Selected Academic Essays

“Poetry Against Calamity: Decolonial Ecography and Post-capitalist Economic Media.” UNITAS. 2022. unitasust.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/UNITAS-95-2-Beller-Poetry-Against-Calamity_compressed.pdf. 

“A Preamble to the Decolonization of Money.” La Furia Umana. 2022. web.archive.org/web/20220814205910/https://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/77-lfu-43/1103-jonathan-beller-a-preamble-to-the-decolonization-of-money. 

“Digitality and Racial Capitalism.” Handbook of Marxism. London, Sage Publications, 2021. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-marxism/book248518. 

“Communism Must Wager on Economic Media: Review of Brian Massumi’s 99 Thesis on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto.” Cultural Critique, no. 110, Winter 2021, pp. 219-253. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/culturalcritique.110.2021.0219. muse.jhu.edu/article/773610/pdf. 

“Economic Media: Crypto and the Myth of Total Liquidity.” Australian Humanities Review, no. 66, May 2020, pp. 215-225. australianhumanitiesreview.org/2020/05/31/economic-media-crypto-and-the-myth-of-total-liquidity.

“The Derivative Machine.” La Furia Umana, no. 37, Oct. 2019. web.archive.org/web/20200118193821/lafuriaumana.it/index.php/70-lfu-37/899-jonathan-beller-the-derivative-machine.  

Duarte, Susana Nascimento. “The Derivative Image: Historical Implications of the Computational Mode of Production, Interview with Jonathan Beller.” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 10, Mar. 2019, pp. 151-164. Social Text Online, 29 May 2019. socialtextjournal.org/the-derivative-image-historical-implications-of-the-computational-mode-of-production. 

“The Computational Unconscious.” The Digital Turn, special issue of b2o: an online journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Aug. 2018. www.boundary2.org/2018/08/beller. 

“Vida derivada: ¿subsunción informática o plataforma comunista?
 [Derivative Living: Informatic Subsumption or Platform Communism?].” Concreta, no. 11, Spring 2018, pp.36-47. dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8009477. 

“Derivative Living: Informatic Subsumption or Platform Communism?” Work, Body, Leisure, published for Venice Biennale Exhibition, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Dutch Pavilion, edited by Marina Otero Verzier and Nick Axel, May 2018. nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/work-body-leisure/publicatie. 

“Labor/Value/Information.” Here and Now (under Erasure), special issue of Social Text, vol. 36, no. 134, Summer 2018. read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/36/1%20(134)/95/134989/Labor-Value-Information?redirectedFrom=fulltext.

“The Fourth Determination: Spectral Politics and/or a New Money-Form.” e-flux, no. 85, Oct. 2017. www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156818/the-fourth-determination. 

“Preface to the Revolution: Digital Specters of Communism.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, vol. 24, no. 2, May 2017. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504630.2017.1321719. 

“Fragment from The Message is Murder.” Social Text, vol. 34, no. 128, Fall 2016, pp. 137-15. read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/34/3%20(128)/137/31142/Fragment-from-The-Message-Is-Murder. 

“The Programmable Image of Capital: : M-I-C-I′-M′ and the World Computer.” Postmodern Culture, vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2016. muse.jhu.edu/article/635542. 

“Informatic Labor in the Age of Computational Capital.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, no. 5.1, Spring 2016. csalateral.org/issue/5-1/informatic-labor-computational-capital-beller. 

“Texas-(s)ized Postmodernism or, Capitalism Without the Dialectic.” Social Text, vol. 34, no. 127, 1 June 2016, pp. 21-44. read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/34/2%20(127)/21/31101/Texas-s-ized-Postmodernism-Or-Capitalism-without?redirectedFrom=fulltext. 

“Rottenberg Pearls [Aesthetic Production with Mika Rottenberg].” Parkett, no. 98, June 2016. static1.squarespace.com/static/5e614fa6565bfc04478be7be/t/5ea8231c4959967123b78e85/1588077356119/Parkett+98+Rottenberg+Mika.pdf. 

