Current Research Projects

I am currently working on two interrelated projects that focus on the Digital Revolution and the Information Age.

Hack: Game: Code

This project studies the intersections of contemporary digital and literary culture. Pursuing the dual meaning of “hack” as destruction and construction, of “game” as an immersive environment and a clever work-around, and of “code” as digital wizardry and communal standard, I examine the cultural touchstones of the technicians, technologists, and computer engineers whose work increasingly defines our experience of the world.

Digital Complicities

This project pursues the philosophical matter of complicity to reflect on new forms of affect, activism, and digital subjectivity in the 21st century. What assumptions of intentionality, agency, and responsibility are at work when pointing, clicking, “liking,” and retweeting disseminate information and disinformation? How are autonomy and agency impacted by the symbiosis of the empirical and its digital mediation that characterizes the lived reality of digital subjectivity in the 21st century?

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  • The Hacker Ethic
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