Joseph Dumit is an anthropologist of passions, improvisation, brains, games, bodies, drugs and facts. His research and teaching ask how exactly we came to think, do and speak the way we do about ourselves and our world. He asks, what are the actual material ways in which we come to encounter facts, conspiracies, and things and take them to be relevant to our lives and our futures? He serves as Chair of Performance Studies, and is professor of Science & Technology Studies, and of Anthropology at University of California Davis. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans & Biomedical America (Princeton 2004), Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Duke 2012), and co-editor of Cyborgs & Citadels; Cyborg Babies; and Biomedicine as Culture. He drinks a lot of coffee. http://dumit.net