Vassilis Galanos is Lecturer in Digital Work based at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling. Vassilis investigates the interwoven histories and sociologies of artificial intelligence and the internet, with a particular focus on the negotiation dynamics of expectations and expertise shaping these fields. Vassilis serves as Associate Editor of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and has published widely on a variety of subjects including science and technology studies, philosophy, media studies, and education. Vassilis’s parallel journey into the world of religious studies began after being nominated Pope of Discordianism by another academic Discordian scholar. Vassilis later became nominated twice Reverend within the Church of the SubGenius and has presented elements of an unpublished scholarly work about the Church at the European Association for the Study of Religion 2019 conference, titled “How to Kill a Joke and a Saviour by Explaining Them Cybernetically: Liquefaction of Humouristic Ritual and Ritualistic Humour in the Assassination of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs.”
