Antón Barba-Kay

Fellow

Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University

Antón is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. He was formerly an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University and Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College. In addition to his scholarly publications in nineteenth-century German philosophy, his essays about culture and technology have appeared in The New Republic, The Hedgehog Review, and The Point, among other magazines. A Web of Our Own Making–his book about what the internet is and what a difference it makes–was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. He earned B.A.’s at St. John’s College and the University of Cambridge, as well as a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

A Web of My Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation (a philosophical account—for general readership—of what the internet is and what a difference it makes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Noted Selected reviews:

The Web of Narcissus,” American Affairs 9.1 (2025): 194–212

“A Web of Our Own Making,” American Political Thought 14 (2025): 452–8

“A Web of Our Own Making,” Review of Metaphysics 77 (2024): 537–38

“Screens and Souls,” Contemporary Political Theory https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-024-00738-5

“This Irresistible Revolution,” The Point (https://thepointmag.com/criticism/this-irresistible-revolution/)

“Captive Users,” Commonweal https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/captive-users

“Clicks of Desire: How the Internet Obeys You,” The New Atlantis