Feature-length interviews with prominent scholars in media, culture, and the humanities.
A Feature Interview with Tanya E. Clement
Jason Camlot, Tanya E. Clement
Tanya Clement’s recent book Dissonant Records offers an important and welcome intervention in technologically conscious research that aims to engage with literature beyond the printed or manuscript page. Clement’s contribution to the burgeoning field of literary sound studies is unique for its function as “a form of advocacy for the continued, responsible use of historical audio artifacts in literary study” formulated through the theorization and explication of “close listening as... Read more...
A Feature Interview with Bruno Latour
Heather Davis, Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is one of the most widely recognized intellectuals of our time. His work on modernity has influenced scholars in every field of the social sciences and humanities and has involved ongoing collaborations with scientists and artists. In his most recent project, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
A Feature Interview with Wolfgang Ernst
Ghislain Thibault, Wolfgang Ernst
Wolfgang Ernst is a leading voice in the field of media archaeology, a research area that has attracted interest for its theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media. Ernst’s main contribution to media archaeology in the recent years has been a radical critique of history through a reflection on media temporalities. In this interview, Ernst proposes to understand media archaeology as an “exercise” for media studies scholars, a mode... Read more...
A Feature Interview with Rosi Braidotti
Heather Davis, Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a force of nature-culture. Her work since Patterns of Difference and extending through her trilogy, which includes Nomadic Subjects, Metamorphosis and Transpositions, has been vital to a resurgence of feminist, anti-racist and materialist thought. Her incredibly prolific career – which spans multiple languages – engages with the material realities of politics within the frame of a feminist, Spinozist ethics. This is one of her many great contributions:... Read more...
A Feature Interview with Jerome J. McGann
Jerome J. McGann, Scott Pound
No scholar has done more than Jerome McGann to expand our understanding of the nature of print and digital media. His experience as an editor of print media during the 70s and the 80s resulted in a drive to rehistoricize editorial practice that has revolutionized textual scholarship. In the early 90s, he began to survey a digital future that would involve the colossal task of reconstructing the entirety of our cultural inheritance for display on digital networks. For McGann, the question we face is not so much how we get on with the future, but “What kind of research and educational program can integrate the preservation and study of these two radically different media?” Read more...
A Feature Interview with Alan Liu
Scott Pound, Alan Liu
Feature interview with Alan Liu on digital humanities and network archaeology.
