Yuk HUI (Prof. Dr. phil. habil.) is Full Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Hui studied computer engineering at the University of Hong Kong and philosophy at Goldsmiths College in London where he wrote his doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). He obtained his Habilitation (venia legendi in philosophy, specialising in the question of technology) from the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He has been professor at the City University of Hong Kong as well as visiting professors at the University of Tokyo, China Academy of Art and Strelka Institute Moscow. 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 on philosophy and technology in periodicals such as Research in Phenomenology, Philosophy Today, Metaphilosophy, Theory Culture and Society, Angelaki, Parrhesia, Cahiers Simondon, Deleuze Studies, Derrida Today, Techné, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Implications Philosophiques, Krisis, Intellectica. He is series editor of “Philosophy of Media and Technology” of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press and the founding editor of Technophany- A Journal for Philosophy and Technology (Radboud University Press). He is co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (Meson, 2015) and Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2021), and editor of Philosophy after Automation (Philosophy Today, Vol.64 No.2, 2021), Cybernetics for the 21st Century (Hanart Press, 2024) among others.
Hui is author of several monographs including On the Existence of Digital Objects (prefaced by Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, 2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China -An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2016), Recursivity and Contingency (R&LI, 2019), Art and Cosmotechnics (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Post-Europe (Sequence/Urbanomic, 2024) and Machine and Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) . His books have been reviewed and endorsed by academic journals such as The Philosophical Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Theory Culture and Society, Issue in Science and Technology, as well as newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Folha de Sao Paulo; and have been translated into a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Portuguese.
Yuk Hui was awarded the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2023) by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council; and received the Certificate of Commendation of the Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities (2024) from the Saint Francis University for his “significant achievement in the study of philosophy and technology.”