Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009) and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor.

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Shukaitis became interested in radical politics and art through the punk scene and spent several years putting out DIY albums and organizing shows. He moved to the NYC area to become more involved in the anti-globalization movement. He then become involved in a number of media projects, working with Rise Up Radio on WBAI, Ever Reviled Records, joining the Autonomedia editorial collective, and writing for a number of independent publications.

In 2004 Shukaitis moved to Amsterdam to edit the "Life Beyond the Market" issue of Greenpepper Magazine, subsequently deciding to move to the UK to pursue a PhD through research around issues of class composition, autonomy, and self-organization. In the years since then he has lived between New York and London, and currently coordinates an outpost of Autonomedia operations in the UK. He is the founder and editor of Minor Compositions, an imprint of Autonomedia.