Joshua Neves is Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University (Montréal). His research work focuses on Digital Media, Cultural and Political Theory, and problems of development and legitimacy. He is the author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (2020), and co-editor of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (2017). Neves' current project examines contemporary neuropolitics and cultures of optimization.