“Within the Image.” Theory on Demand: The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital, no. 17, edited by Šefik Tatlić and Gordana Nikolić, Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2015, pp. 12-24. networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-17-the-gray-zones-of-creativity-and-capital. 

“The Cinematic Program.” La Furia Umana, special issue of What is Cinema Now? Apr. 2015. web.archive.org/web/20190104061945/www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/56-lfu-23/350-jonathan-beller-the-cinematic-program. 

“Theory Hogs of the Political Unconscious.” Being With, special issue of Social Text on the Work of José Esteban Muñoz, vol. 32, no. 121, Winter 2014, pp. 167-177. read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/32/4%20(121)/167/33824/Theory-Hogs-of-the-Political-Unconscious. 

“Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival.” NECS: European Journal of Media Studies, Fall 2013. necsus-ejms.org/advertisarial-relations-and-aesthetics-of-survival-advertising-advertisign. The new development paradigm: education, knowledge economy and digital futures, edited by Daniel Araya, Michael Peters, and Tina Besley, 2013. www.peterlang.com/document/1109407. ACTIONABLE IMAGE: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating, no. 62-63, 2012. badco.hr/en/publications-item/actionable-image. 

“Pathologistics of Attention.” Discourse, vol. 35, no. 1, Fall 2013. The Psychopathology of Cognitive Capitalism, Part One, edited by Arne de Boever and Warren Neidich, Archive Books, 2013, Berlin. www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/discourse.35.1.0046. muse.jhu.edu/article/527300/summary. 

“Digitality and the Shattering of Tradition.” Parallel Slalom: A Lexicon of Non-aligned Poetics, edited by Bojana Cvejic and Sergej Pristas, Walking Theory, 2013, Belgrade and Zagreb. www.academia.edu/22143635/Parallel_Slalom_A_Lexicon_of_Non_aligned_Poetics. 

“Wagers Within the Image.” Culture Machine, special issue of Paying Attention, vol. 13, 2012. The Creative University, edited by Patrick Crogan and Sam Kinsley, Sense Publishers, 2013, New Zealand, pp. 93-110. culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/466-977-1-PB.pdf. 

“Introduction.” Feminist Media Theory: Iterations of Social Difference, no. 10.3, Summer 2012. sfonline.barnard.edu/introduction-of-transnational-feminisms-contexts-topics-forms. 

“Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing With Light.” Feminist Media Theory: Iterations of Social Difference, no. 10.3, Summer 2012. sfonline.barnard.edu/camera-obscura-after-all-the-racist-writing-with-light. 

“Digitality and the Media of Dispossession.” Digital Labor, edited by Trebor Sholtz, Routledge, 2012. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203145791-14/digitality-media-dispossession-jonathan-beller. 

“The Martial Art of Cinema: Modes of Virtuosity a la Hong Kong and the Philippines.” Vaginal Economies, a special issue of positions: east asia, cultures, critique, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 2011. muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/453327. 

“Cognitive Capitalist Pedagogy and Its Discontents.” Cognitive Capitalism, Digital Labor and Education, edited by Michael A. Peters and Ergin Bulut, Peter Lang, 2011. www.peterlang.com/document/1108551. 

“Grammar of the McMultitudes: The Labor (Value) of Theory.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 106-113. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420903533127. 

Beller, Jonathan and Marina Gržinić. “Discussing Contemporary Capitalism and the Cinematic Mode of Production [in English and Slovenian].” Reartikulacija, no. 9, 2009. web.archive.org/web/20120327204927/http://www.reartikulacija.org/?p=617. 

“The Martial Art Called ‘Cinema’ [in English and Croatian].” China in the Global Cultural Imaginary. Zagreb, Subversive Film Festival, 2009. www.researchgate.net/publication/239860694_The_Martial_Art_of_Cinema_Modes_of_Virtuosity_a_la_Hong_Kong_and_the_Philippines. 

“The Art of War, Or, Coco Fusco’s Occupation.” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 24, 2009, pp. 30-39. nka.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/2009/24/30.pdf. 

