Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a Black and media-studies scholar based in Vienna whose work explores the entanglements of Black studies, media and technology, poetics and politics, and critical pedagogies. Her doctoral thesis, Édouard Glissant and the Poetics of the Technological Everyday, investigates through the work of Glissant language as a technology and its historical, cybernetic, and epistemological dimensions. She has held positions at the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, the University of Groningen and Leuphana University and is affiliated at the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg. With Mitch Pfeifer she co-runs the School of (Un)Thought, which is part of the translocal ASchool network, and is active in the speakers’ circle of the Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity (KriSol) among other groups and initiatives.
Pinkrah’s recent and forthcoming publications include «The Technical» in Museums as Commons. A Vocabulary for Collective Counter-Intelligence (Curating Exhibition Theory & Practice, De Gruyter, 2026); «Opacity. What remains» in Bloomsbury’s Thinking Media series; «Calculating Intelligence» in coded manoeuvres (2025); and «Making Progress» (Academy of Fine Arts / Mythopoesis for Techno-Living Systems, 2025).