Thinkers
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Achille Mbembe
Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist.
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist theorist, wrote from Mussolini's prisons.
Arlie Hochschild
American sociologist, UC Berkeley. Founding figure of the sociology of emotions.
Byung-Chul Han
South Korean-German philosopher.
Cas Wouters
Dutch sociologist. Student of Norbert Elias.
Edward Said
Palestinian-American literary theorist and public intellectual.
Eva Illouz
French-Israeli sociologist. Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian-origin tech critic. Author, founder of The Syllabus.
Frantz Fanon
Martinican-French psychiatrist and political philosopher. Wrote from the Algerian independence movement.
Guy Debord
French theorist, founding member of the Situationist International.
Hannah Arendt
German-Jewish political theorist. One of the 20th century's most important political philosophers.
Jonathan Crary
American art historian and cultural theorist, Columbia.
Jonathan Turner
American sociologist, UC Riverside. Evolutionary sociology of emotions.
Kamal Soleimani
Professor at El Colegio de México. Columbia PhD in Islamic & Middle Eastern History.
Lawrence Lessig
American legal scholar, Harvard. Founder of Creative Commons.
Manuel Castells
Spanish-Catalan sociologist. Arguably the most cited social scientist of the information age.
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian media theorist.
Martin Hilbert
Professor, UC Davis — Computational Social Science and Communication.
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian. One of the most cited thinkers of the 20th century.
Norbert Elias
German-British sociologist.
Otl Aicher
German graphic designer. Designed the 1972 Munich Olympics visual identity. Co-founded the Ulm School of Design.
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist. One of the most cited social scientists of the 20th century.
Randall Collins
American sociologist. Professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Roland Barthes
French literary theorist and semiotician.
Ron Deibert
Canadian political scientist. Founder and director of Citizen Lab, University of Toronto.
Ruben Pater
Dutch designer and researcher.
Sara Ahmed
British-Australian feminist scholar and cultural theorist.
Shoshana Zuboff
American professor, Harvard Business School emerita.
Stuart Hall
Jamaican-British cultural theorist. Founding figure of Cultural Studies.
Timothy Snyder
American historian, Yale. Specializes in Eastern Europe, authoritarianism, genocide.
Viktor Papanek
Austrian-American designer and educator.
Walter Benjamin
German-Jewish philosopher and cultural critic.
Zeynep Tufekci
Turkish-American sociologist, Princeton. NYT columnist.