Andrew Culp
His Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) argues against the “canon of joy” that has domesticated French philosophy. A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (2022) extends this project through an archive of punk cinema, hacker manifestos, anarchist pamphlets, feminist art, and Black rebellion, foregrounding invisibility, fugitivity, and non-participation as modes of disruption. His newest book, Anarcheology of Power, examines the enduring divide between rulers and the ruled across five modes of power. His essays and political writing have appeared in venues ranging from academic journals to underground pamphlets.
With The Destructionist International, Culp makes films on sabotage, techno-destruction, and the lure of archives. Their Machines in Flames (2022) traces a clandestine group that bombed computer companies in 1980s France and was named one of the best video essays of 2023 by Sight & Sound. The collective's work has screened at squats, festivals, and museums across four continents.
His practice extends beyond the page and screen: he codes interactive projects, convenes long-running public reading groups, leads workshops on digital self-defense and radical pedagogy, and produces zines, stickers, and other print ephemera.
Contact & Current Role
• Position: Program Director, MA in Aesthetics and Politics; Professor of Media History and Theory, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
• Address: 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355, USA
• Email: aculp@calarts.edu
• Website: andrewculp.org
Education
• PhD in Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2013
• MA in Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2009
• BA (Honors) in Heterodox Economics and Philosophy, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2006
Academic & Administrative Appointments
• Program Director, MA in Aesthetics and Politics, CalArts, 2023–present
• Professor of Media History and Theory, Faculty of MA in Aesthetics and Politics, CalArts, 2017–present
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication, University of Texas at Dallas, 2016–2017
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Studies, Whitman College, 2014–2016
• Lecturer, Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2014
Books
• Control Phreaks: A Critical History of Cybernetics – monograph in preparation
• Quiver: New Weapons for Thought – co‑authored book in preparation (Erratum Press)
• The Anarchaeology of Power – scholarly monograph under review
• Filosofia sotterranea (DeriveApprodi, 2026/27) – Italian collection of my writing, in production.
• A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) – examines the politics of refusal; Greek translation forthcoming, selections available in Italian
• Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) – translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Persian; bootleg editions circulated in Latin American Spanish, Russian, and Turkish; Turkish and Simplified Chinese editions under consideration
Peer‑Reviewed Scholarship
Journal Articles and Essays
• “No Capacities to” (Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 2025, pp. 139‑148)
• “Machines in Flames: Computation, Destruction, and the Lure of Archives” ([in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 11.4, 2024) – video essay with accompanying peer reviews
• “Computation: A Counter‑History” (Counter‑Signals 5: Systems and Their Discontents, 2024) – with Thomas Dekeyser
• “A Manifesto for Destructionist Film” (Counter‑Signals 5: Systems and Their Discontents, 2024) – with Thomas Dekeyser
• “Afterword: What Lies Beneath” (Techniques Journal 4, 2024)
• “An An‑arkhḗ‑ology, or Preliminary Materials for Any Future Account of the State” (Selva: A Journal of the History of Art 4, 2022)
• “Chaos, Creativity, Change: The Cybernetic Logic of Late Capitalism” (Architectural Design, 2022)
• “Control after Cybernetics: Governmentality as Navigation by Homeostasis and Chaos” (Symplokē, 2020)
• “Deleuze Beyond Deleuze: Thought Outside Cybernetics” (Coils of the Serpent 5, 2020)
• “A Method to the Madness: The Revolutionary Marxist Method of Deleuze and Guattari” (Stasis 7.1, 2019) – bilingual edition
• “Accelerationism and the Need for Speed: Partisan Notes on Civil War” (La Deleuziana 8, 2019)
• “Dark Deleuze” (Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational, 2018; reprinted in Dictionnaire Deleuze (Bouquins, 2019))
• “Aliens, Monsters, and Revolution in the Dark Deleuze” (University of Minnesota Press online, 2016; reprinted in Japanese and English)
• “Beyond Recognition” (Hostis 2, 2016) – with Jose Rosales
• “Signs of Protest Rhetoric: From Logos to Logistics in Luther’s Ninety‑Five Theses” (Quarterly Journal of Speech 102.2, 2016) – with Kevin Kuswa
• “Confronting Connectivity: Feminist Challenges to the Metropolis” (Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2015)
• “The State, Concept not Object: Abstraction, Cinema, Empire” (parallax 21.4, 2015)
• “Philosophy, Science, and Virtual Communism” (Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 20.1, 2015)
• “Dispute or Disrupt? Desire and Violence in Protests Against the Iraq War” (Affinities 6.1, 2013)
• “Ghost Stories and Nightmares” (Three Word Chant 1, 2012)
Book Chapters
• “Afro‑Pessimism and Non‑Philosophy at the Zero Point of Subjectivity, History, and Aesthetics” in The Big No, ed. Ferguson (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
• “Worlding Cybernetics” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory, ed. Di Leo and Moraru (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Artistic & Research‑Creation
Film & Video Works
• Breached: A Chronicle of Cargo Theft (15 min, 2024) – co‑directed with Thomas Dekeyser and Eva Della Lana as The Destructionist International; presented as a gallery installation and screened internationally.
