Media ecologist Christian Hänggi received his PhD from the European Graduate School and is currently pursuing a doctorate in American literature at the University of Basel. He lectures from time to time at the Autonomous School Zurich, at Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok, and at the University of Basel. He is president of the Zurich-based anti-billboard group IG Plakat | Raum | Gesellschaft and author of Hospitality in the Age of Media Representation (Atropos Press, 2009).