Matthew benjamin
cole, PHD
I’m a Research Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Source Project at Binghamton University. My interdisciplinary teaching in political science, philosophy, and environmental studies reflects a wide-ranging research agenda in political theory.
political theory in the future tense
As a political theorist, I’m drawn to questions about the future - how we imagine it and who has the power to shape it.
My work examines thought and action in times of crisis, from the twentieth-century traumas of totalitarianism and nuclear war to the political, technological, and ecological crises that will define our century.
My first book, Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century, is available now from the University of Michigan Press in paperback, hardcover, and open access e-book formats.