Biography
Zach McLane is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. He studies the relationship between race, militarism, and issues of environmental justice. Currently, his research focuses on the development of military infrastructure in California after 1945, and is concerned with the shift from the post-war welfare state to the neoliberal economy. He is interested in the rise of Silicon Valley, the enmeshment of militarism in everyday life, and the means by which artists, activists, and working people have conceptualized and resisted the war machine. He holds a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California where he studied narrative form and contemporary visual culture.