Alexander R. Galloway
Born 1974. Author and associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He has a Bachelors Degree in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (1996), and a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University in 2001. Galloway's research interests include media theory and contemporary philosophy. Galloway is also a programmer and artist. He is a founding member of the Radical Software Group (RSG), and his art projects include Carnivore, a networked surveillance tool based on the FBI software of the same name (won a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 2002), and Kriegspiel, based on a war game designed by Guy Debord. He worked at Rhizome.org from 1996 to 2002. Besides writing several books, he co-translated Tiqqun: Introduction to Civil War to English. Lives in New York City.
- Monographs
- Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, MIT Press, 2003, ARG.
- Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- with Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
- French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures, The Public School New York/Erudio Editions, 2011.
- The Interface Effect, Polity Press, 2012.
- with Eugene Thacker and McKenzie Wark, Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Laruelle: Against the Digital, University of Minnesota Press, 2014. [1]
- Articles
- 'Warcraft and Utopia', Ctheory Feb. 2006, [HTML].
- 'Protocol', Theory, Culture & Society: Special Issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge, 23:2-3 2006, 317-320.
- 'Language wants to be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology', Journal of Visual Culture 5:3 2006, 315-331.
- 'What is New Media? Ten Years After 'The Language of New Media', Criticism 53:3 2011, 377-384.
- 'The Poverty of Philosophy: Realism and Post-Fordism', Critical Inquiry 39:2, 2013, 347-366.
- 'Jodi’s Infrastructure', e-flux Journal 74: June 2016.
- 'History Is What Hurts: On Old Materialism', Social Text 34:2 (127) (2016): 125-141.
- 'A Questionnaire on Materialisms', October 155:1 2016, 45-7.
- '21 Paragraphs on Badiou', e-flux Journal 89: March 2018.
- 'Mathification', Diacritics 47:1, 2019 96-115.
- Interviews and talks (selection)
- Stefan Hechenberger, "Interview with Alex Galloway", Switch 19:1, Summer 2004. CADRE Laboratory, San José State University. (archived)
- Leper Creativity, panel discussion with Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker, The New School, Mar 2011.
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