Stefan E. Kehlenbach

Dr. E. Stefan Kehlenbach is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, structures of power and politics.

Currently, he investigates technological power, exploring how the vast collection of data used to fuel technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning becomes imbued with discourses of power and shapes our political futures. This work develops a new critical theory of technology centred on data and datafication—the process of transforming aspects of our daily lives into analyzable data.

Dr. Kehlenbach’s research has been published in Theory & Event, the Journal of Military Ethics, and the Journal of Political Science Education, and his public-facing work has appeared in the Washington Post and APSA’s Educate blog. His book project ‘Behind the Silicon Curtain: A New Critical Theory of Technology’ addresses political and critical theory to the problem of mass datafication.

Dr. Kehlenbach received his PhD from the University of California, USA, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before joining the faculty at the University at Albany. He teaches courses on the politics of technology, critical theory and contemporary political theory. 

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