Jonathan Beller

Jonathan Beller is Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and co-founder of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Beller is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, Film, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. His work explores the rise and role of images, screens and screen cultures in political economy, with an emphasis on concerns relevant to struggles against racial capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and heteropatriarchy. Through studies of cinema, painting, photography and computing, Beller has introduced key concepts for the critique of political economy including “attention economy,” “the attention theory of value,” “computational capital,” “the computational mode of production,” “computational colonialism,” “informatic labor,” and “economic media.”