“Iterations of the Impossible: Questions of Digital Revolution in the Philippines.” Postcolonial Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, 2008, pp. 435-450. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790802456036. 

Beller, Jonathan and Neferti Tadiar. “Cultural Revolution Internationale.” And Now China?, special issue of Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, Mar. 2008. www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/pdfs/CtrlP_Issue11.pdf. 

“Paying Attention.” Cabinet 24, contribution to documenta 12 magazines. New York, Distributed Art Publishers, 2007. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/beller.php.

“21st Century Fascism, ‘Political’ Killing, and the Crisis of Representation.” Kontra-Gahum: Academics Against Political Killings, edited by Sarah Raymundo, Ibon Publications, 2006, Manila. books.google.com.ph/books/about/Kontra_gahum.html?id=liJxAAAAMAAJ. catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4226960.  

“From Social Realism to the Specter of Abstraction: Conceptualizing the Visual Practices of H. R. Ocampo.” Kultura, no. 5, Fall 2004. www.academia.edu/42104928/FROM_SOCIAL_REALISM_TO_THE_SPECTER_OF_ABSTRACTION_CONCEPTUALIZING_THE_VISUAL_PRACTICES_OF_H_R_OCAMPO. 

“The Cinematic Mode of Production: Towards a Political Economy of the Postmodern,” in Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 44, no. 1, 2003, pp.. 91-106. jonathanbeller.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cmp-in-theorycultcrit.pdf.

“Numismatics of the Sensual, Calculus of the Image: The Pyrotechnics of Control.” Image[&]Narrative, no. 6, 2003. www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/mediumtheory/jonathanlbeller.htm. Pavilion: What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?, no. 10-11, Harris Print, 2007, Bucharest. www.academia.edu/42666399/Numismatics_of_the_Sensual_Calculus_of_the_Image_The_Pyrotechnics_of_Control. 

“Kino-I, Kino World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production.” The Visual Culture Reader, Second Edition, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, Routledge, 2002. www.academia.edu/42104865/KINO_I_KINO_WORLD_Notes_on_the_cinematic_mode_of_production.

“Third Cinema in a Global Frame: Curacha, Yahoo!, and Ishmael Bernal’s Manila By Night.” Positions, vol. 9, no. 2, Fall 2001, pp. 331-368. read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-abstract/9/2/331/29544/Third-Cinema-in-a-Global-Frame-Curacha-Yahoo-and. 

“Nationalism’s Molten Prayers: The Early Writings of Filipino National Artist H. R. Ocampo.” Philippine Studies, vol. 47, 1999, pp. 468-491. www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/2635/public/2635-3698-1-PB.pdf. 

“Directing the Real: Orapronobis Against Philippine Totalitarianism.” Third Text, no .45, Winter 1998-1999. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09528829808576761. Geopolitics of the Visible: Essays on Philippine Film Cultures, edited by Roland Tolentino, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000, Manila. unipress.ateneo.edu/product/geopolitics-visible-essays-philippine-film-cultures. The Third Text Reader, edited by Sean Cubitt, Rashid Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar, Continuum, 2002, New York and London. monoskop.org/images/3/32/Araeen_Cubitt_Sardar_eds_The_Third_Text_Reader_some_pages_missing.pdf.

“Dziga Vertov & The Film of Money.” boundary 2, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn 1999, pp. 151-199. www.jstor.org/stable/303744. 

“Visual Transformations and Philippine Modernity: Towards a Theory of Visuality in Philippine Modernity.” Fine Print, vol. 5, 1998. aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/fine-print-volume-v-1998. 

“Identity Through Death / The Nature of Capital: The Media-Environment for Natural Born Killers.” Post-Identity, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1998, pp 55-67. web.archive.org/web/20200711081941/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/postid/pid9999.0001.203/–identity-through-deaththe-nature-of-capital-the-media?rgn=main;view=fulltext. 

