Joanna Zylinska
Media academic at Goldsmiths in the UK
Joanna Zylinska (born Joanna Żylińska, 5 May 1971) is a British writer, researcher and artist. She is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King's College London. Prior to Joining King's in September 2021 she was Professor of New Media and Communications, and in 2017–2020, Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2017 she proposed a “feminist counter-apocalypse” as an alternative to the dangers of the "Exit of Man", Artificial Intelligence and Populism.
Life
Zylinska was born in 1971. She was brought up in Poland and moved to the UK during her graduate studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wrocław. She was a lecturer there. She is interested in new media and art and particularly the effects of emerging technology.
Zylinska's work engages with stories of our human collapse as a civilization and as a species.
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