Cameron Hu is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, following fellowships in Vienna and Berlin. He received a PhD in Anthropology from University of Chicago, where his dissertation received the 2022 Daniel F. Nugent Prize in Historical Anthropology. He is a scholar of technoscience, capitalism, empire, environment, and social theory. Cameron's ongoing projects include Knowing Destroying, an historical ethnography of extractive science and planetary counterrevolution; Powerpoint Metaphysics, a book-length essay on the aesthetics and geopolitics of the "systems" era; a sequence of theoretical articles exploring liberal grammars of agency, historicity, and necessity; a collaborative exploration, with several colleagues, of secular epistemomania; and, as a member the LiCo trio, a series of fictions, films, and installations on the choreography of mental and environmental turbulence.     

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