“Capital/Cinema.” Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics/Philosophy/Culture, edited by Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Heller, University of Minnesota Press, 1998. www.researchgate.net/publication/312979307_Capitalcinema_in_Deleuze_G_and_Guittari_F_1998. www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/deleuze-and-guattari. Gilles Deleuze’de Toplum ve Denetim [Turkish translation], edited by Ali Akay, Baglam yay, 2005, Istanbul. www.baglam.com/home/book/gilles-deleuzede-toplum-ve-denetim. 

“Writing Video Art.” Afterimage, vol. 26, no. 1, 1998. online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article-abstract/26/1/14/190149/Writing-Video-Art?redirectedFrom=fulltext. 

“City of Television: Metropolitan Affects and the New Americanism.” Polygraph 8/9: New Metropolitan Forms, Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 133-151. books.google.com.ph/books?id=PDUgAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=city+of+television.  

Beller, Jonathan, Mark Simpson and Neferti Tadiar. “Introduction: Making ‘New Metropolitan Forms.’” Polygraph 8/9: New Metropolitan Forms, Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 3-7. books.google.com.ph/books?id=PDUgAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=introduction. 

“Desiring the Involuntary: Late Capitalist Circulation and the Machinic Assemblage in Deleuze and Robocop 2.” Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, edited by Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake, Duke University Press, 1996. read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/599/chapter-abstract/127160/Desiring-the-InvoluntaryMachinic-Assemblage-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext. 

“The Spectatorship of the Proletariat.” boundary 2, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 171-228. www.jstor.org/stable/303727. 

“The Radical Imagination in American Film.” Creative Screenwriting, vol. 1, no. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 41-50. web.archive.org/web/19990129014434/http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/BackIss.html. 

“Cinema, Capital of the Twentieth Century.” Postmodern Culture, vol. 4 no. 3, May 1994. The Image of Technology Conference Proceedings, edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, University of Southern Colorado, 1994. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/27469. 

“Print Edition of ‘Intervention in the Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman.’” Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures and Politics, edited by Lloyd Kramer, Donald Reid and William L. Barnery, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttgtv.16.

“The Circulating Eye.” Communication Research, vol. 20, no. 2, Apr. 1993, pp. 298-313. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/009365093020002006.

Other Publications

Foreword. “On Economic Intelligence.” Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression, by Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen, Minor Compositions, 2023.

“Economic Media: A Brief Dossier.” La Furia Umana, 2022.

“Sociality at the End of the World.” Social Text, 2022.

Brietling, Justin. “Derivative Capitalism and Cryptoeconomics w/Jonathan Beller.” Diffractions Collective, 6 July 2021. diffractionscollective.org/derivative-capitalism-cryptonomics-w-jonathan-beller. 

“Fascism on the Blockchain: The work of art in the age of NFTs.” Coindesk, 21 Mar. 2021. www.coindesk.com/fascism-blockchain-art-nfts. 

“How We Short Capitalism and Finance the Revolution.” Coindesk, 25 Sep. 2020. www.coindesk.com/post-capitalist-revolution-tokenized. 

Nascimiento, Susana. “The Derivative Image: Historical Implications of the Computational Mode of Production, Interview with Jonathan Beller.” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 10, Mar. 2019, pp. 151- 164. static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/906805/28093173/1552137670123/10.08_Beller_Duarte.pdf?token=RHkFCprBxuaqWRYt9yGBYU1HTxE%3D. 

“Radical Decentralization: The ECSA (Multi-) Perspective.” Economic Spacing, 20 Nov. 2017. medium.com/economic-spacing/radical-decentralization-the-ecsa-multi-perspective-821992af05fe. 

“The Programmable Image.” Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2017. www.fotomuseum.ch/en/series/the-programmable-image.

Introduction. “Degrounding War and the State.” Social Text Online: Periscope, dossier on Allen Feldman’s Archives of the Insensible, 19 Apr. 2017. socialtextjournal.org/periscope_topic/degrounding-war-and-the-state. 

“When ‘Uberization’ Comes to Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 Oct. 2016. www.chronicle.com/article/When-Uberization-Comes/238004. 

