Education—————————————————————————————————————
Ph.D. Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2014
Dissertation: “Posthuman Capital: Neoliberalism, Telematics, and the Project of Self-Control”
Advisors: Philip Armstrong and Brian Rotman
Readers: Eugene Holland, Kris Paulsen (History of Art), Alexander Galloway (Media and Culture, New York University)
Examination Areas: Critical Media Theory; Philosophy of Visual Culture; Cinema and Time
M.A. English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 2006
Examination Areas: Performance Studies; Critical Theory
B.A. Philosophy, English, Political Science. Ashland University. Ashland, OH, December 2003

Research & Teaching Interests————————————————————————————
Digital and Screen Cultures, Politics, and Aesthetics
Science and Technology Studies (Posthumanism, Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence)
Critical Theory (Marxism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism)
Intellectual History of Liberalism and Neoliberalism

Current Projects————————————————————————————————
Network Fascism and the Neoliberal Subject, from Algorithmic Media to Affective Order (book).
Lithium: The Brains of the Earth (book).
“Authority and Abstraction: Neo(liberal)fascism in the Age of Informatic Indifference” (article for Lateral special issue on The Interregnum).
“Market, Actor, Network: Posthuman Capital and the Antisocial Sciences from Hayek to Latour” (article).

Book Reviews, Interviews & Art Writing————————————————————————
Review, David Parisi, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 2018.
Review, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Updating to Remain the Same and Tung-Hui Hu, Prehistory of the Cloud. Reviews in Cultural Theory, vol. 8, no. 1, Fall 2018, pp. 64–70.
“Giving Shape to Painful Things.” Interview with Claire Fontaine (with Andrew Culp). Radical Philosophy vol. 175, Sept/Oct 2012, pp. 43–52.
Review, Todd McGowan, Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema. Film-Philosophy, vol. 16, no.1, 2012, pp. 292–298.
Review, Joseph Mai, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Film-Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 2, 2011, pp. 119–125.
Review, Sean O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke, Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New. Foucault Studies, vol. 12, Fall 2011, pp. 214–218.
“A More Vital Communication: Telepathic Hallucination and the Proto-Posthuman Event.” In Media Res presents “Posthumanism and Media,” March 2011. Curated visual exhibit. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/03/04/more-vital-communication-telepathic-hallucination-and-proto-posthuman-event-0
“Cinema and Empire,” review, Michael J. Shapiro, Cinematic Geopolitics. Film-Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 475–480.
Review, Martin Harries, Forgetting Lot’s Wife. Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008, pp. 117–124.
“Guy Debord and the Aesthetics of Cine-Sabotage.” Great Directors entry. Senses of Cinema, Winter 2007). http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/great-directors/debord/

