T. J. Demos is professor of art history and visual culture at University of California, Santa Cruz, and is founder and director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and political ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg, 2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg, 2017), and most recently, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (Sternberg, 2023). He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019–2021).