Maxigas

Maxigas is Assistant Professor of Computational Methods for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and co-Principal Investigator with the critical infrastructure lab. He is interested in hacker culture, cybernetic ideologies, infrastructural imaginaries, and the materiality of the digital. He uses media ethnography and digital methods to answer philosophical questions about contemporary social conflicts. With a thoroughly interdisciplinary background in the social sciences and humanities, a decade long industry experience in it, and a history of media activist practice, he brings a theoretically sophisticated, technologically grounded, politically savvy perspective to debates on media and culture. His papers have been published in leading journals in science and technology studies as well as media studies, from the social studies in science, through the journal of peer production, to most recently in the Internet Policy Review. (2025)

Publications

• Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking (with Johan Söderberg), forew. Richard Barbrook, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp, PDF. Publisher.

Links

• Profile on Utrecht U
• critical infrastructure lab
• Website (archived)
• Website (archived)
• ORCID