| Fields of Study: |
Media and Cultural Studies |
| Education: |
PhD: Institute of Communications Research,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Research Interests: |
Critical cultural studies; social and political theory; popular culture. |
| Publications, Presentations, Projects of Interest: |
My opening remarks at a Left Forum panel on the Left and Conspiracy 
Book Chapters and Articles (see bottom of page for pdfs)  “Programming Reality: Control Societies, New Subjects, and the Powers of Transformation” Makeover Television: Realities Remodeled
Editor: Dana Heller
(I.B. Tauris, 2007; pp. 6-22)
“Activating the Multitude: Audience Powers and Cultural Studies” in 
New Directions in American Reception Study, Editors: Philip Goldstein and Jim Machor
(Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Fragments on Machinic Intellectuals”
Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization
Editors: Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber
(AK Press, 2007; pp. 137-154) 
“Apocryphal Now Redux”
Contesting Empire/Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies after 9/11
Editors: Norman K. Denzin and Michael Giardinia
(Paradigm Press, 2007; pp. 264-279)
“Making Politics Reasonable: Rationality and Ideology in the Problematization of Paranoia"
Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality . Editors: Jack Z. Bratich, Jeremy Packer, and Cameron McCarthy. (SUNY Press, 2003, pp. 67-100). 
“Governing the Present” (with Cameron McCarthy and Jeremy Packer)
Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality
Editors: Jack Z. Bratich, Jeremy Packer, and Cameron McCarthy.
(SUNY Press, 2003, pp.3-21)
“Injections and Truth Serums: AIDS Conspiracy Theories and the Politics of Articulation”
Conspiracy Nation. 
Editor: Peter Knight
(New York University Press, 2002, pp. 137-156). Journal Articles “Summer of Double Super Secrecy: Public Secret Spheres, Evidence, and Cultural Strategies”
Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies (7:2, May 2007, 118-131)
“Popular Secrecy and Occultural Studies”
Cultural Studies (21:1 January 2007, 42-58) Temporary Guantanomous Zones: Reality Camps and Crucibles FlowTV (5:7, January 2007) “Public Secrecy and Immanent Security: A Strategic Analysis”
Cultural Studies (20:4-5, July/September 2006, 493-511)
"Nothing is left Alone for too long": Reality Programming and
Making Malleable Subjects in Control Societies”
Journal of Communication Inquiry (30:1, Jan. 2006, 65-83)
"Amassing the Multitude: Revisiting Early Audience Studies"
Communication Theory (15:3, August 2005)
“Trust No-one (on the Internet): The CIA-Crack-Contra Conspiracy Theory
and Professional Journalism”
Television and New Media (5:2, May 2004, 109-139)
"The Knowledge Gangsters: African American Conspiracy Theories, Political Rationality, and the Governance of Dissent"
Information, Theory, and Society (1:1, 2002, 91-108)
“Drawing a Line in the Fog: Post 9/11”
Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies (2:2, May 2002) Online essays and other publications “Becoming-Seattle: the State of Activism and the (Re)activity of the State”
Fifth Estate (#374, Winter 2007) “Eyes Put a Spell on You”
Counterpunch newsletter (9/13/06) "Secreting the News: Anonymous vs. Confidential Sources”
Counterpunch newsletter (8/13/05)
“Fingerprints of Power: Summer of Double Super Secrecy”
Counterpunch newsletter (7/30/05)
“2 Live Cruise: Tom Cruise vs. Big Pharma”
Counterpunch newsletter (7/12/05) “Swarmcession!”
Lumpen Magazine #96 (July 2005) pp. 20-25
“I’ve got you under my skin: Digging Kerry Out and Burying the Bones(men)”
Counterpunch newsletter (11/19/04)
"Art of Darkness: The Abu Ghraib Effect"
Interactivist Information Exchange (05/07/04) |
