José Antonio Magalhães is a writer and academic from Brazil. They hold a PhD in legal theory from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and are currently a research fellow at ICI-Berlin. Magalhães’s research works at the interfaces between speculative juridico-political theory, technology, and ecology. Their broader project draws on modified readings of legal thinkers Hans Kelsen, Evgeny Pashukanis, and Carl Schmitt toward a heuristic for mapping and navigating not only non-modern, but also non-human (technological, ecological, spiritual) juridico-political orders. Some of their recent publications are ‘Platforms as Law: A Speculative Theory of Coded, Interfacial and Environmental Norms’ in the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL) and ‘Platforming and Perspectivism’ published through the Singapore Biennale. They also teach various para-academic courses and workshops in institutions such as The New Centre for Research & Practice and Foreign Objekt.