Research Interests
My work engages media studies and theories of accumulation within the Marxist intellectual tradition to examine regimes of accumulation as a periodizing and historical analytic. Specifically, I am interested in the processes and practices of 'digital accumulation' in 21st century media cultures. Current research preoccupations center around the structural role mobile phones occupy in advanced industrial economies, digital labor and the information commodity, and how mobile media modify narrative and aesthetic production.
Areas of Interest:
Aesthetic theories of modernity, photography, technical images, the history of the image, cultural techniques, critical theory, the documentary form, cognitive capitalism, information economies, the aesthetics of everyday life in mobile media cultures, critical internet studies, Western Marxism, representations of environment, and the aesthetics of process and accumulation in 19th, 20th, and 21st century photography and film