Jaeho received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England, with a thesis on Walter Benjamin’s theory of media and experience. Before teaching at The New School, he was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Institut fuer Sozialforschung at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has a book in progress, Walter Benjamin and Media: The Spectacle of Modernity. Jaeho has published articles on the social theories of Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, and Juergen Habermas. His research interests include critical theory of art and technology; new media and political communication; media and the city. He is currently investigating Siegfried Kracauer’s critical theory of media and politics focusing on film, propaganda, and the transformation of the mediated public sphere. Jaeho is expanding the theoretical motives of critical theory through analysis of media and urban spaces in Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul.

Courses:
Media and Social Theory
Media and Critical Theory
Media and American Modernity
Foundations of Media Theory