Alex Whee Kim

Alex Whee Kim (he/him) is a designer and writer from California. His research generally focuses on the role of games and other participatory media in the history of political and spatial practice. He is also interested in technologies of management, the history of the “modern-colonial,” and Cold War-era discursive networks. His doctoral research traces the genealogy of war gaming media and imperial geographical pedagogy, their relationship to approaches to architectural design and urban planning in the 1960s and 70s, and the development of a “crisis epistemology.” His writing—often collaborative—has appeared in Imago: Studi di cinema e media, Places, and Disc. He has been a coordinating editor of Paprika! and is a co-editor of the forthcoming Perspecta 57. Alex has a B.Arch from Syracuse University and an M.E.D. from Yale.

Research Area Keywords

Games Studies, Media Theory, Cold War, Imperialism, Countercultures, History of Cartography, Management Studies