Project Collaborator
Zach Yost
PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies
University of Chicago
Biography
Zach Yost is a PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His research addresses processes of abstraction and the construction and interchange of concepts between social, technical, and aesthetic domains, engaging with histories and philosophies of media, science, and technology. In recent work, he has focused on the legacies of principles from thermodynamics, information theory, and ecology as they are elaborated within neoclassical economics and complementary technologies. He also enjoys films about time.
Project
Phytological Critique
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2023 – 2026