Felicia JingNew York, NY   



A political theorist by training, my research approaches the politics of algorithms and computing from radical democratic, STS, Marxist and Marxian traditions of critique. My dissertation project, titled “Untimely Algorithms: Technology, Political Thought and Futurity,” is a methodological contribution to the critical history of algorithms. 

Currently, I am completing my PhD in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and, before that, I received my BA in Philosophy from Reed College. Since 2022, I have also concurrently worked in the tech industry as a full-time researcher at IBM. There, I interact daily with algorithmic systems, observe their design and development, and conduct AI audits using methods from the humanities.

My work in political theory has been published in Techné, is forthcoming in Political Concepts, and is under preparation for special issues of Social Text, and Big Data & Society.  My empirical research conducted at IBM has appeared in venues like FAccT and CSCW. From 2024-2026, my work will be supported by grants from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab and the National Endowment for the Humanities.


SELECTED Publications



2025 “Algorithm” in Political Concepts
Article


2025 “Technologies of Elite Capture“
Article


2026 “On Emplotment, Synthetic Data, and Coloniality” in Social Text
Article

2026 “Voice/Noise and the Human in the Age of AI” in BD&S
Article

2024 “Designing for Agonism” in ACM CSCW
Proceeding

2023 “Toward Labor Transparency” in  ACM FAccT
Proceeding

2022 “Politics without Privacy” in Techné
Book Review


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