About

Lachlan Kermode is a PhD student in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown, and a Research Fellow at the research agency Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London). After receiving an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Princeton University (2018), he worked for several years as a software researcher at Forensic Architecture, and then as a software engineer building cloud infrastructure for machine learning models. He has also worked as a mobile developer and as a full stack engineer. His current work is concerned with the political potential of open source and open hardware cultures, the history of computer science and software engineering as disciplinary practices, and the implications and impacts of computing as media at large. 2024 he is “Computer Science, Cybernetics, and the Philosophy of Error: The Humanist Critique of Capitalism in an Age of Artificial Intelligence” Digital Humanism Fellow at IWM.