– Included in “Is It Possible to Make Holes in Boxes?” at Space Heem, Busan (October–November 2025), supported by Arts Council Korea.
– Screened at Transmediale (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 31 2025).
– Presented as a double feature with Machines in Flames at Gray Area, San Francisco (April 9 2025).
– Online premiere at Ill Will (November 2024) with a published interview.
• Machines in Flames (50 min, 2022) – co‑directed with Thomas Dekeyser as The Destructionist International; distributed by Artyčok.TV.
– Screened at WRO Media Art Biennale (Wrocław, Poland, May 2023); Bergamo Film Meeting (Italy, March 2023); Marienbad Film Festival (Czech Republic, July 2023); Pugnant Film Series (Athens, May 2024); and MSU Broad Art Museum (Michigan, October 2023).
– Named one of the “Best Video Essays of 2023” by Sight and Sound (British Film Institute).
– Over 100 screenings worldwide at festivals, museums, universities, and community spaces; attended more than 30 screenings for Q&A and discussions.
Digital & Software Projects
• Pacified/Animated (2025) – interactive web application and performance lecture created and programmed with Thomas Dekeyser; presented at Transmediale (Berlin, January 31 2025).
Artist’s Books, Pamphlets & Zines
• Dark Deleuze Comic Book Series (4 issues, 2025) – writer, designer, and publisher. Adaptation of the 2016 monograph using generative AI imagery; available via IndyPlanet.
• A Manifesto for Destructionist Film (2024) – co‑authored with Thomas Dekeyser; design by Becky Nasadowski; articulates the Destructionist International’s artistic commitments.
• Chapbook/Zine Collaborations (2022) – “Anonymity,” “Fugitivity,” and “Techno‑Anarchism,” with Nefer a’Re, Anaionymous Nin, and Matthew Johnson.
• Underground Philosophy (2021) – essay collection, including “In Defense of Cruelty,” “Accelerationism and the Need for Speed,” and “The Revolutionary Disaster / The Disaster of Revolution”; Italian translation forthcoming.
• The Black Arrow (2019) – pamphlet.
• Insurrectionary Foucault: Tiqqun, The Coming Insurrection, and Beyond (2010) – pamphlet; reprinted in Japanese (HAPAX 7, 2017).
Curatorial & Audio Work
• Positions Podcast (Season 1, 2023) – Host and producer of this peer‑reviewed series for the Cultural Studies Association and Lateral journal, featuring episodes such as “Digital Disengagement” and “The World as Abyss.”
• Being and Event Podcast (2023) – Co‑creator, co‑host, and producer (with Alexander Galloway) of a nine‑episode series on Alain Badiou’s Being and Event, combining close reading with interviews (Anna Kornbluh, Calvin Warren, Madhavi Menon). Over 15 hours of produced audio.
