尼古拉斯·伯瑞奥德，法国策展人和艺术批评家。从1996 年至2006 年，他是当代艺术空间巴黎东京宫的联合总监。他曾是当代艺术杂志Documents sur l'art 的创办者和负责人，也是2009 年第四届泰特三年展的策展人。2011年12月起，担任巴黎高等美术学院院长。

尼克·克罗斯利（Nick Crossley），英国曼彻斯特大学社会学教授，讲授“流行音乐社会学”“身体与社会”“社会学方法论”“社会网络分析”等课程，曾任社会学系主任，就众多社会学论题著书立说。近期论著涉及音乐世界、音乐社会学、社会网络分析、关系社会学，同时关注复杂理论在真实世界中的应用。发表学术论文70余篇，著有《声响、样式和颠覆之网：利物浦、伦敦、曼彻斯特和谢菲尔德的朋克和后朋克世界，1975-1980》（2015）、《理解社会运动》（2002）等。 刘军，博士，西安交通大学社会学系教授、博士生导师。研究方向为关系社会学、社会学方法论。出版专著《法村社会支持网络》（2006）、《整体网分析》（2014）、译著《两种传承：社会科学中的定性与定量研究》（2016）、《社会网络分析手册》（2018）等著作10余部，学术论文近50篇。近期研究富含“意义”...(展开全部)

Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations. Crossley asserts that relations are lived trajectories of iterated interaction, built up through a history of interaction, but also entailing anticipation of future interaction. In addition, he demonstrates how networks comprise multiple dyadic relations which are mutually tra...(展开全部)

Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patrick Jagoda is professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and executive editor of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of Network Aesthetics, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coauthor of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer.

The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the au...(展开全部)

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their worl...(展开全部)

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and ...(展开全部)

Handling inherent uncertainty and exploiting compositional structure are fundamental to understanding and designing large-scale systems. Statistical relational learning builds on ideas from probability theory and statistics to address uncertainty while incorporating tools from logic, databases and programming languages to represent structure. In Introduction to Statistical Rela...(展开全部)

Handling inherent uncertainty and exploiting compositional structure are fundamental to understanding and designing large-scale systems. Statistical relational learning builds on ideas from probability theory and statistics to address uncertainty while incorporating tools from logic, databases and programming languages to represent structure. In Introduction to Statistical Rela...(展开全部)