Biography
Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a research assistant at Technical University in Dresden, Germany with the Chair for Digital Cultures. She is interested in black studies, media & technology, poetics & politics, critical pedagogy & practice and speaks, writes and workshops for magazines, organizations and institutions. Her doctoral thesis about Édouard Glissant, (constructions of) histories of technology and liberation is finished at Leuphana University Lüneburg. With her colleague Michelle Pfeifer she is running the critical pedagogy project «School of (Un)Thought» with which they are also part of the international network ASchool. Nelly is a member of the German Forum Antiracism Media Studies (FAM) and the DFG Network »Gender, Media, Affect«. She is co-editor of Critique and the Digital, Zürich: diaphanes/Chicago UP, together with Erich Hörl and Lotte Warnsholdt (2020). Most recent: «After Opacity. A Turn Towards Langauge, Again», in: Clara Herrmann, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Maya Indira Ganesh (eds.), 2024: The AI Anarchies Book, Berlin: Akademie der Künste.