Department of Modern Culture and Media

Lachlan Kermode is a PhD student in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown, and a Research Fellow at the research agency Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London). After receiving an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Princeton University (2018), he worked for several years as a software researcher at Forensic Architecture, and then as a software engineer building cloud infrastructure for machine learning models. His current work is concerned with the history of computer science and software engineering as disciplinary practices, 20th century mathematics, and the critique of political economy.