Professional Presentations & Workshops———————————————————————
“Blockchain as Social Power Technology: Reckoning with Ownership and Authority in the Post-information Age.” Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, June 2022.
“The Network Must Be Defended: Antibodies for Capital and the Failures of Immunity in Digital Discourse.” Cultural Studies Association, virtual, June 2021.
Participant, “Revisiting ‘The Missed Articulation’: The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies Methodology.” Cultural Studies Association, virtual, June 2021.
Participant, “M/C Journal Launch Roundtable: Zoom.” Cultural Studies Association, virtual, June 2021.
“The Joy of Following: Instagram Influencers, TikTok Stars, and the Fascist Masters of Today.” Media Ecology Association, New York (held virtually due to Covid-19), June 2020.
“The Joy of Following: Social Media Aesthetics and the Fascist Masters of Today.” Cultural Studies Association, Chicago (held virtually due to Covid-19), May 2020.
“The Joy of Following: Fascist Impulses, Network Aesthetics, and the Ineffectiveness of Information.” Boston Area Deleuze Group Annual Conference, Boston, MA, October 2019.
“Six Images of Information: On the Radical Ineffectiveness of Digital Dispositifs.” Cultural Studies Association, New Orleans, June 2019.
“Can There Be a Digital Dispositif? Visuality and Discourse in the Age of Telematic Culture.” Foucault Circle Annual Meeting, Easton, MA, April 2019.
“Time-Image as Counter-Control: Deleuze’s Intervals: Resisting the Present.” Boston Area Deleuze Group Annual Conference, Boston, MA, September 2018.
“The Money without a Face: Blockchain as Neoliberal Technique.” Cultural Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2018.
“Telematic Self Writing and the New Spirit of Control: Working through New Media with Late Foucault.” Media Ecology Association, Moraga, CA, June 2017 (paper accepted, unable to attend).
“Gregariousness as Governmentality: The Reproduction of Debt and Credit Relations in the Social Media Subject.” Cultural Studies Association, Washington, D.C., May 2017.
“Self/Writing/Control (Working through New Media with Late Foucault).” Cultural Studies Association, Washington, D.C., May 2017.
“Between Gregariousness and Governance: Social Media’s Cult of Debt.” Theorizing the Web, New York, NY, April 2017.
“Neoliberalism and its Enemies: Foucault After Becker.” Cultural Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, June 2016.
“Hermeneutics of the Neoliberal Subject.” Foucault Circle annual meeting, Richmond, VA, March 2015.
“Arts of Steering: On Governing the Posthuman.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Dallas, October 2014.
“Ubiquitous Computing and the Micro-Entrepreneurial Spirit: Diffuse Competition in the Service Provider Marketplace.” Apps and Affect, University of Western Ontario, London, October 2013 (paper accepted, unable to attend).
“Subjectivity and Truth in Chicago School Social Theory.” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, September 2013.
“Self-representation in the Cast of Homo Financius: Towards a Theory of Posthuman Capital.” Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society, Columbus, June 2013.
“The Ends of Biopolitics: Human Capitalist as Homo Financius, Governmentality as Telematic Self-Control.” Foucault Circle annual meeting, Montreal, April 2013.
“From the Chicago School to the Smartphone: Towards a Genealogy of the Telematic Self.” Hayes Research Forum, Columbus, February 2013.
“Financialization and Subjectivity: On Governing the Posthuman.” Comparative Studies departmental lecture series, Columbus, February 2013.
“Neoliberalism and Precarity: Investment in Self and Others.” Guest lecture in “Culture and Capital: Precarity” graduate seminar, The Ohio State, September 2012.
“Time-Image as Counter-Control: Deleuze’s Intervals.” Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, June 2012.
Participant, Deleuze Studies Summer Workshop: “Deterritorializing Deleuze,” New Orleans, June 2012.
“Neoliberalism @ Cybernetics: Theorizing the Telematic Socius of Contemporary Finance.” Cultural Studies Association, San Diego, March 2012
“The End of Oblivion in the Infinite Present: Notes on the Sociotemporality of Capitalism with Derivatives,” Seminar: On Speculation, Cultural Studies Association, San Diego, March 2012.
“The Telematic Technics of Neoliberal Governmentality; or, Media Demassification in the Societies of Control,” ATLAS Conference: Digital (De-)(Re-)Territorialization, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, March 2012.
“From the Chicago School to the Smart Phone: Rethinking the Legacies of Wiener and Hayek.” Aesthetics/Class/Worlds: Conference of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2011.
“From Hayek to Rancière: Remarks on Neoliberal Subjectivation.” Northwestern Summer Institute, Evanston, July 2011.
Participant, Northwestern Summer Institute: Jacques Rancière, The Center for Global Culture and Communication, Evanston, July 2011.
“Guy Maddin’s Virtual Lost and Found: The Mnemo-Poetics of Hauntings.” ZdC Graduate Conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, April 2011 (paper accepted, unable to attend).
“Philosophies of Phantasms, Societies of Control: Deleuze, Telepathy, and the New Politics of New Media.” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2011.
“1651/1976: Genealogy, Virtuality, War.” Foucault Circle Annual Meeting, Baltimore, April 2010.
“Machines that Gesture, Shots that Cut: Notes on Agamben’s Cinematic Thought.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2010.
Moderator, “2012 and Post-apocalyptic/post-revolutionary/post-utopian politics,” ROYGBIV Gallery, Columbus, February 2010.
Participant, “Time, Technology, and the Political,” workshop in Political Theory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 2009.
“‘Occupy without Counting’: Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, March 2009.
“Spectatorial De-Structuring and the Affective Space of the Mise-en-Scène.” Bodies in Pain/Pleasure: Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies, Columbus, January 2009.
“Death of a President (2006): Counter-Cinema for the Present.” Pop Culture Association Conference. Boston, April 2007.
“’I Blame Hym Thus’: Lordly Hegemony and Echoic Iconoclasm in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale.” International Conference on Medievalism. Columbus, October 2006.
“Vibratory Understanding: Language, Identity, and Therapeutics in Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty.” Intimacy/Proximity: A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Bloomington, April 2005.

