Benjamin L.
Jones (he/him) researches the speculative analysis and praxis of oppressed
people. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Northwestern University’s Department of Art
History, with an interdisciplinary cluster certificate in Critical Theory. His
art-historical interests include contemporary intersections of art and power,
futurism, and Black radical visual culture and performance. Funded by the
Social Science Research Council and the Mellon foundation, his work engages
critical ethnic studies, critical pedagogical practices, and feminist
mobilizations of onto-epistemology and quantum mechanics. A practicing artist,
Jones graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a B.A. in the History
and Theory of Contemporary Art (highest honors). He is currently working on two
projects: What We Fin’na Do: Preface to a 5,000 Year Almanac, and What We
Cain't Do: The Pedagogy of the Black Radical Aesthetic Tradition. He has been
awarded the 2022-2023 Dissertation Fellowship in Black Studies at the University
of California, Santa Barbara.