Faculty

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”  

What I love to write, and to teach, is ways to think critically about contemporary life, as we can perceive and understand it via its media and culture. If we can equip ourselves with concepts that create some distance from our all-too familiar media bubbles, we can find our way towards crafting better lives, singly and together. Alongside my regular courses in digital media, I've lately been writing and teaching a lot in transgender studies. I've also just fineished a book about the queer and trans rave scene in New York, reviving an old interest in the study of nightlife and subcultures. I like to stay curious, and tend to move my research and writing interests on to different topics every few years—so maybe I'll be looking into something else again soon. 

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FAHA

• Raving, 2023
• Philosophy for Spiders: on the low theory of Kathy Acker, 2021
• Sensoria, 2020
• I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 (with Kathy Acker), 2015
• Capital is Dead, Verso Books, 2019
• General Intellects: 21 Thinkers for the 21st Century, Verso Books, 2017
• Molecular Red: Theory of the Anthropocene, Verso, 2015
• The Spectacle of Disintegration, Verso Books, 2013
• Telesthesia: Communication, Culture & Class, Polity Press, 2012
• The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Like and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, Verso Books, 2011
• Gamer Theory, Harvard University Press, 2007
• A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, 2004