• Selected Interviews & Appearances – Guest on War Machine (December 5 2024) and Ill Will (November 9 2024) print interview.
• Catalogue Essay for Tech/Know/Future: From Slang to Structure – Montclair State University, 2021.
• Catalogue Essay for Dysfunctional Furniture by Ken Ehrlich – Human Resources, 2020, with Eva Della Lana.
• Additional Podcasting and Media Appearances (2017–2024)
– “Is Aggression Inevitable?” (University of Minnesota Press podcast, May 2025) – conversation with John Protevi on Regimes of Violence.
– “Guerilla Guide to Refusal” (War Machine podcast, May 2024).
– Book release panel for Chantelle Gray’s Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari (with Jesse Cohn, September 2022).
– Four episodes for the Theorizing the Web podcast (2022): “Machines in Flames,” “The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism,” “Feminist Machine Logics,” and “Breaking Things at Work.”
– “A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it” (University of Minnesota Press podcast, June 28 2022) – with Jose Rosales, Will Conway, and Violet.
– “A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal” (Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast, June 4 2022).
– Discussion on A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (Critical Postmedia
Research Network, September 28 2021).
– “Who is ‘Dark Deleuze’?” (Acid Horizon podcast, August 30 2020).
– “Dark Nomads and War Machine w/ Andrew Culp” (Undisciplined podcast, January 25 2020).
– “Dr. Andrew Culp – Dark Deleuze” (C/O podcast with Cooper Cherry, November 4 2019).
– “A Dark Deleuze for the End of the World” (Parallax Views podcast with J.G. Michael, September 25 2019).
– “Dark Deleuze Interview with Andrew Culp” (Flicker Theory Reviews YouTube, March 24 2018).
– “Ep 44: Dark Deleuze” (Theory Talk podcast with Joseph Weissman, October 9 2017).
Invited Lectures & Keynotes
Recent Keynotes and Featured Talks
• “Predict, Police, Repeat: Life Caught in the Feedback State” – Presidential keynote, Cultural Studies Association National Conference, Valencia, CA, May 2025
• Opening screening and discussion, “Shady Subjects: Everyday Contestation in Automated Systems,” Cornell University, April 24 2025
• “The Cruel Thrill of Exploiting Others” – keynote, “Cruelty and Brutalism Today,” University of Warsaw, Poland, November 2024
• “Towards an An‑arkhé‑ology of the Urstaat” – invited lecture, VI Jornadas de la Red de Estudios Latinoamericanos Deleuze y Guattari, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2024
• Performance lecture – Transmediale (Berlin), January 31 2025 – presenting Pacified/Animated
• Artist talk and screening – Gray Area, San Francisco, April 9 2025
• “An arche‑ology” – Humanities on the Edge lecture, University of Nebraska‑Lincoln, October 16 2024
• “Radical Politics // Destruction Aesthetics” – Cultural Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, August 30 2023
• “Luddism and Techno‑Destruction” – Michigan State University, October 2023
• “Media Theory” – University of Thessaly, June 2023
Earlier Invited Lectures (2013–2022)
• 2022 – A series of co‑presentations with collaborators on Machines in Flames and war machines: Mayday Rooms (London) with Daniel Nemenyi; Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths (London) with Anthony Faramelli; Université Paris 8 (Saint-Denis) with Makis Solomos; Université libré (Brussels); Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam); Constant (Brussels); FilmArche (Berlin); Shades Magazine at Laidak (Berlin); Κομπραί Bookstore (Athens); Void Network (Athens); Woodbine (Brooklyn); Photographers’ Gallery London / Fotomuseum Winterthur (Screen Walks); Royal Holloway (University of London); University of Amsterdam (Neo‑Luddite Research Seminar); University of Bologna (Ubi Minor). Additional talks included “Cybernetics as Navigation” (with Ubi Minor) at University of Bologna, “Deleuze and Politics” (plenary) at Deleuze Studies in India Collective (Zoom), and “Guerrilla Refusal” at Boneshaker Books (Minneapolis).
