Is that a turd or a fly?

Endorsements for Pulses of Abstraction are in! So excited and thankful for the generous reviews from Thomas Lamarre, Karen Redrobe, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. The book comes out on Dec. 15! upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

What is going to happen at the inauguration?

Law enforcement arrested 15 people today in D.C, according to NBC. 15. People were being arrested by the hundreds in Ferguson for peacefully protesting the killing of an unarmed black teenager.

NC State's CRDM 2021 symposium, Technologies of Race: Politics, Affect, Platforms will be held March 17-18. Details and free registration linked below. Featuring @blkmaterialist Rianka Singh thot leedurr @SorayaMurray. Feel free to circulate and join us! crdmsymposium2021.wordpress.ncsu.edu

Starting tomorrow!

I'm thrilled to announce that my first book will be published in Aug 2021 from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. Image Objects tells the prehistory of computer graphics through five objects that have fundamentally reshaped our computational culture. Available for pre-order now! mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-ob…

Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation is available at the #SCMS21 virtual book exhibit for U of MN Press. You can order it there for 40% off through July 1 using code MN87420. Thanks to all at the press for their work on this! upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

Looking forward to this with event with the more brilliant Gregory Zinman! Feel free to circulate and join us.

Come be my colleague! This is a wonderful opportunity for a scholar in African American Public Humanities. The best consideration date is coming on 12/5, but feel free to DM me or contact American Studies if you have any questions!

#SCMS22 #SCMS book sales will keep going for a while. U of MN Press 40% off sale uses code MN89020 for Pulses of Abstraction and others here: z.umn.edu/scms22 I miss that conference book room!

I was looking forward to my first academic conference in 3 years at SLSA at Purdue on Thursday. But I got my first positive Covid test today instead (with the rest of the family too). I’ll miss seeing everyone and hearing about all your work!

I've been fortunate to have good reviews of Pulses of Abstraction, but this one from Eric Herhuth in Animation is special not only because of the venue but because of how much I admire (and assign) Eric's own work. Thanks, Eric! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New review! Many thanks, Animation Studies and Andrew Connor for this generous review!