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Paul Michael Privateer is an American cultural philosopher, data science advocate and novelist. He is the founding director of three U.S. non-profits focused on reducing school violence, creating a global archive to recycle social capital projects, and the third serving Seattle’s need for using data to enhance its livability, accessibility, transportation, public safety, and economic vitality.

Privateer was born in New York, served in the U.S. Air Force, and earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on post-structural theory. His dissertation offered an interdisciplinary study of the philosophical, sociological and cultural significance of human identity as a political construct in post-Enlightenment culture. As a graduate student at the University of Geneva, he studied under Jacques Derrida, Jean Starobinski, Paul de Man, and Gregory Polletta.

Privateer’s interest in the history of ideas also covers the cultural intersections of science, digital culture and information technology. His books include Romantic Voices and Inventing Intelligence, and many of his journal articles interrogate the cultural and political effects of cyberspace, digital technology, and corporate media. His novel, The Oracle Virus, was published in December 2016.

Paul has taught at San Jose State, the University of Southern Mississippi, Georgia Institute of Technology and Arizona State University. The University of Geneva, and Stanford University and MIT provided a Fulbright and a visiting professorship. He was an Apple Fellow, a member of Georgia’s Human Rights Commission and served on the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He had also appeared in the New York Times and on CNN, PBS, ABC, NPR, and BBC4 given his work on post-Enlightenment social history, education reform and the digital future.

His most recent emphasis in on constructing citizen-service organizations, devolution focused reconstructions of traditional city political systems, as well as a philosophical and cultural interrogation of information, as both aa concept and artefact.

List of Major Publications

The Oracle Virus (2016) Inventing Intelligence (2006) Romantic Voices (1987)