer phenomenology, cultural will)
Saskia Sassen (global cities, expulsions, territorial inequality)
Shannon Mattern (urban media, infrastructural intelligence, mediated publics)
Silvia Federici (social reproduction, enclosure, witch-hunts)
Stafford Beer (cybernetics, viable systems, operational feedback)
Stuart Hall (encoding/decoding, articulation, cultural politics)
Susan Leigh Star (boundary objects, classification, invisible work)
Susan Sontag (photography, mediated perception, critical image)
Timothy Morton (hyperobjects, dark ecology, ecological scale)
Trevor Paglen (vision machines, satellite power, evidence)
Vilém Flusser (apparatus, technical images, programmed vision)
Walter Benjamin (arcades, mechanical reproduction, constellations)
Walter Mignolo (decoloniality, border thinking, modernity/coloniality)
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (control, habit, programmed inequality)
Yuk Hui (cosmotechnics, planetary plurality, technical cultures)
bell hooks (engaged pedagogy, radical education, teaching as liberation)