Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a research assistant at Technical University in Dresden, Germany with the Chair for Digital Cultures. She is interested in black studies, media & technology, poetics & politics, critical pedagogy & practice and speaks, writes and workshops for magazines, organizations and institutions. Her doctoral thesis about Édouard Glissant, histories of technology and cybernetics is finished at Leuphana University Lüneburg where she is also associated with the Centre for Digital Cultures and an alumna of the research training group «Cultures of Critique». In 2021 she was a lecturer at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, from October 2018 to May 2019 she was a Doctoral Fellow at the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, Montréal. She co-edited issue 26 of the German Journal for Media Studies (ZfM): «X | Kein Lagebericht« (04/2022), which is an anti-racist critique of the institution. Nelly is a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action, member of the German Forum Antiracism Media Studies (FAM) as well as the DFG Network »Gender, Media, Affect«.