Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. He is the Editor-in-Chief (with Xudong Zhu) of The Beijing International Review of Education https://brill.com/view/journals/bire/bire-overview.xml and Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rept20. His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy, and he is the author of over 100 books. He has recently published The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), Wittgenstein: Anti-foundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of Education (2020), Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality (2021), Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation (2021), The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing (2021), and is working on a book about civilizational cultures in a multipolar international system. Petar Jandric is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Petar's research interests are at the postdisciplinary intersections between technologies, pedagogies, and the society, and research methodologies of his choice are inter-, trans-, and antidisciplinarity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Postdigital Science and Education journal https://www.springer.com/journal/42438 and book series https://www.springer.com/series/16439. His recent books include Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology (2020), Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence (2020), and The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing (2021). Personal website: http://petarjandric.com/.Sarah Hayes is Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Education Observatory at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Previously Sarah worked at Aston University, where she led programmes in Education and Sociology and is now an Honorary Professor. Sarah has also taught at the University of Worcester, at international partner institutions, and has led a range of research projects. Sarah's research spans sociology, education and policy, technological and social change and she has published in a variety of related journals. Her recent books include The Labour of Words in Higher Education: Is it Time to Reoccupy Policy? (2019) and Postdigital Positionality: Developing Powerful Inclusive Narratives for Learning, Teaching, Research and Policy in Higher Education (2021). Sarah is an Associate Editor for Postdigital Science and Education (Springer). Personal website: https://researchers.wlv.ac.uk/sarah.hayes.