About

Amodern is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics. Its purpose is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary conversations about the role of media and technology in contemporary cultural practices. We are particularly interested in those topics that normally escape scrutiny, or are ignored or excluded for whatever reason.

The journal is distinguished by its focus on poetics as a scholarly practice, with particular emphasis on the unruly ways that people deploy media and technology behind, beneath, and despite their instrumental functions. Against the grain of determinism, we hope to attract work that bears witness to media as complex assemblages of institutions, subjects, bodies, objects, and discourses.

Amodern publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, interviews, reports, art, and a variety of audio, video, and archival materials. Issues of the journal are organized around specific topics and themes. Amodern currently appears twice annually. For more information on contributing to Amodern, please visit the Contribute page.

Amodern is published jointly out of Concordia University and Lakehead University. The editors gratefully acknowledge support from the following sources:

Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2) Concordia Aid to Research-Related Events Grant Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic (Lakehead University) Office of the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities (Lakehead University) Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture, aig+c (Lakehead University)

Editors Scott Pound, Lakehead University Darren Wershler, Concordia University Michael Nardone, Université de Montréal

**Programmer **Max Stein, Concordia University

**Advisory Board **Johanna Drucker, UCLA Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Lisa Gitelman, NYU Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara Jerome McGann, University of Virginia Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University (Emerita) Brian Rotman, Ohio State University Will Straw, McGill University

Editorial Board Jason Camlot, Concordia University cris cheek, Miami University Jeff Derksen, Simon Fraser University Craig Dworkin, University of Utah Lori Emerson, University of Colorado Jonathan Finn, Wilfred Laurier University John Maxwell, Simon Fraser University Christine Mitchell, NYU Nick Montfort, MIT Sianne Ngai, Stanford University Bart Simon, Concordia University Matt Soar, Concordia University Braxton Soderman, University of California, Irvine Nicole Starosielski, New York University