Chris Danta is professor of English in the newly formed School of Cybernetics at the ANU. His research operates at the intersection of literary theory, philosophy, science and theology. He is the author of Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is currently working on an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship with the title Future Fables: Literature, Evolution and Artificial Intelligence (2021-24).