Department of Modern Culture and Media
Lachlan Kermode
Research Interests
Lachlan's research aims to understand, evaluate, and reimagine the role that computers play in society. Drawing on philosophy, history, and literary theory, he studies the materiality of computing by critically examining its political economy, the product
Year Entered
2021
Biography
Lachlan Kermode is a doctoral candidate at Brown University (Ph.D. Modern Culture and Media, Sc.M. Computer Science). For the 26-27 academic year, he is a visiting fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (Fall) and a junior fellow in Technopolitics and European Democracy at the Remarque Institute, NYU (Spring). He has worked with Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London, LIMINAL Lab at the University of Bologna, the Digital Theory Lab at NYU, and the Cognitive Engineering Lab at Brown University.