I’m an endurance athlete, a heavy-music appreciator and a compulsive greeter of cats. Before I wrote “Lifehouse,” I was a bike messenger, a rock critic for SPIN in New York, a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, head of design direction at Nokia headquarters outside Helsinki, and a bunch of other things besides. Currently Visiting Professor at the Sociology department of the London School of Economics.

Agriculture is an ecstatic black metal band from Los Angeles.

Cassie Thornton is a post-institutional artist and transnational activist who creates safe spaces for the unknown, disobedience, and unexpected collectives.

Dianna Settles is a Vietnamese-American artist in Lexington, Kentucky who received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Her current work explores moments of joyful stillness amidst the cascading series of crises called modern life, accomplished through her synthesis of traditional Vietnamese and classical European painting styles.

Godofredo is an architectural researcher based in London, and an instructor at the Royal College of Art.

Susana is a researcher in philosophy, postwar histories of psychiatry, semiotics and social movements.