Dr Martineau teaches philosophy and social theory at Concordia’s Liberal Arts College. His research focuses on time and temporality, technology, and critical social theory. He recently published Le capital algorithmique. Accumulation, pouvoir et résistance à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle (with Jonathan Durand Folco, Écosociété), Time, Capitalism and Alienation (Brill), as well as several research articles and translations.

Martin is passionate about issues at the intersection of digital technologies and the environment. Since 2020, he has been leading the work on the 'digital challenge' of Chemins de transition, an initiative by the University of Montreal that examines the consequences of the environmental degradation on Québec society. His current research interests revolve around the role of digital technologies in the transition to a post-capitalist society.

lê is an antidisciplinary artist born to refugees in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang on unceded and contested land to the Kanien’kehá:ka and Anishinaabe Nations. Their research-creation centers deconstruction, decolonial theory, critical phenomenology and French philosophy. They are concerned about algorithms as a discrete and hyper-immediate temporality that fundamentally undermines difference, memory, history as the movement of thought, and agency, thereby exalting the neoliberal christo-settler-colonial aporia of linear time.  

lê’s thesis problematizes the arkhé (beginning-commandment) of algorithmic archiving technologies for the ways that they coproduce the event they record by adjudicating in advance its structure, form and content, therein signifying how we relate and experience the very futurity it has ordained.

Daisy Moriyama (she/her) is an MA Candidate in Philosophy at Concordia University. Her academic interests include critical theory, feminist theory, anti-colonial theory, and phenomenological approaches to time. Her writing draws from themes of history, memory and intergenerational trauma, and has been published in Belief: An Anthology of Asian Diaspora Writers (2020), and Rice Paper Magazine (2018). Her current research focuses on affectivity, performativity, liminality, and temporality in the work of Sylvia Wynter.

Giuliana’s academic interests include Marxian Political Economy, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Brazilian Social and Political Thought, and Heterodox approaches in Development. Her Master’s research conducts a comprehensive literature review on the supposed return of feudal relations in the political economy of ‘digital’ capitalism. She then engages in a critique of these ideas based on a reading of 'North by South'. It draws on Brazil’s colonial, underdeveloped, and emerging background in order to shed light on the blind spots of today’s new wave of technological transformations, which renewed global inequalities and introduced new forms of combination in line with the necessities of capital’s reproduction on an expanded scale.

Mathieu Lajante specializes in emotional processes at the organizational frontline using social and affective neuroscience concepts and methods. Leading psychophysiological research at the emoLab - a social neuroscience-based research platform - Mathieu Lajante investigates how AI-based technologies, such as service robots, disrupt emotional connections (e.g., empathy) between service users and service providers. He is also interested in how service technologies turn consumers into "prosumers," leading them to work for the service providers using emotional labor strategies.  

Mathieu Lajante published several papers in marketing journals (e.g., Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services; Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services), psychology journals (e.g., Frontiers in Psychology; Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics), and human-computer interactions journals (e.g., Computers in Human Behavior). He is the author of the book “Les émotions en persuasion publicitaire: Une approche neuroscientifique” (Vuibert, 2015).

Jérémi’s research focuses on the regulation of emerging technologies and their use in government bodies. His undergraduate thesis problematized the self-regulation stance of Quebec legislators on automated decision systems in public agencies. But his academic interests include épistémologie, critical theory, and phenomenology.

Renata's academic interests center on labor, digital technologies, and critical social theory. They aim to cultivate a deeper understanding of these topics and concretise their research focus partially by collaborating with fellow members of the research center.

With an extensive background in applied research within the tech and environmental sectors, Nicolas is bridging his expertise towards the realm of the humanities. In the short term, he strives to further develop his knowledge of the intersections between tech, social injustice, and critical theory, whilst paying particular attention to the development of modern history through philosophical and theoretical frameworks. These include but are not limited to: Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism, and post-structuralism. In the long term, Nicolas wants to pursue postgraduate studies, hopefully combining sociology and philosophy. His primary goal is as follows: to understand, evaluate, and deconstruct today’s oppressive systems of power.

Diego's academic interests are varied and inconcise. Having yet to begin an attempt at writing his Honour's thesis for the Liberal Arts College, he has not yet had the occasion to clearly identify those which matter most to him, and to focus them into a protracted research project. However, presently there are at least two points of interest which return to his thinking more often than others. They appear in broad strokes and they are the following: marxist critical theory and history of philosophy. Diego hopes to acquire a deeper understanding of these interests with his engagement in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Time, Technology and Capitalism.

Park's research interests lie in social justice, gender studies, surveillance capitalism and Marxism. Her thesis investigates how gender roles can aggravate gender pay gap with a case study of South Korea in 2019, using the Marxist perspective on time. To demonstrate the impact of gender roles on temporality, the thesis uses the data from Korean Time Use survey and Korean gender pay gap report to calculate unpaid domestic and aesthetic labour of both female and male genders.

Frédéric D. Gagnon is a prospective Honours student at the Liberal Arts College, and a graduating BFA student in studio art at Concordia University. His academic interests are continental philosophy, aesthetics, and art history. His thesis studies the temporality of cultural forms of historical periodization such as modernity, post-modernity and the contemporary in relation with social time and art history. More specifically, it focuses on the category of contemporary art as emerging within art history from transformations of historical and social time, and on how these transformations shape its temporality and modes of historicity. Along with his academic career and interests, Frédéric works as a cultural worker at Parc-Offsite Eli Kher gallery, and is an emerging artist whose studio practice intersects and interrogates post-medium and postconceptual conditions.