Dr. Rick Dolphijn is an associate professor at Humanities, Utrecht University. . He published widely on continental philosophy (Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres) and the contemporary arts. He studies posthumanism, new materialism, material culture (food studies), and ecology. Rick Dolphijn is an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2026) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona (2019/2020). His books include Foodscapes  (Eburon/University of Chicago Press 2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (Open Humanities Press 2012, with Iris van der Tuin).  He edited This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (2014/5), Philosophy after Nature (2017), Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (2020), and Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism (2022). His monography, The Philosophy of Matter: a Meditation, appeared with Bloomsbury Academic in 2021, and was published as a trade book in Dutch (Filosofie van de Materie, Noordboek) in 2022, and Korean in 2023.