Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors
Interlocution is one of the structures that gives Xenopoem Conference its form. It creates a second movement in which the work continues after presentation. In this format, presentation is only the first appearance. The dialogue carries equal weight.
For that reason, interlocutor pairings are not disclosed to presenters in advance. This keeps the dialogue live and less governed by familiarity, expectation, or pre-negotiation. The aim is contact under pressure, where the work is carried further, tested, and set back into motion.
This year’s interlocutors bring a rare range of knowledge and modes of attention to that task, spanning literary theory, experimental writing, posthuman philosophy, neuroscience, molecular biology, editorial work, and more-than-human literature. Each has been invited because we believe they can meet the work with precision, force, and openness. We are proud to welcome them to Xenopoem Conference.
Andrew C. Wenaus
Andrew C. Wenaus is a literary theorist, poet, writer, and composer. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. His research engages experimental writing as a site for rethinking futurity, with particular attention to post-national cosmism, xenopoetics, and emerging theoretical models of communism.
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B. is the founder and chief editor of Posthuman Press. Their current project is a book on therolinguistics, gathering literature already being made from other species. They approach xenopoetics via truth by way of considering how best to make real a more-than-human encounter.
David Roden
David Roden’s research has addressed deconstruction and analytic philosophy, naturalism, sound and posthumanism. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge New York, 2014) explores the epistemological and ethical ramifications of Speculative Posthumanism: the thesis that there could be agents originating in human social-technical systems which become posthuman as a result of some technological alteration. He also writes experimental fiction and concept horror. His novella Snuff Memories was published by Schism[2] Press (2021). His new collection of fiction and theory fiction, Xenoerotics, was published in 2023 also by Schism[2]. His latest essay, ‘The Good, The Bad and the Grimdark: Why Technological Mastery Precludes Collective Self-Mastery’ is currently out in Technophany: a journal for philosophy and technology.
Germán Sierra
Germán Sierra is a writer, neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and a member of the Humanities Research Institute (iHUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Artifact (Inside the Castle, 2018), Interstitial Artelligence (in collaboration with Emanuel Magno; Centre for Experimental Ontology Press, 2022), and Zipf Maneuvers (in collaboration with Andrew C. Wenaus; Erratum Press, 2025) are among his more recent books.
Mikhail Fedorchenko
Mikhail Fedorchenko holds a PhD in Philosophy from the European University at Saint Petersburg. He is an independent researcher in philosophy of technology and AI, public lecturer, translator and an admin of the Machinic Embodiment and Post/work tg channels. His notable English-language works include Cyberbuddhist Accelerationism of GUNNM in XENOFUTURISM Magazine: Volume 2 Technologies of Domination, 2025, Emancipatory Technics and Transindividual Cybernetic Machines of Felix Guattari: Ecotechnopoiesis of Splicings in LA DELEUZIANA – ONLINE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 2023 and translation of Felix Guattari's play Pardemides in Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (2025)