Bio
R. Joshua Scannell is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the New School’s School of Media Studies. He is interested in understanding how changing digital technologies transform the relationship between the body and its environment, and how these transformations are harnessed to racial and sexual techniques of organizing populations for political and economic exploitation. His recent work triangulates media theory – particularly concerning “new” media and digital technologies, scholarship in the Black Radical Tradition, and contemporary philosophical movements like New Materialist Feminism and Speculative Realism – to make sense of how the ubiquity of digitally-driven surveillance and prediction technologies transform the carceral state’s racial-sexual-labor structures of expropriation and management into technocratic “best practice” for governance of self and others. His recent writing has appeared in boundary 2, Real Life Magazine, Captivating Technology, and Object Oriented Feminism.