Dominic Pettman is a cultural theorist and author. He is University Professor of Media and New Humanities a
The New School teaching within the
Culture and Media programa
Eugene Lang Collegeand also th
Liberal Studies Programat th
New School for Social Research(New York). He has held previous positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Amsterdam. Pettman's work combines cultural studies, critical media studies, and philosophical approaches concerning topics ranging from new media, popular culture, affect theory, sound studies, and animal studies.
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Books
Sad Planets(Polity, 2024 - with
Eugene Thacker).
Peak Libido: Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire(Polity, 2020)
The Humid Condition: More Overheated Observations(Punctum, 2020)
Metagestures(Punctum, 2019 - with Carla Nappi)
Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human(University of Minnesota, 2017)
Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics(Stanford University Press, 2017)
Infinite Distraction(Polity, Theory Redux series, 2015)
Humid, All Too Humid(Punctum, 2016)
In Divisible Cities(Dead Letter Office / Punctum Books, 2013) . . . . + full-text
website
Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013)
Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines(University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
(Fordham University Press, 2006)
Internationalizing Cultural Studies (co-editor, Blackwells, 2004)
(with Justin Clemens, AUP, 2004)
After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion(SUNY Press, 2002)
Articles (selected)
Netflix and Chills: On Digital Distraction During the Global Quarantine"(boundary 2, 2020)
The Mole and the Serpent: a Totemic Approach to Societies of Control"(Coils of the Serpent, 2020)
The Species Without Qualities: Critical Media Theory and The Posthumanities"(boundary 2, 2019)
Get Thee to a Phalanstery, or How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade"(Public Domain Review, 2019)
Remember Baudrillard: On the Ecstasies of Posthumous Communication"(Public Seminar, 2018)
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ust Another Manic Monad: Of Glass, Bees, and Glass Bees"Discourse (2017).
Some Remarks on the Legacy of Madame Francine Descartes" (Public Domain Review)
Libidinal Ecology: Sex and the Anthropocene"(Public Seminar, 2015)
The Nude in the Library"(Public Seminar, 2015)
The Screech Within Speech"(Sounding Out, 2015)
Lulu and the Centaur: Photographic Traces of Creaturely Love"(Necsus, 2015)
Wings of Desire: When Tesla Fell in Love with a Pigeon"(Cabinet, 2015)
The Tumblrst Tumblr, or How I Found the Angel of History Trapped on the Flypaper of Social Media"(Los Angeles Review of Books, 2014)
MOOCs: Herding Education to the Slaughter"(Mute Magazine, 2014)
The Noble Cabbage: A Review of Michael Marder's Plant-Thinking"(Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013)
So You Think You Can Think: How I Taught a Class on Reality TV by Turning It Into a Reality TV Competition"(Inside Higher Ed, 2013)
*"Tolstoy’s Bestiary: Animality and Animosity in The Kreutzer Sonata" (Angelaki, 2013)
*"Pavlov’s Podcast: The Acousmatic Voice in the Age of MP3s" (differences, 2012)
*"After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life" (boundary 2, 2010)
*"Grizzly Man: Werner Herzog’s Anthropological Machine” (Theory and Event, 2009)
*"Love in the Time of Tamagotchi” (Theory, Culture & Society, 2009)
*"A Belated Invitation to the Orgy: The Complex Legacy of Jean Baudrillard,"
ntroduction to new edition of''Fatal Strategies''. (Semiotext(e), 2008).
See also
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Animal Studies
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Cultural Studies
Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
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Media Studies
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...
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Philosophy of Technology
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard ( , , ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as w ...
References
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External links
Dominic Pettman's Homepage(includes links to essays and articles)
The New School faculty bio page, Dominic Pettman"The Internet as Playground and Factory" - video Video Vortex Conference, Ankara, Turkey (2008)
"Love Me, Love My Avatar" - video Paper Tiger TV show
A Taxonomy of Bruises Cabinet Magazine, issue 39 (2010)
"In Divisible Cities" Full-Text Interactive Website (2013)
A Horse Is Being Beaten, Nietzsche Workshop IV, Parsons/The New School (2013) (starts at 35:00 min)
Interviewed by Carla Nappi New Books Network: Science and Technology Studies (2013).
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Living people
Mass media theorists
The New School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)