Lenart Skof is professor of philosophy and religious studies and Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre (Koper, Slovenia). He is an author of several books, among them God in Post-Christianity: An Elemental Philosophical Theology (SUNY Press, 2024) and Antigone's Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021). He authored and edited several works on the topic of respiratory thinking, air and breathing, among them Atmospheres of Breathing (ed. by L. Skof and P. Berndtson, SUNY Press, 2018), Ethik des Atems (Herder/Karl Alber, 2017), Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and Peace (Dordrecht: Springer, 2015), and Breathing with Luce Irigaray (ed. by L. Skof and E.

Holmes, Bloomsbury, 2013). He is editor-in-chief of "Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing" series (with Magdalena Górska) and his main research interests are in respiratory philosophy, new elemental philosophy, and philosophical theology. Magdalena Górska is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Gender Programme and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University. She is the author of Breathing Matters: Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability (2016), founder of the Breathing Matters Network, and co-editor (with Lenart Skof) of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series. She is currently a principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times and has launched RESPIRATORIUM, a collaborative research hub for Critical Respiratory Studies developed as part of this project.