• 2021 – “The Politics of Refusal” (SUNY Political Theory Seminar); “New Discussions on Contemporary Philosophical Nihilism” (Society of European Philosophy, Zoom); “Conversations on Inclusivity” (Digital Futures, Zoom); “Dark Deleuze in Greece” (Deleuzo‑Guattari Seminar Greece, Zoom); “The Italian Translation of Dark Deleuze” (Ubi Minor, Zoom).
• 2020 – “Anti‑Racist Advocacy” (Matriarchs for Change, July 16, 2020).
• 2019 – “Chaos Reigns? The Politics of Fragmentation” (Texas A&M University, Oct 7); “Invisibility in the Age of Disclosure” (UCLA Department of Information Studies Colloquium, Oct 3); “The Molecular Counter‑Revolution: Toward an Art of Distances” (University of Alberta, Sept 13); “Deleuze and Debate” (Cal National Debate Institute, Jul 29); “Moral Code” panelist (UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, May 28); Moderator of “Fireside Chat: Moral Code – Ethics in the Digital Age” with Luciano Floridi and Damian Borth (Thomas Mann House, May 27); “Control after Cybernetics” (Winter Theory Institute, Florida State University, Feb).
• 2018 – “Invisibility and the Politics of Disappearance” (The New School, Oct 4); “Deleuze and Immigration” (Wake Forest University Debate Workshop, Aug 3); Keynote, lectures, and panels at the Dark Ontologies Track of Illuminations, University of Tyumen, Siberia (Jul 23–28); Respondent to Graham Harman at the Saas‑Fee Summer Institute of Art (Otis College of Art and Design, May 23); “Thinking Space” keynote (Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference, Toronto, May 11–12); “The Ends of the Human: Technology Today” (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Apr 19–21); Keynote “Development Vectors in Russia” (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Apr 19–21); “Dark Deleuze” (European University at St Petersburg, Oct 28); Series of seminars for “Grammar of the Post‑Contemporary” (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Oct 22–26); “Dark Deleuze” talk and Q&A (Global Debate Symposium, Colorado College, Jul 13); “Destroying the World: Between Fanon and Afropessimism” (The New School for Social Research, Apr 21); “Dark Deleuze” author’s talk (Bbooks, Berlin); “The City at the End of the World” keynote (Annual Graduate Student Conference Toxic/Cities, Western University, London, ON, Mar 2–4).
• 2016–2017 – “Dark Deleuze” author reading (Left Bank Books, Seattle, Jul 9 2016); “The Discourse of the Anthropocene” (Evergreen State University, Olympia, Mar 2 2016); “Dark Deleuze: The Powers of the Outside” (University of Washington, Seattle, Jun 25 2015); “Metropolis as Media Object: Encounter, Disjunction, and Asymmetry” (University of Washington, Seattle, Mar 20 2014); “Escape after Empire: Liberation, Anti‑Politics, and Composition” (Binghamton University, Apr 1 2013).
Workshops & Community Engagement
• Reading Groups at The Public School Los Angeles – Co‑convener of “A Thousand Plateaus Page‑By‑Page” (since 2021) and “The Ultra Contemporary” (eco‑politics, Black studies, feminist theory). Open to artists, curators, librarians, therapists, filmmakers, and community members.
• New Media and Digital Cultures working group – member and workshop participant, Cultural Studies Association (2011-present).
• Feminist Digital Self-Defense Workshop – Cultural Studies Association, 2024.
• Working Group on Abolitionist Radical Philosophy – Co‑sponsor with Dana Papachristou (ourquiver.org, 2021–present).
• Social Media Dis‑Engagement Workshop – with Mark Nunes, Cultural Studies Association, New Orleans, 2019.
• “Back to the Future: Automation and Other Blasts from the Past” – workshop with Ken Ehrlich, The Public School Los Angeles, March 2019.
• Social Distance Films & Lockdown Los Angeles Film Series (April–June 2020) – curator, The Public School Los Angeles.
