Professor Ryan Bishop 

Professor of Global Arts and Politics, Co-Director of the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group,Faculty Director of Doctoral Research (Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics, Co-Director of the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group within the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, and Faculty Director of the Doctoral School (Faculty of Arts and Humanities).

In addition to co-editing with John Armitage and Doug Kellner the journal Cultural Politics (Duke University Press), he serves on the Theory, Culture & Society editorial.

He also edits the book series Technicities for Edinburgh University Press (with John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, and the book series "A Cultural Politics Book" for Duke University Press (with John Armitage and Doug Kellner). He previously edited the book series Theory Now for Polity Press,

Some of his most recent books include Technocrats of the Imaingation: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (co-authored with John Beck, Duke University Press 2020), Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (co-edited with Sunil Manghani, Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (co-edited with John Beck Edinburgh University Press 2016), Barthes/Burgin (co-edited with Sunil Manghani Edinburgh University Press 2016), Virilio and Visual Culture (co-edited with John Armitage, Edinburgh University Press, 2013), Comedy and Critique in American Film (Edinburgh University Press 2013) and Otherwise Occupied (co-edited with Gordon Hon Al-Hoash/Third Text 2013).

His research areas include critical theory, critical cultural studies, literary studies, visual culture, urbanism, aesthetics, critical military studies, geopolitical imaginaries, institutional studies, architecture, and sensory perception and knowledge formation.