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Scott Ferguson is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and associate professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. Dr. Ferguson earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. His current research and pedagogy aim to bring the political-economic insights of Modern Monetary Theory into generative dialogues with humanities scholarship, continental philosophy, and media theory. His present areas of focus include the history of aesthetics; digital animation and visual effects in action-adventure blockbusters and videogames; and essayistic writing across media platforms. Dr. Ferguson has published essays in Screen, Boundary 2 Online, Naked Capitalism, Rebelión, CounterPunch, Critical Inquiry’s “In the Moment” blog and Liminalities. His book Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics & the Politics of Care was published in 2018 by University of Nebraska Press. He also co-directs the Modern Money Network Humanities Division and co-hosts the Money on the Left podcast featured at Monthly Review Online.