Tyler Hinson is a PhD researcher at the University of Essex, living a life of precarious mobility between Wivenhoe and Baltimore. His research interests surround the themes of cultural labour, affect theory, and autonomist Marxism. In synthesizing these areas, he seeks to highlight the ways in which the work of people like Deleuze and Guattari, Gilbert Simondon, and Gabriel Tarde, among others, provides useful insights into how cultural production can be approached in the era of post-Fordism. He can be reached via thinso@essex.ac.uk or http://essex.academia.edu/TylerHinson.