Yuk Hui

He is author of several monographs including On the Existence of Digital Objects (prefaced by Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, March 2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China. An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic/MIT Press, 2016/2nd print 2019/3rd print 2023), Recursivity and Contingency (prefaced by Howard Caygill, Rowman & Littlefield International, January 2019), Art and Cosmotechnics (University of Minessota Press/e-flux, June 2021/2nd print 2022/3rd print 2023), Post-Europe (Sequence Press/Urbanomic, 2024), Machine and Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) and Kant Machine (Bloomsbury, 2026). Hui's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Portuguese, and have been reviewed and endorsed by academic journals such as The Philosophical Quarterly , Radical Philosophy , Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie , Theory Culture and Society , Issue in Science and Technology as well as popular newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , El País , Folha de Sao Paulo . He is the editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (Meson 2015), Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2021) and Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 Epistemological Reconstruction (Hanart, 2024) among many others. In 2024, he received the Certificate of Commendation of the Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities from the Saint Francis University (HK) for his “significant achievement in the study of philosophy and technology.” In 2025, the magazine ArtReview listed him as one of the 100 most influential figures shaping the contemporary art ( 40, Key Thinker of Art and Technology). Habilitation (Philosophy), Leuphana Univeristy Lüneburg PhD (Philosophy), MA, Goldsmiths College London B.ENG (Computer Engineering), University of Hong Kong Pensare la Contingenza. La rinascita della filosofia dopo la cibernetica , trans. Brunella Antomarini (Roma: Castelvecchi, April 2022); ISBN : 9788832907216 Edited Books Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 Epistemological Reconstruction, ed. Yuk Hui (Hong Kong: Hanart Press, Jan 2024) Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, ed. Yuk Hui, Pieter Lemmens (London: Routledge, May 2021) 30 Years after Les Immatériaux, ed. Yuk Hui, Andreas Broeckmann (Lüneburg: Meson Press, May 2015) Peer-reviewed Journal Articles The Standpoint of Heimatlosigkeit and the Planet, Philosophy Today , Vol. 70, No. 1 (forthcoming 2026) (A&HCI) Technodiversity, Political Form, and the Task of Planetary Thinking (interview by B. Norton), Theory Culture and Soviety , December 2025 (A&HCI) On the Imagination and the Infinite —A Critique of Artificial Imagination, Balken Journal of Philosophy , Vol.15, No.1 (June 2023) On the Soul of Technical Objects – Commentary on Simondon’s ‘Technics and Eschatology’ (1972)”, Theory, Culture and Society , Vol 35 no.6 (2018), 97-111 (SSCI/A&HCI) Reframing the Technosphere: Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler’s Anthropotechnological Diagnoses of the Anthropocene (with Pieter Lemmens), Krisis Journal for Contemporary Philosophy , 2017 Issue 2, 25-40. Apocalypse, Now! Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler on the Anthropocene (with Pieter Lemmens), Boundary 2 Online , Jan 2017 The Parallax of Individuation: Simondon and Schelling, Angelaki , Vol.21 No.4 (2016), 77-89 (A&HCI) Modulation after Control, New Formations , 84-85, Special Issue on Societies of Control, 2015, 74-91. Towards a Relational Materialism. A Reflection on Language, Relations and the Digital, Digital Culture and Society , No.1,ed. Ramón Reichert & Annika Richterich, October 2015, 131-147. Beyond Personalization and Anonymity: Towards a Group-Based Recommendation System, Shang Shang, Yuk Hui, Pan Hui, Sanjeev Kulkarni, and Paul Cuff, Proceeding of the ACM 29th Symposium on Applie