Benjamin H. Bratton is a sociological, media, and design theorist.

Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and Director of the Design Policy Program at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, an interdisciplinary research institute in advanced ICT including supercomputing applications, cloud architectures, nanoengineering, and large data set visualization.

He is the former Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo!, and taught at UCLA and SCI_Arc (The Southern California Institute of Architecture) for many years.

His work sits at the intersections of contemporary social & political theory, computational media & infrastructure, and architectural and urban design problems & methodologies. Current research interests include: the philosophical problematics of interfaciality, digital urbanism & networked architecture, the rhetorics of exceptional violence, contemporary continential philosophy & aesthetic theory, institutional technology transfer protocols and platforms, design research management & methodologies, classical & contemporary sociological theory, the history of social sciences, the history of science and technology, and interaction & interface design.

Among his most recent writings, "The Logisitics of Habitable Circulation," Bratton's introduction to the new edition of Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics was recently published by Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. Suspicious Images/ Latent Images (with Natalie Jeremijenko) is available for download and purchase from Situated Technologies dot net. "IPhone City" in the Digital Urbanism issue of AD: Architectural Design.

Bratton has published widely, from AD and Volume to HCI:Interactions and Theory, Culture and Society, and has been an visiting lecturer and critic at Columbia, Pratt, Yale, Architectural Association of London, Penn, USC, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Brown, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, among many others.

He was also co-chair of ambient:interface, the 54th (and final) International Aspen Design Conference. This venerable institution was run by for many years by Reyner Banham, among others, and closed with the theme for our third machine age: 'all design is interface design'

email: benjamin (at) bratton.info