Felix Stalder (b. 1968, Basel) is a media theorist and Professor for Digital Culture and Network Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where he has taught since 2003. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2001) and conducted postdoctoral research at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is a member of the World-Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group in Vienna, and has served as a moderator of nettime, the foundational critical mailing list for net culture, since 1998. His research addresses the cultural transformations brought about by digital networks, with a focus on commons-based production, datafication, algorithmic culture, and the changing conditions of subjectivity and sociality. His most influential book, Kultur der Digitalität (Suhrkamp, 2016; English: The Digital Condition, Polity Press, 2018), argues that referentiality, communality, and algorithmicity are the defining cultural forms of the present. He led the Swiss National Science Foundation–funded research project “Creating Commons” (2017–2020) at ZHdK, exploring the cultural relevance of artistic commons practices. He lives and works in Vienna and Zurich.

Selected Bibliography
Stalder, Felix. Kultur der Digitalität. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016. English: The Digital Condition. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Stalder, Felix. Digital Solidarity. London/Lüneburg: Mute Books / Post-Media Lab, 2013.
Stalder, Felix. Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.
Sollfrank, Cornelia, Shusha Niederberger, and Felix Stalder, eds. Aesthetics of the Commons. Zürich: Diaphanes, 2021.
Becker, Konrad, and Felix Stalder, eds. Digital Unconscious: Nervous Systems and Uncanny Predictions. New York: Autonomedia, 2021.