A. Aneesh is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is executive director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a professor of global studies and sociology. Previously, he taught at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Aneesh developed and coined the term “algocracy,” which is the concept that global work is governed through the design of the work process itself, focusing on the role of programming schemes embedded in global software platforms that structure possible forms of action. Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization (Duke 2006) and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (Duke 2015), Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.
