Benjamin H. Bratton

Benjamin H. Bratton (born 1968) is an American sociologist, architectural and design theorist, known for a mix of philosophical and aesthetic research, organizational planning and strategy, and for his writing on the cultural implications of computing and globalization.
Bratton was early to demonstrate the impact that cinematic user interfaces for mobile social media would have on urban design. His current work develops a political theory of planetary-scale computation and draws from disparate sources, from Paul Virilio, Michel Serres, and Carl Schmitt, to Alan Turing, Google Earth, and IPv6.
Books: His 2015 book Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution was published by e-flux Journal and Sternberg Press in 2015.[16] It launched publicly at the 2016 edition of the Transmediale festival in Berlin.[17] In the description by Sternberg Press the book is " kaleidoscopic theory-fiction" which "links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control."[18]
2015, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty was published by MIT Press. The book challenges traditional ideas of sovereignty centered around the nation-state, and develops a theory of geopolitics that accounts for sovereignty in terms of planetary-scale computation at various scales.[19]
in 2017 Bratton completed The New Normal an ebook for Strelka Press which outlines the radical effects that technology is having on our world and describes the emerging forms of city that we should now be designing for.[15]
Articles: «Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics», Jun 2013
See: commentators on Accelerationism; cybercene;