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Review: Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose, by Leigh Cowart

http://www.technoccult.net/2021/11/13/review-hurts-so-good-leigh-cowart/

Published: November 13, 2021 23:38

In academic circles, we have a half-joking-but-not-really saying: “All Research Is Me-Search,” and Leigh Cowart’s new book has taken that dictum to titanic new heights and visceral, evocative depths. Cowart is a former ballet dancer, a biologist who…

Affect and Artificial Intelligence and The Fetish Revisited

http://www.technoccult.net/2020/03/31/affect-and-artificial-intelligence-and-the-fetish-revisited/

Published: March 31, 2020 14:42

Elizabeth A Wilson’s Affect and Artificial Intelligence traces the history and development of the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in the West, from the 1950’s to the 1990’s and early 2000’s to argue that the key thing missing from all attempts to…

Criptiques and A Dying Colonialism

http://www.technoccult.net/2020/03/25/criptiques-and-a-dying-colonialism/

Published: March 25, 2020 15:10

Caitlin Wood’s 2014 edited volume Criptiques consists of 25 articles, essays, poems, songs, or stories, primarily in the first person, all of which are written from disabled people’s perspectives. Both the titles and the content are meant to be provocative…

Selfhood, Coloniality, African-Atlantic Religion, and Interrelational Cutlure

http://www.technoccult.net/2020/03/18/selfhood-coloniality-african-atlantic-religion-and-interrelational-cutlure/

Published: March 18, 2020 14:05

In Ras Michael Brown’s African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry Brown wants to talk about the history of the cultural and spiritual practices of African descendants in the American south. To do this, he traces discusses the transport of…

Cyborg Theology and An Anthropology of Robots and AI

http://www.technoccult.net/2020/03/13/cyborg-theology-and-an-anthropology-of-robots-and-ai/

Published: March 13, 2020 23:25

Scott Midson’s Cyborg Theology and Kathleen Richardson’s An Anthropology of Robots and AI both trace histories of technology and human-machine interactions, and both make use of fictional narratives as well as other theoretical techniques. The goal of…

Bodyminds, Self-Transformations, and Situated Selfhood

http://www.technoccult.net/2019/10/11/bodyminds-self-transformations-and-situated-selfhood/

Published: October 11, 2019 04:30

Back in the spring, I read and did a critical comparative analysis on both Cressida J. Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies, and Dr. Sami Schalk’s BODYMINDS REIMAGINED: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s…

Colonialism and the Technologized Other

http://www.technoccult.net/2019/07/10/colonialism-and-the-technologized-other/

Published: July 10, 2019 22:46

One of the things I’m did this past spring was an independent study—a vehicle by which to move through my dissertation’s tentative bibliography, at a pace of around two books at time, every two weeks, and to write short comparative analyses of the texts.…

Review of Nick Harkaway’s GNOMON

http://www.technoccult.net/2019/01/06/review-of-nick-harkaways-gnomon/

Published: January 6, 2019 10:32

Last year, I was given and read Nick Harkaway’s GNOMON, and I’ve wanted to take a little time to describe to you why you should read it, if you haven’t already. GNOMON starts with an investigator in London looking into the death of someone in the course of…

Pieces on Machine Consciousness

http://www.technoccult.net/2018/05/15/pieces-on-machine-consciousness/

Published: May 15, 2018 17:26

Late last month, I was at Theorizing the Web, in NYC, to moderate Panel B3, “Bot Phenomenology,” in which I was very grateful to moderate a panel of people I was very lucky to be able to bring together. Johnathan Flowers, Emma Stamm, and Robin Zebrowski…

Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s TECHNOLOGY AND THE VIRTUES

http://www.technoccult.net/2018/05/10/technomoral-interrelations/

Published: May 10, 2018 14:09

[“Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues” was originally published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 2 (2018): 64-69. The pdf of the article gives specific page references.…