Nikolas Kompridis is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge), the Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury), and Cinematic Heterotopias: Fugitive Spaces of Refuge and Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming). He has also published more than 60 referred articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy, political theory, and aesthetics, and is currently working on a new book proposing a transformation of “critical theory” that responds to the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century. One of those unprecedented challenges arises from the power of AI: 1) to shatter the epistemological and ethical conditions necessary for any democratic form of life, and 2) to erase the difference between human being and AI and to assimilate the meaning of human being to the being of artificial “intelligence.” These are the issues Kompridis will be addressing in his contributions to the intellectual life and critical investigations of the Center for AI, Society, Critique. Since his “retirement” six years ago as Research Professor and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, he has been a Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University Berlin, Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics at the University and Toronto. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University.
