Miriam Rasch is a philosopher and essayist affiliated with the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She studied literary studies and philosophy and writes about ethics, technology and literature for NRC Handelsblad and De Nederlandse Boekengids, among others, and has a monthly column in Filosofie Magazine. Her book Friction. Ethics in Times of Dataism (De Bezige Bij, 2020) won the Socrates Cup for the best Dutch-language philosophy book. In 2022, the pamphlet Autonomy, a self-help guide, was published in the Nieuw Licht series. Her latest book is Listening Exercises. About Attention and Receptivity (De Bezige Bij, 2024), about the ethics of listening in times of polarization and overstimulation.