• West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series – Convener for multiple seasons (2019–2020), hosting Nicholas Mirzoeff, Aria Dean, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Shakeer Rahman, Hamid Khan, The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Ken Ehrlich, Calvin Warren, Linette Park, Rita Raley, Jasbir Puar, Sarah Roberts, Dominic Pettman.
• “Sentient Flesh” Conference (CalArts, Jan 2021) – organiser; participants included
• “Back to the Future: Automation and Other Blasts from the Past” (2019) – with Ken Ehrlich, The Public School LA.
• 2018 events – co‑organised “The Invisible Committee: Now” with Chloe W and Jason E Smith; “A Conversation Between Viola Ago and Andrew Culp” video essay for Becoming Digital (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor); talk at California College of the Arts Wattis Institute (“Andrew Culp on Agitprop”).
• 2017 events – “The Great Unfriending: A Field Guide to Surviving Digital Networks” (QGCON: The Queerness and Games Conference, Los Angeles); “Dark Deleuze in the Dark” with Elia Vargas (INTERVAL, University of California, Santa Cruz); “The Network is Hostile” (Living Room Light Exchange, Oakland); “Campus Carry Wreath” (Feminist Research Collective, Disobedient Electronics critical making zine); Interregnum: A Podcast – lectures in critical and cultural theory (2016–present).
• Earlier public events – “The Power of the False” (The Public School, Oakland, Nov 11 2012); “The Geometry of Revolution” (ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Feb 9 2010); “G20 and Resistance” with Gabriel Salomon (Descent to Revolution, Columbus College of Art and Design, Sept 22 2009).
Conference Papers & Presentations
Selected Papers and Panels (2009–2025)
• 2025 – “A Book Proposal on Soft Control,” Cultural Studies Association (Apr); “Pedagogy Workshop,” Cultural Studies Association (Apr); “Independent Publishing / Infrastructure and Systems,” workshop at Cultural Studies Association (Apr); “The Grandeur of Marx: A Book Proposal,” Western States Political Association (Apr).
• 2024 – “Feminist Digital Self Defense,” workshop at Cultural Studies Association (Jun); “Negativity,” International Studies Association (Mar).
• 2023 – “An‑Archaeology,” book in progress presentation, Cultural Studies Association, Fairfax (Jun); Digital Pedagogy Workshop, Cultural Studies Association (Jun).
• 2022 – “Edge Cases: Art and Struggle” (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Los Angeles, Sept); “New Books in New Media and Digital Culture” (Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, Jun); “Media Studies Pedagogies” (Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, Jun).
• 2021 – “Cyberhorror Riff‑along,” Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (Oct 1); “Control Phreaks,” Cultural Studies Association (Zoom, Jun).
• 2020 – “Imperceptibility and the Politics of Disappearance,” Cultural Studies Association (Zoom, May).
• 2019 – “Mask On/Mask Off,” American Studies Association, Honolulu (Nov); “Cybernetics and Neoliberalism,” Cultural Studies Association, New Orleans (Jun).
• 2018 – “The Database and the Archive,” Cultural Studies Association, Pittsburgh (Jun); “Art and Reason: Art’s Possible Worlds,” College Art Association, Los Angeles (Feb).
• 2017 – “Fugitivity as Invisibility: Escaping the ’Net,” American Studies Association, Chicago (Nov); “The Great Unfriending,” Technology and Culture Working Group, Cultural Studies Association, Washington DC (May); “Cultural Studies as ‘Serious Interdisciplinary Work’,” Conjunctures, Cultural Studies Association, Washington DC (May); “Between Non‑Standard Philosophy and Afro‑Pessimism,” The Big No, Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee (Apr); “Another End of the World is Possible,” SubRosa, Santa Cruz (Apr); roundtable participant, Toxic/Cities conference, Western University, London, ON (Mar).
