I am a reader of texts at The New School for Social Research in lower Manhattan as well as researcher and instructor at its undergrad campus, Eugene Lang College. Other projects include multimedia site "Exmilitary" and fringe working unit "The New School for Hyperstitional Studies" ( detailed below )
Current Positions:
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College (The New School). Instructing a course titled "Digital Communications and its Discontents" , syllabus here and faculty spotlight here
Instructor at Eugene Lang College, "The Coming Immunity," Summer 2020. as a part of Lang Summer Learning Communities
Graduate Student at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) studying Media and Culture (MA expected completion spring 2020)
peer-reviewed publications:
-Garden of artificial delights: residual memories of the digital in contemporary art, TBA Journal, University of Western Ontario, Fall 2020
- Undoubtable Noise: deepfakes and cybernetics, Conference Proceedings from Doubt: Modalities of Being and Thinking, University of Montreal, (later 2020)
- Tidal Recursions: Solarist geotrauma in the time of planetary dysphoria, Am Strand Magazine (Berlin), 2018
presentations, lectures, performances:
- "Reportback to the Board of Trustees: a performance-lecture from the secretary of The New School Committee on Hyperstitional Studies, a Session of the New School for Social Research Liberal Studies Project Series (3/2020)
- Auto-suggestive +1: noise, immediacy and deepfakes, Colloque arts et médias de l'Université de Montréal (11/19)
- "A visibility that is not," introduction for "Invisibility and the Politics of Disappearance" with Andrew Culp, The New School, (10/2018)
- Against the Wall: Assembling Dissonance and the 'hostological' other, Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference (5/18)
- Anti-Leviathan: necropolitical analog/ues and a few dystopian assemblages, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) University of Pittsburgh (4/18)
other prose
- "Insideness", in Rilking (2020, eds. Ariana Reines, Marie Ségolène)
co-director of EXMILITARY: a multi-media outlet based in Brooklyn, NY found online here
- The Eastern European Apocalypse (curator and critic) a film series of four films including On The Silver Globe by Andrez Zulawski (1988) and Letters from a Dead Man, Konstantin Lopushanskiy (1986)
- Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher (1999), published with a new introduction
- and many more past/future projects available online & at your local bookstore
director of The New School Center for Hyperstitional Studies ( TNSBaphomet studies [at] gmail . com )
- organizer of the OMNICIDE research unit
- secretary of the Baphomet Desk (6 East 16th St. NY, NY 10003)
editorial experience with: Columbia University Press, Melville House Publishing, Kirkus Reviews and Minor Compositions
teaching certificate (NYC Department of Education - Substitute Teacher): English, English as a Second Language (ESL) and Social Studies
event organizer: Virtual Futures (UK/USA)
- Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (FSG, 2019) Book Launch (4/19)
- Near-Future Fiction Reading Series (Spring 2018)