Benjamin H. Bratton

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Benjamin H. Bratton
Born 1968
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Design theorist
Nationality American
Website
www.bratton.info

Benjamin H. Bratton is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics think-tank at Calit2, The California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. He is an American sociologist, architectural and design theorist, known for a mix of philosophical and aesthetic research, organizational planning and strategy, and for his writing on the cultural implications of computing and globalization.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

Bratton was born in Los Angeles, California in 1968,[8] and holds a PhD. in the Sociology of Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before moving to University of California, San Diego, Bratton taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles from 2001–10, where he taught in the XLab program with digital architect, Hernan Diaz Alonso. He taught in the Department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA from 2003-2008. He was previously Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo!. He has also worked with Imaginary Forces, and Razorfish, among others.

Publications

Among his most recent work, his article "On Geoscapes & Google Caliphate: Except #Mumbai"[9] examines the correspondence of political theology and planetary computation as modes of political geography. His lecture, "Surviving the Interface: the Envelopes, Membranes and Borders of Deep Cosmopolitics"[10] considers the emergence of new forms of sovereignty derived from shared digital and urban infrastructures, and the challenges they pose to conventional understandings of architectural partitions and national borders. In his article, "iPhone City (v.2005)"[11] Bratton was early to demonstrate the impact that cinematic user interfaces for mobile social media would have on urban design.

His current work develops a political theory of planetary-scale computation and draws from disparate sources, from Paul Virilio, Michel Serres, and Carl Schmitt, to Alan Turing, Google Earth, and IPv6.

References

  1. ↑ Hill, Dan. "Postopolis! LA".
  2. ↑ "Mobility Shifts Summit".
  3. ↑ "Thresholds Studio Lecture Speaker Bio". Tabuman College at University of Michigan.
  4. ↑ "Benjamin Bratton". bracket-.
  5. ↑ "Urban Technology on the Dark Side". SXSW.
  6. ↑ "Future City". Little Tokyo Design Week.
  7. ↑ "Design and Existential Risk". Parsons The New School for Design.
  8. ↑ Bratton, Benjamin. "BRATTON.INFO". Official Website.
  9. ↑ Theory, Culture and Society, 26, no. 7-8 (2009): 329-342
  10. ↑ Bratton, Benjamin. "Surviving the Interface: the Envelopes, Membranes and Borders of Deep Cosmopolitics". Official Website. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  11. ↑ Architectural Design, v79 n4 (200907): 90-97

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