• 2016 – Panels on “Critical Historicism and Historicizing Crises,” “New Developments in Marxism,” and “Slogans, Signs, Posters, and Pamphlets: Protest Propaganda as a Mode of Address” (Cultural Studies Association, Philadelphia, Jun; Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta, May); “Confronting Connectivity: Feminist Challenges to the Metropolis” (Western States Communication Association, San Diego, Feb).
• 2015 – “Non‑Constitutive Rhetoric: On the Banality of Control” (National Communication Association, Las Vegas, Nov); “#GHE20G0TH1K: Afropessimism as Aesthetic Blackness?” (Cultural Studies Association, Riverside, May); “‘The Languages of Infrastructures’: Capitalism as Public Address” (Western States Communication Association, Spokane, Feb); “Militancy, Antagonism, and Power: Rethinking Intellectual Labor, Relocating the University” (MLA Subconference, Vancouver, Jan).
• 2014 – “Feminist Mappings of the City” (National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov); “Affective Critique: Mediation as a Response to Cynical Ideology” (Media Ecology Association, Toronto, Jun); “‘Wages for Facebook’: Unpaid Labor in the Digital Economy” (Cultural Studies Association, Salt Lake City, May); “It Is Raining: Aleatory Materialism and the Digital Stream in Four Movements” (Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, Mar).
• 2013 – “The State as a Virtual Object in Nagisa Oshima’s Death by Hanging” (Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Sept); “Everybody Talks About the Weather, but Nobody Does Anything About It: Interiority, Affect, and Negation in the Metropolis” (Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Sept); “Escape: Toward a Negative Definition of Empire” (Marxist Literary Group, Columbus, Jun).
• 2012 – “Reading Sabotage: Translating Criminality Into Revolution” (Historical Materialism, Toronto, May); “Affect as a Model of Post‑Modern Power” (Cultural Studies Association, San Diego, Mar); “Weaponizing Escape: Disemboweling the Metropolis” (Binghamton University, Mar).
• 2011 – “Three Theses for Marxist Politics Today” (Marxist Literary Group, Chicago, Jun).
• 2010 – “Forget the Dialectic: Abolishing the Present State of Things” (Marxist Literary Group, Antigonish, Canada, Jun).
• 2009 – “Alternatives to Everyday Resistance to Neoliberalism: Foucault and Beyond” (Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Nov); “Social War in The Coming Insurrection” (Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Nov); “Histories of Race and Racialization: A critical genealogy of race” (Confronting Racism: Building United Movements, Columbus, May); “Virtuous Bombs: The Mechanical Eye and Friction Embodied in the Gulf” (George Mason University Cultural Studies Graduate Conference, Fairfax, Oct).
Teaching & Pedagogical Development
Course Design and Instruction
• CalArts (2016–present) – Courses taught include Introduction to Radical Politics (4 sections); Cyberpunk (2 sections); Evil Media (2 sections); Invisibility Studies and the Politics of Disappearance (2 sections); Tactical Media; Advanced Media Theory; Feminist Surveillance Studies (3 sections); No Future: Optimism and Pessimism in Theory; Another End of the World Is Possible (2 sections); Critical Discourse in Arts and Society (3 sections) and Critical Discourse in Arts and Society–Platforms (14 sections); Contemporary Aesthetic Theory (3 sections); Contemporary Political Thought (4 sections); Graduate Thesis Seminar (4 sections); and numerous independent studies on topics such as media theory, data visuality, geophilosophy, abolitionism, feminist psychoanalysis, and journal submission practicum.
• University of Texas at Dallas (2016–2017) – Writing and Research for Emerging Media (4 sections); Graduate Seminar: Digital Textuality.
• Whitman College (2014–2016) – Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism (“Junior Seminar”) (2 sections); Fundamentals of Public Address (4 sections); Queer Theory in Rhetorical Studies; The Rhetoric of Work; The Rhetoric of Class; Critical Whiteness Studies and Rhetoric.
• The Ohio State University (2008–2014) – Introduction to Cultural Studies (“Theory for Majors”); American Identity in the World (second‑level writing, 9 sections); Film and Literature as Narrative Art (2 sections); Introduction to the Humanities: Cross‑Cultural Perspectives (6 sections); Directed reading courses on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of language.