Invited Talks————————————————————————————————————
“Swipe Life: Neoliberal Epistemology and the Digital Dispositif.” Tufts STS Lunch Seminar, Medford, MA, March 2019.
“The Politics of Social Media Image Culture.” Guest lecture, Digital Life seminar, Bennington College, November 2018.
“On Spectatorship and the Image: The Aesthetic Philosophy of Jacques Rancière.” The Video Support Group Film School, Columbus, OH, April 2010.
“From Image to Gesture and Back Again: Giorgio Agamben and the Cinematization of Thought.” Gesture at Large Conference and Art Exhibition, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, February 2010.

Media Appearances—————————————————————————————————
Featured instructor, Campus Wire, “Most Innovative Courses of 2020,” for Cultures of Computing. https://medium.com/campuswire/cultures-of-computing-bf3a4d6e50c5.
Featured guest, Boston Media Theory, Newton Community Television, Newton, MA, July 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv0gDzifww&t=200s.
Expert commentator, “People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot,” Fast Company, 4 January 2019. https://www.fastcompany.com/90287323/people-are-falling-off-buildings-in-search-of-the-perfect-instagram-shot.

Teaching Experience————————————————————————————————

Lecturer, Film & Media Studies, English, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, 2021–present
Digital Rhetoric and Globalization
Writing about Film and Media (Upper-division Writing Seminar)
Reading Around the Web (Digital Semiotics)
Digital Cultures

Lecturer, Anthropology, English, STS, Tufts University, 2015–present
Cultures of Computing
Topics in Literature and Culture: Digital Rhetoric
First-Year Seminar: Digital Media Cultures
Life: STS Reading Lab
Information: STS Reading Lab
Automation: STS Reading Lab

Teaching Assistant, Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
The Film Experience

Lecturer, Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2014–2015
Science and Technology in American Culture
American Identity in the World
Introduction to the Humanities

Graduate Teaching Associate, Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2014
Global Studies of Science and Technology
Film and Literature as Narrative Art
Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies
Literature and Society
The Holocaust in Film and Literature (Teaching Assistant)

Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2014
Introduction to Philosophy

Adjunct Professor, English, George Mason University, 2011
First-Year Composition

Graduate Teaching Associate, English, The Ohio State University, 2004–2006
The American Experience
First-Year Composition with Literature Theme

Awards and Honors—————————————————————————————————
Humanities Delegate, Hayes Research Forum, The Ohio State University, 2013.
Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2012.
Faculty Research and Professional Development Grant, Department of English, George Mason University, 2011.
Travel and Research Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, The Ohio State University, 2010.
Graduate Student Travel Grants, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2010, 2012–2013.
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2005.

University Service & Academic Employment——————————————————————
Assistant Specialist, School or the Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine, 2021–present.
Treasurer, Cultural Studies Association, 2019–2024.
Contributing Editor, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 2018–present.
STS Program Committee, Tufts University, 2019–2021.
Governing Board Member, Cultural Studies Association, 2018–2021.
Coordinator/Instructor of record, Tufts STS Lunch Lectures seminar series, Spring 2018.
Reviewer, Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 2017–2018.
Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Communications, 2016–present.
Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2013.
Research Assistant, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago, 2011.
Treasurer, Comparative Studies Graduate Student Group, 2009–2010.
Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2009.
Administrative Assistant, Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 2008–2009.
Reader and Organizational Assistant, Bodies in Pain/Pleasure: Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies, 2008–2009.
Administrative Associate, Writing Workshop, The Ohio State University, Summer 2005.
Reader, Writing Workshop Placement Committee, The Ohio State University, Summer 2005.