http://www.egs.edu/ Benjamin Bratton, American sociologist and theorist, talking about the subjectivity of the user in the contemporary technoscape, which he theorizes as “the stack.” The advent of the stack raises pertinent questions about sovereignty, the self, interaction, and geopolitics. Other topics addressed include industrial design, persona, the quantified self, dieting, the copernican trauma, and the post-anthropocene. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Benjamin Bratton.
Benjamin H. Bratton, born 1968, is an American theorist, sociologist and professor of visual arts, contemporary social and political theory, philosophy, and design.
Currently an associate professor at University of California, San Diego, Benjamin H. Bratton is also Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. Prior to his current position in San Diego, Benjamin H. Bratton was professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he co-founded the XLAB courses, with Hernan Diaz-Alonso. The XLAB courses put students into a laboratory setting where they were able to work comprehensively on robotics, scripting, biogenetics, genetic codification, and cellular systems. From 2003 through 2008, Bratton also taught in the University of California, Los Angeles.
As visiting lecturer, Benjamin H. Bratton has been invited to speak at Columbia University, Yale University, Pratt Institute, Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of California, Art Center College of Design, Parsons The New School for Design, University of Michigan, Brown University, The University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Bauhaus-University, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute for Higher Economics and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
