A. Aneesh

Aneesh Aneesh^[1] is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology.^[2] Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs and the global studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee^[3]. In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at Stanford University and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field of algorithmic governance in the social sciences. Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization (Duke 2006) and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (Duke 2015), Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.

Aneesh studied Physics, Economics, and Philosophy at the University of Allahabad, earning a Bachelor's degree there in 1987. After pre-doctoral study in Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University he came to the University of California, Irvine for a Master's degree in social relations in 1996, and completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at Rutgers University in 2001.^[3]

Aneesh has written or edited the following books:

• Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (2015)^[4]
• The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives (co-edited, 2012)^[5]
• Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices (co-edited, 2011)^[6]
• Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization (2006)^[7]

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