Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He holds the positions of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, and Program Director of Graduate Program in Media Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Dartmouth College Press and University Press of New England, 2006), and Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and The World Media-System (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). Forthcoming books include The Message is Murder (Pluto Press) and Computational Capital (Dartmouth College Press and University Press of New England).