Anna Greenspan

Anna Greenspan is Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is also a Director of NYU Shanghai's Center of AI and Culture. Her research focuses on urban futures and emerging media. Anna teaches courses in media theory, philosophy of technology and urban studies in the program for Interactive Media Arts. She also co-teaches “Global Perspectives on Society“ as part of the NYU Shanghai’s core curriculum. Anna holds a PhD in Continental philosophy from Warwick University, UK. While at Warwick, Anna was a founding member of the Cybernetic culture research unit (ccru).  Anna was the cofounder of the Shanghai Studies Society and ran a digital humanities project on street food. Anna is also a founding member of the research hub Hacked Matter, which is dedicated to investigating the process of technological innovation in China.  Anna’s book Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her latest monograph China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy was published in the Technicites series with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Together with Bogna Konior and Benjamin Bratton, she is the editor of Machine Decision is not Final: China, and the History and Future of AI (Urbanomic, 2025). She is currently researching global gardens for a project on the ‘Nature of Artifice’.

Email: annagreenspan@gmail.com or ag158@nyu.edu