Technology, Culture, & Politics

How to Historicize Technological Modernity

Qiaoyu Cai is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of philosophy and history of computation, technology and geopolitics, critical media studies, global science fiction studies, and digital humanities. His current research focuses on the interconnected themes of modernity, sovereignty, and technology in the contemporary era of planetary-scale computation.

He is a TIAS (Tsinghua Institue for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences) Society of Fellow at Tsinghua University. He received his PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine), 1922