Irven M. Resnick is Professor and Chair of Excellence in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Louisiana State University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Luke White is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and Fine Art at Middlesex University, London, and his books include Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films (2020).

Kim Dhillon is an essayist, poet and art theorist who teaches critical theory and curating at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She lives on the unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Verity Wilson worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for 25 years. She is the author of Chinese Dress (1986) and Chinese Textiles (2004), and lives in Oxford.

Rik Smits is a linguist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include The Puzzle of Left-handedness (Reaktion, 2011) and Dawn: The Origins of Language and the Modern Human Mind (2016).

Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and Professor Emeritus in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. He co-founded Worktech with Philip Ross in 2003 and in 2016 they created the Worktech Academy, an online knowledge platform and network on the future of work and the workplace.

Philip Ross is a futurist, commentator and advisor specializing on the impact of emerging technology on people and their ways of working. He founded Worktech in 2003 with Jeremy Myerson and in 2016 they created the Worktech Academy, an online knowledge platform and network on the future of work and the workplace.

Alex Harvey is a producer and director of programmes including Panorama and The Late Show for the BBC. His later films include The Lives of Animals (2002) and Enter the Jungle (2014). Based in Los Angeles, he regularly writes on literature, film and music for London Review of Books and LA Review of Books.

Ritchie Robertson is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His books include Friedrich Nietzsche (Reaktion Books, 2022) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024).