The Media Arcane

Timon Beyes is Professor of Sociology of Organisation and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is also a director of Lüneburg's Centre for Digital Cultures. His publications include The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture, edited with Jörg Metelmann (Transcript Verlag, 2018); The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, edited with Robin Holt and Claus Pias (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); and Organize, with Lisa Conrad and Reinhold Martin (Meson Press, forthcoming).

Claus Pias is Professor of History and Epistemology of Media at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He is a director of Lüneburg's Centre for Digital Cultures and its Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation. His publications include the edited volume Cybernetics: The Macy-Conferences 1946–1953: The Complete Transactions (Diaphanes, 2015); Computer Game Worlds (Diaphanes, 2017); and The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, edited with Robin Holt and Timon Beyes (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).