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'''Maxigas''' is an anargeek and senior lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Amsterdam. He uses media ethnography and digital methods to explore infrastructural ideologies and the materiality of the digital. His research on hacking, cybernetics, and old social media has been published in academic journals including ''Social Studies of Science'' and ''Internet Policy Review''.  
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'''Maxigas''' is Assistant Professor of Computational Methods for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and co-Principal Investigator with the [https://www.criticalinfralab.net/ 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''. [https://www.criticalinfralab.net/ (2025)]
  
 
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* with Johan Söderberg, ''Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking'', forew. Richard Barbrook, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/ Publisher].
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* ''[https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13466.001.0001 Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking]'' (with [[Johan Söderberg]]), forew. [[Richard Barbrook]], MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp, [[Media:Soederberg Johan_Maxigas_Resistance_to_The_Current_The_Dialectics_of_Hacking 2022.pdf|PDF]]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/ Publisher].
  
 
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* [https://www.uu.nl/staff/PDunajcsik Profile on Utrecht U]
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* [https://www.criticalinfralab.net/ critical infrastructure lab]
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120106174341/http://maxigas.hu/ Website] (archived)
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120106174341/http://maxigas.hu/ Website] (archived)
* http://web.archive.org/web/20140914013313/relay70.metatron.ai/author/maxigas.html
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20140914013313/relay70.metatron.ai/author/maxigas.html Website] (archived)
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* [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5000-1787 ORCID]
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Latest revision as of 11:08, 11 April 2025

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)

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