Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied Systems Design Engineering and Critical Theory, which she combines and mutates in her work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, and Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media —all published by MIT Press. She is currently a Guggenheim, ACLS and American Academy of Berlin Fellow and the Velux Visiting Professor of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School.