James Der Derian

James Der Derian is a Professor (Research) of International Studies at Brown University and a filmmaker. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Harvard, MIT, USC, Copenhagen, PRIO, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Most recently he was a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in the Berliner Zeitung, New York Times, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and Wired. His most recent books are Critical Practices of International Theory (Routledge 2008) and Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (Routledge 2009). He has produced three documentaries with Udris Films, VY2K, After 9/11, and Human Terrain, which won the Audience Award at the 2009 Festival dei Popoli in Florence and has been an official selection at numerous international film festivals. His most recent documentary, produced in collaboration with Phil Gara, is Project Z: The Final Global Event, which premiers at the Leipzig DOK film festival in 2012.