Yuk Hui wrote his PhD thesis at Goldsmiths College under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020), and obtained his Habilitation in philosophy from Leuphana University in Germany. He has been teaching in various institutes including Goldsmiths College, Leuphana University, Bauhaus University, Chinese Academy of Art and currently City University of Hong Kong. Hui is a juror of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture since 2020, and convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology since 2014. Hui published in journals such as Research in Phenomenology , Philosophy Today , Metaphilosophy. He is author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China -An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016/2019), Recursivity and Contingency (2019) and forthcoming Art and Cosmotechnics (2021). His monographs have been highly endorsed by The Philosophical Quarterly , Radical Philosophy , Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie among others; and have been translated into a dozen languages.
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