Philip Glahn

Philip Glahn is Professor of Critical Studies and Aesthetics at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University in Philadelphia. His research and teaching focus on the histories, theories and practices of art as technology, labor and activism. Glahn has published on the legacies of avant-garde strategies, the politics of drawing, digital media and new social formations, radio and the public sphere, as well as other topics. His book addressing questions of socialism and technology, pedagogy and the utility in the work of Bertolt Brecht was published in 2014 by Reaktion Books. "The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image" was published in 2024 by MIT Press and awarded the 2025 Frank Jewitt Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association.