“Aesthetics of Survival: On Ho Hsiao Hsien’s film Three Times.” 18 Apr. 2015. implizit.blogspot.com/2015/04/aesthetics-of-survival-jonathan-beller.html 

Jeric, Ante and Diana Meheik. “From the Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital: An Interview with Jonathan Beller for Kulturpunkt.” Social Text Online, 31 Jan. 2014. socialtextjournal.org/from-the-cinematic-mode-of-production-to-computational-capital-an-interview-with-jonathan-beller-for-kulturpunkt.

“Communist Computing, Visual Camouflage, Third Cinema — an Interview.” Edges, George Mason University, 30 Sep. 2013.

“Labor Day Manifestation Sa Maynila.” Social Text Online, 2 May 2012. socialtextjournal.org/labor_day_manifestation. 

“The Digital Ideology.” 11 Nov. 2009. www.slideshare.net/JonathanBeller/jonathan-beller-digital-ideology-presentation.

“Self Portrait as a Prosthetic Limb.” Ubiquitous Literary Magazine, Pratt Institute, 2007.

“Military Industrial Complex.” Shock and Awe: War on Words, New Pacific Press, 2004.

“Review of A Perfect Storm.” KUSP broadcast, July 2000.

“Review of Mission Impossible 2.” KUSP broadcast, May 2000.

“Review of Hi-Fidelity.” KUSP broadcast, Apr. 2000.

“Review of Black and White.” KUSP broadcast, Apr. 2000.

“Multicultural Depression (Kills): Review of Romeo Must Die.” KUSP broadcast, Mar. 2000.

“Wonder Why: Review of Wonder Boys.” KUSP broadcast, Mar. 2000.

“Executing Reality: The Whole Nine Yards.” KUSP broadcast, Feb. 2000.

“The Enterprise of Galaxy Quest.” KUSP broadcast, Feb. 2000.

“The Why of the Beholder: Review of Eye of the Beholder.” KUSP broadcast, Jan. 2000.

“All About Your Desire: Review of All About My Mother.” KUSP broadcast, Jan. 2000.

“The Silence of Alienated Toys: Review of Toy Story 2.” KUSP Broadcast, Dec. 1999.

“The Vile Green Mile.” KUSP broadcast, Dec. 1999.

“The End of The End of Days.” KUSP broadcast, Dec. 1999.

“What’s Inside The Insider?” KUSP broadcast, Nov. 1999.

“Fight Club’s Utopian Dick.” KUSP broadcast, Nov. 1999.

“Painting the Audience: Realism of Emmanuel Garibay.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday Magazine, 26 Jan. 1997.

“Manila By Night: A Tribute to Ishmael Bernal.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday Magazine, 23 June 1996.

“Jackie Chan’s Martial Art: The Body as a Site of Struggle.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, 30 Sep. 1995.

“The Invisible of Television: Lino Brocka’s Alternative Cinema.” Kampus Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, University of the Philippines Diliman, Sep. 1995.

“Are You a Cyborg?” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, 2 Sep. 1995.

“Casper, The Ghost of Childhood.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, 22 July 1995.

“The Pulp Fiction Faction: Notes Towards an Investigation.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, 1 July 1995.

“The Utopian Strains of Rob Roy.” Manila Chronicle, 4 June 1995.

“The Nature of Capital: Environment and Selection in Natural Born Killers.” Translated by Stefan Jonsson, Dagens Nyheter, Nov. 1994.

“From Democratic Man to Demolition Man: Stallone’s Demolition (of the mind of) Man.” Manila Chronicle, 4 Jan. 1994.

“Dinosaurs of Postmodernity: Jurassic Park and the World System.” Manila Chronicle, 3 Aug. 1993.

“White Homeland in A Far Off Place.” Manila Chronicle, Saturday Magazine, 24 July 1993.“Winning the Heart of the Military Industrial Complex: A Re-View of Robocop 3.” Manila Chronicle, 8 June 1993.