Jonathan Beller is Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and co-founder of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Recently, he held the titles of Visiting Professor at REMESO / Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society, Linköping University, Sweden, and Visiting Researcher at the University of the Arts, Helsinki Research Institute, Finland.
His books include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Dartmouth UP, 2006), Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media System (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2006), The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital (Pluto Press, 2017), and The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021). He is currently working on two book projects: Economic Media and Collateral Genocide.
Beller serves as co-editor of the international political journal Social Text.
