about

Hello!

My name is Alex Hack, and I’m an academic and artist living in and originally from Los Angeles.

My scholarship looks to support and engage with strategies that encourage human relation and understanding, this desire being intertwined with my background and research in digital media and its algorithmic and ideological borders. My current book project takes up American biomedicine, highlighting strategies of health and care that lie in an acknowledgement of bodily circumstance and deep and communal feeling, while also critiquing the methods by which, as an extension of chattel slavery and the extractivist ethos of Amer-European settler colonialism, the American medical establishment continues to deaden affective and vital points of interaction and healing.

I am currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in Gender Studies and English, working with Rachel Lee, and a member of the multi-campus UC working group Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice. I hold a PhD and MA from the University of Southern California in Cinema and Media Studies and a BFA from Parsons School of Design.  My writing can be found in American Studies, Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Docalogue, and Flow.

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