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]

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.

Links

• Home page
• Profile at NYU
• Profile at Rhizome