Timothy Erik Ström

Timothy Erik Ström is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia who uses political and philosophical approaches to research the overlapping realms of technology, ecology and capitalism. Tim is an editor at the radical publishing cooperative Arena and is the author of 'Globalization and Surveillance', and his writings have been published in many journals and publications. His forth coming book, 'Cybernetic Capitalism' will be published by Verso.

Qualifications

  • PhD, 2018, Western Sydney University

Research Focus

  • Critical Theory
  • Political Economy
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Ecological Studies
  • Cultural Geography

Selected Publications

Ström, TE (forthcoming), Cybernetic Capitalism, Verso, London.

Ström, TE 2024, 'Los Alamos to Neuralink', Arena, no. 17, pp. 60-71.

Ström, TE & James, P 2023, 'Objects of the Anthropocene: Mapping Material-Emotional Culture from Human Beginnings to the End Times', Emotions: History, Culture, Society, special edition edited by S Trigg & A Welch.

Ström, TE 2022, 'Capital and Cybernetic', New Left Review, May/June, no. 135, pp. 23-41.

Ström, TE 2022, 'Data Mining on the Crawl Frontier: Metaphor in Cybernetic Capitalism', Law Text Culture.

Ström, TE 2021, 'Cybernetic Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics', Arena, no. 6.

Ström, TE 2020, Globalization and Surveillance, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham.

Ström, TE 2020, 'Journey to the Centre of the World: Google Maps and the Abstraction of Cybernetic Capitalism', cultural geographies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 561-579.

Ström, TE 2020, 'Abstracting Money: Cryptocurrencies, Cybernetics and Contradictions', Australian Humanities Review, May, issue 66, pp. 188-95.

Ström, TE 2019, 'Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cyber-Capitalism according to Google’s Ideologues', in Revisiting the Global Imaginary: Theories, ideologies, subjectivities, ed. by C Hudson, Palgrave Macmillan.


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