Jonathan Beller

Jonathan Beller is professor of humanities and media studies and cofounder of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, Film and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; Visiting Professor at REMESO / Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, Linköping University, Sweden; and Visiting Researcher, University of the Arts, Helsinki Research Institute, Finland. His books include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (2006), Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media System (2006), The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital (2017), and The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (2021). He currently serves as co-editor of Social Text for the ST editorial collective. Research interests include screen cultures, computation, racism, imperialism, colonization, Marxist, critical race and gender theory, cultures of resistance.