David Phillips

David J. Phillips is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His work investigates the political, economic, social, and technical configuration of surveillance and ubiquitous computing. His overarching question is whether and how these infrastructures of data exchange and knowledge production can be made amenable to democratic action, non-normative identities and ideals, and queer world-making. With Kate O’Riordan, he is co-editor of Queer Online: Media Technology and Sexuality (Peter Lang, 2007). His theoretical approach is informed by the political economy of communication, science and technology studies, surveillance studies, and queer theory. Most recently, his work employs theatre performance as research method.