About
I teach and write literary and media theory with reference to humanist critiques of technology, cultural histories of the US Left, and political capacities of art.
I’ve published two books
—Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies (Cornell University Press, 2019) and
What Lies Between: Void Aesthetics & Postwar Post-Politics (Rowman and Littlefield Intl., 2015)—and
my other writing appears in such journals as
diacritics,
Configurations,
Cultural Critique,
Camera Obscura, and
Postmodern Culture, for which I co-edited a special issue on the topic of “
Medium and Mediation.” Thoughtful praise of
Dismantlings appears in
American Literary History, in
boundary 2 , and in
The Year’s Work in English Studies; and of
What Lies Between in
American Literature. I interviewed on the topic of
literature and technology with
Public Books and on
critical cyberculture with our
Digital Culture and Media Initiative, which I now direct. I wrote
on the Cornell Press blog about how digital culture is best discussed as a continuing episode in a long story about work and war, production and exchange, power and money.
