Gerald Moore

Professor Gerald Moore is Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and professor of French philosophy and digital studies in the School of Modern Languages and Culture at Durham University, UK. Gerald’s background is in continental political philosophy, with a particular focus on how contemporary politics is shaped by the interactions of technology and biology. He was a lead author on Bifurcate! There Is No Alternative (Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Collective, Open Humanities Press, 2021) and has co-edited three other volumes on and around the work of the philosopher of technology, Bernard Stiegler (‘The Truth of Stiegler’, Philosophy Today, 2024, ‘Entropies’, Technophany, 2024, and Stiegler and Technics, Edinburgh, 2013), in addition to a monograph (Politics of the Gift, Edinburgh, 2011). He has previously co-led an EU-funded grant on the impact of technological automation on human flourishing (Real Smart Cities, 2017-22), served as chair of the Collège Scientifique et Industriel of the late Bernard Stiegler’s Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation, and been a director of the think tank AAGT-Ars Industrialis (now Épokhè). A major theme in his work has focused on how technologies and their social organisation reinvent but also place stress on the products of evolutionary history, transforming our lived experience in ways that are often under-acknowledged. Gerald is the humanities lead for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and he co-convenes the thematic programme on Generativity.