[…]his book, This is Not an Essence: Dali and Postmodernism, a phenomenological exploration of loss, and a study on the irruption of the uncivilized body in everyday face-to-face interaction. Marc J. LaFountain is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology at the University of West Georgia. He teaches courses on phenomenological sociology, visual sociology, sociology of the body, and critical theory and cultural politics. Among his current research projects are a continuation of his research on Dali, first presented in his book, This is Not an Essence: Dali and Postmodernism, a phenomenological exploration of […]
[…]an award-winning game designer, artist, researcher, teacher, and author of The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution (Macmillan, 1997), and other articles and papers on interactive media, game design, and culture. She currently has an appointment as Sr. Game Research Associate at the Game Culture and Technology Lab of the University of California, Irvine, and is also a lecturer at the University of Southern California, where she held various appointments between 1998 and 2001. Celia Pearce is an award-winning game designer, artist, researcher, teacher, and author of The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution (Macmillan, 1997), […]
[…]devoted to new media poetry. Brian Kim Stefans is the author of three books of poetry, including Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998). His most recent book is Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, a collection of poetic essays. A new essay will appear in New Media Poetics: Histories, Institutions, and Audiences, published by MIT Press in 2004. He edits the website Arras, devoted to new media […]
[…]Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2010). Christopher Leise is assistant professor of English at Whitman College. He is most recently the co-editor of Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, […]
[…]news and review column currently available at . Ken Hite is the author or co-author of over forty RPG games and supplements, including the Origins Award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation RPG, Call of Cthulhu d20, GURPS Horror, and Nightmares of Mine, a study of horror role-playing. From 1996 to 1998 he was Line Developer for Chaosium’s Nephilim occult RPG, for which he also wrote two sourcebooks. Since 1997, he has written “Out of the Box,” an RPG industry news and review column currently available at […]
[…]specializes in critical theory, contemporary American literature, and comparative studies. His latest books are Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), and Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (2005). An Associate Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Christian Moraru specializes in critical theory, contemporary American literature, and comparative studies. His latest books are Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), and Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism […]
[…]Group 2020 (CCSWG ‘20), a biannual meeting to explore the intersections of humanistic inquiry and computer code studies. Coordinated by Mark Marino (USC), Jeremy Douglass (UCSB), and Zach Mann (USC), the 2020 Working Group was held online from January 20 to February 3. It brought together more than 150 participants from around the world to share ideas, populating dozens of discussion threads with hundreds of comments, critiques, and critical readings. The need to attend to code could not be more urgent. Code exerts a regulatory effect over society and culture: it can influence how we interpret the world and even […]
[…]at Multimedia, Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His latest books (in Danish) are “Interface – Digital kunst og kultur” (“Interface – Digital Art and Culture” – with the Interface research project) and “Ex Libris – Medierealistisk litteratur – Paris, Los Angeles & cyberspace” (“Ex Libris – Media Realistic Literature – Paris, Los Angeles & Cyberspace”). Soren Pold is Associate Professor of digital aesthetics at Multimedia, Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His latest books (in Danish) are “Interface – Digital kunst og kultur” (“Interface – Digital Art and Culture” – with […]
[…]member of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition where he collaborates with members of the lab and the local community in the creation and study of informal afterschool learning environments. These afterschool spaces are designed to include artifacts and cultural practices intended to promote the cognitive, emotional and social transformation of adult and child participants. Robert Lecusay is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition where he collaborates with members of the lab and the local community in the creation and […]
[…]Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His dissertation examines how the search engine comes to dominate the American cultural imagination over the course of twentieth century. Accordingly, his research interests include media theory, twentieth century American fiction, the history of information science and science fiction. For more detail, please visit davidhaeselin.com. […]