Media & Ecology | Asst. Prof. of Cinema & Media Studies @USCCinema | PhD @MCMBrownU & Postdoc @IFK_UChicago

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Joined December 2011
In 1997, Al Gore rehearsed an argument in front of 100 of the US's TV weathercasters that - almost line for line - would become An Inconvenient Truth almost a decade later. See the article for how this event contributed to pub. understandings that overpopulation = climate change
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I haven’t had a chance to post about it here. SO - Very happy to have a chapter in this wonderful volume. The piece thinks alongside artists working on infrastructure and ecology in İstanbul, while also staging an early encounter between Gilbert Simondon and communist theorizing.
In "Media Rurality," edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, contributors show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/M8lC4sJ
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CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2026: Periodization. Link below
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My book now has a cover! 100% Utilization: Computation and Labor After Moore’s Law is a wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation. Out Spring 2026 from @mitpress (link in next tweet).
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Announced! “Excluded Media,” the 2025 RMP Media Aesthetics summer institute is now accepting apps. July 21-25 at Northwestern, 5 days of workshops/talks/screenings with Genevieve Yue, Michael B. Gillespie, Kartik Nair & Cait McKinney. Please Share! Info: cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/rh…
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I’m excited to return to DAW ! My talk, “The Generative Image,” investigates the way in which AI externalizes and operationalizes the imaginative capacities which influence the genetic process of image-formation. Come for Simondon, stay for the formal analysis of a cat video.
Join us for our last AY 24/25 Digital Aesthetics event: AI & Media Roundtable, with Sun-ha Hong, Johan Fredrikzon, Julia Irwin, and Hank Gerba on May 20, 5-7pm PT. Abstracts and bios can be found here: tinyurl.com/3tb8jkrb Zoom for the day of: tinyurl.com/5n8mdpbb
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I'm super excited for this!
"Streaming Capital" -- Thomas Pringle at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, April 29, 2025 -- link and info below
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"Streaming Capital" -- Thomas Pringle at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, April 29, 2025 -- link and info below
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New special issue up for Media-N "As the World Burns: On Media and Climate" edited by the brilliant @beccauliasz and Corinna Kirsch; iopn.library.illinois.edu/jo…
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entries break ground on environmental media aesthetics across topics like cybernetics, population growth, the neganthropocene, Google Earth's rightwing politics, & sabotage
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June 5-6 at Caltech - details to come
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The special issue on Media Aesthetics with communication+1 is now available ! Ten articles, and one book review, on a range of topics: film, shutter buttons, software emulation, remediated horror, marginalia, rollercoasters, and much more. Find it here: openpublishing.library.umass…
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Very thrilled to be co-hosting this event with Weixian, featuring so many brilliant speakers working around the intersections of Environmental Media, Art, and Asia! It’s all online, and I hope some of you can join!
[update] Please join us on Oct 25-26 on Zoom! We are delighted to bring together an inspiring group of interdisciplinary scholars and artists to discuss the layered cultural and geopolitical history of the Asia Pacific. Full program and register via QR code/link in the poster!
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Two amazing releases today! -Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor by Lisa Yin Han. 🎧: New podcast episode w. Han, Jordan Kinder, and Thomas Pringle (@enonce): share.transistor.fm/s/53b648… -South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby: Now in paperback! 🥽
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This new article by @AmooreLouise @AlexCampolo et al looks fabulous! "A world model: On the political logics of generative AI," on "how generative AI gives rise to a model of the world & political logics and rationalities" (abbrev.) bit.ly/3KkxRAo
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