“There are no longer any ghosts who can remind the living of reciprocity. But in the order organized by the power of knowledge (ours), as in the order of the countryside or the factories, a diversionary practice remains possible.” -- de Certeau
Visiting Assistant Professor of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University.
I write about everyday life, videogames, and fantasy.
I teach critical media studies and transmedial speculative fiction.
I study the intersections of videogames, software, non-mimetics, digitality, transnational popular culture, and textuality.
I am interested in the interactions between agents and objects that generate, manage, and propagate power on the level of the everyday and the limits of what is and what could be everyday.
I am also interested in 2000s popular culture, Weird Internet, organized crime dramas, the cultural logic of anime, American football fandom, shanzhai culture, and my cat, Daniel.