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.
- "Protocol", Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3): "Problematizing Global Knowledge", 2006, pp 317-320.
- "Language wants to be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology", Journal of Visual Culture 5(3), 2006, pp 315-331.
- "What is New Media? Ten Years After 'The Language of New Media'", Criticism 53:3, 2011, pp 377-384.
- "The Poverty of Philosophy: Realism and Post-Fordism", Critical Inquiry 39:2, 2013, pp 347-366.
- "Jodi’s Infrastructure", e-flux Journal 74, Jun 2016.
- "History Is What Hurts: On Old Materialism", Social Text 34:2, 2016, pp 125-141.
- co-author, "A Questionnaire on Materialisms", October 155:1, 2016, pp 45-47.
- "21 Paragraphs on Badiou", e-flux Journal 89, Mar 2018.
- "Mathification", Diacritics 47:1, 2019, pp 96-115.
- Interviews and talks (selection)
- Stefan Hechenberger, "Interview with Alex Galloway", Switch 19:1, San José State University, Summer 2004.
- Leper Creativity, panel discussion with Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker, The New School, Mar 2011. Video.
- Links