Jathan Sadowski is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centred-Computing in the Faculty of Information Technology. He is also an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society.

More specifically, Jathan's main research project researches the political economy and social impacts of how information technologies are being integrated into the FIRE Sector (finance, insurance, and real estate). His work focuses especially on the market for insurance technology (insurtech), the techno-politics of actuarial governance and risk modelling, and how changes in insurtech are impacting our lives and society.

More broadly, Jathan's work critically analyses the relationship between technology and capitalism. He has written two books about this subject. His first book — Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World — lays out how the pursuit of power and profit is being materialised through smart technologies that have infiltrated all of society. His second book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism — goes even deeper into demystifying the material relations that underlie these systems and showing why technological capitalism must be dismantled so we can build a better world, bit by bit. These two books are best paired together.