Fernando Domínguez Rubio (graduated in sociology from Cambridge University in 2008) lectures in Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His work ranges from sociology, science and technology studies, and anthropology to design and architecture. He is the author of "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (University of Chicago Press, 2020). In 2021 he won the Mary Douglas prize awarded by the American Sociological Association and the Annual Book Award of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). He also co-edited "The Politics of Knowledge" (Routledge 2012) and "Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair" (MIT Press, 2025).