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Alex Ungprateeb Flynn
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is a British-Thai art theorist, curator and anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Assistant Professor in the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance. He is an affiliate member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique (LAP) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and previously held a faculty position at University College London and research positions at the University of Cambridge and Durham University.

Biography
Flynn received an B.A. in English Literature from St. Hugh's College, Oxford (2001) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2010), under the supervision of Professors John Gledhill and Lúcia de Sá. He subsequently held an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge's Division of Social Anthropology, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Durham's Department of Anthropology. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) among others.

Research
Flynn is best known for his work on art and activism – most particularly for his conceptions of subjectivity, aesthetics and politics, and the temporality of transformation. This research has primarily addressed the topics of social and political change and the contemporary art scene of Brazil. Flynn's work has had a major influence on methodological work between anthropology and the arts, particularity through his concepts of 'reference to gesture' and the 'double fold' that characterize the relationship between aesthetic and social forms. This work forms part of the book 'Talking Form, Making Worlds', winner of the 2023 Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies Prize, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association.

Flynn is committed to an ongoing conversation between art and anthropology. He is particularly recognized for articulating an anthropology strongly influenced by post-Heideggerian continental philosophy and critical theory, the theoretical articulation of which he describes as critical hermeneutics.

Curatorial practice
Flynn is best known for his work on art and activism – most particularly for his conceptions of subjectivity, aesthetics and politics, and the temporality of transformation. This research has primarily addressed the topics of social and political change and the contemporary art scene of Brazil. Flynn's work has had a major influence on methodological work between anthropology and the arts, particularity through his concepts of 'reference to gesture' and the 'double fold' that characterize the relationship between aesthetic and social forms. This work forms part of the book 'Talking Form, Making Worlds', winner of the 2023 Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies Prize, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association.

Flynn is committed to an ongoing conversation between art and anthropology. He is particularly recognized for articulating an anthropology strongly influenced by post-Heideggerian continental philosophy and critical theory, the theoretical articulation of which he describes as critical hermeneutics.

He has contributed several articles to openDemocracy on addiction, the war on drugs, and political activism.

Books

 * A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community. Oakland: University of California Press. 2019.
 * Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding. New York: Fordham University Press. 2018.
 * HIV is God's Blessing Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2011.
 * Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow. Leiden: Brill. 2010.
 * Morality: An Anthropological Perspective. Oxford: Berg Publishers. 2008.

Articles

 * "Can Machines Be Ethical?: On the Necessity of Relational Ethics and Empathic Attunement for Data-Centric Technologies," in Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol 86, no. 4. 2019.
 * "What is a situation?: an assemblic ethnography of the drug war," in Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30, no. 3. 2015.
 * "An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of World-Building: A Critical Response to Ordinary Ethics," in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20, 746–64. 2014.
 * "Maintaining the 'Truth:' performativity, human rights, and the limitations on politics," in Theory and Event, vol. 17, no. 3. 2014.
 * "Temporalization and Ethical Action," in Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 42, no. 3. 2014.
 * "Attunement and Fidelity: Two Ontological Conditions for Morally Being-in-the-World," in Ethos, vol. 42, no.1. 2014.
 * "Moral breakdown and the ethical demand: A theoretical framework for an anthropology of moralities," in Anthropological Theory, vol. 7, no. 2. 2007