Mentorship and Student Outcomes
• Regularly supervises independent studies, MA theses, and projects; emphasises one‑on‑one mentorship to transition students from consumers to producers of knowledge.
• Recent mentees have entered PhD programs at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Notre Dame, and University of Barcelona (Fall 2025 cohort).
• As thesis advisor or second reader at CalArts, has supported more than 18 MA students since 2017; external reader for theses at institutions such as the Global Center for Advanced Studies, Higher School of Economics, and the University of Thessaly.
• At Whitman College, co‑directed seven senior theses, including projects that won the National Communication Association’s James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award, the Franklin Shirley Award for top paper in the Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Conference, and the David Nord Award for Queer Scholarship.
Service & Leadership
• Program Leadership – Completed a 25‑page review of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program (2024) that guided a curriculum overhaul and new graduate concentrations; instituted an admissions turnaround strategy that tripled applications and improved yield; led institute‑wide budget analyses during austerity to enhance transparency and faculty engagement.
• Conference Hosting and Coordination – Led the site committee that brought the Cultural Studies Association National Conference to CalArts (Summer 2025); organised numerous lecture series and workshops at CalArts and The Public School Los Angeles; served as seminar director for “New Developments in Marxism” (Cultural Studies Association, 2016) and panel organiser for sessions at the Rhetoric Society of America, Western States Communication Association, and Marxist Literary Group conferences.
• Admissions & Recruitment – Modernised recruitment protocols for the Aesthetics and Politics program, integrating individual interviews and ambassador outreach; promoted international recruitment and increased diversity within the cohort.
• Conferences, Colloquia, and Seminars Organized – Directed the Ultra Contemporary Reading Group at The Public School LA (2022–present); planned the Technology and Politics Series (2020–2021); organised radical politics programming at The Public School LA (2019); chaired and organised panels on protest rhetoric, queer anti‑assimilation, race and cultural resistance, and Marxist epistemologies across conferences from 2009 onward.
• Community Building & Diversity – Sponsored a pre‑doctoral fellow from Rio de Janeiro State University (Fall 2024); facilitated exchanges with French art schools; recruited students from diverse international backgrounds.
Service to the Field & Community
• Editorial Roles – General Editor of Hostis issues 1–3 (2015–2022); editorial board member of (Des)troços Journal (2020–present) and DobleAEditores Press (2018–present).
• Professional Service – Awards Committee member, Cultural Studies Association (2021–present); governing board member (2015–2018), executive committee member (2015–2016), and working group coordinator (2014–2017); conference core organiser for the Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society (Columbus, OH, 2013).
• Peer Review – Regular reviewer for Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Oraxiom, MIT Press, Pluto Press, Polity, Bloomsbury, University Press of Mississippi, University of Nebraska Press, boundary 2 online, CSA Lateral, Art Journal, the Estonian Research Council, Stasis, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, China Media Research, Explorations in Media Ecology, and Distinktion.
• Public Scholarship – Maintains open reading groups and public lectures bridging academia and community; mentors early‑career artists and scholars through The Public School Los Angeles; participates in local arts programming.
Radical & Self‑Publishing Practice
Through The Destructionist International and independent projects, Andrew Culp sustains a practice of self‑publishing and underground media. He organises zine collaborations, pamphlets, and critical-making workshops (e.g., creative/critical code, feminist self-defense sessions) to circulate theory outside institutional channels. This practice complements formal scholarship and underscores a long‑term commitment to radical pedagogy and media interventions.
Honors & Recognition
• Machines in Flames was named one of the “Best Video Essays of 2023” by Sight and Sound (British Film Institute).
• Translations of Dark Deleuze and A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal into multiple languages (German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, French, Portuguese, Italian, Persian, with more forthcoming) demonstrate the international reach of the work.
• Invited as a keynote speaker and featured lecturer at institutions and conferences across North and South America, Europe, and Asia.