Dr. Conor Spence is a researcher specialising in the critical philosophy of technology, digital cultures, and speculative realism. His work investigates the ontological and socio-technical dimensions of emerging technologies, including Large Language Models, cryptocurrencies, and wearable biosensors like the Freestyle Libre 2. Dr. Spence’s research — rooted in Deleuze, Guattari, Negerastani, and Simondon — explores techno-capitalist society through concepts such as "necromantic media," emergent objects, and “thanopoiesis”. He holds a PhD and MPhil, with his doctoral thesis, "Emergence and Differentiation: Reconceptualising the Digital Object," developing a new process-ontology of digital objects. His published work includes analysis in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology.