1. The Sound Studies Reader, under contract with Routledge. An anthology of previously published scholarly work on sound, with an emphasis on North America and on media.

2. “Enemy Voice”—an article on the circulation of recordings of Osama bin Laden’s voice in the U.S. media. Under revision and due to be submitted sometime in 2006 or early 2007.

3. The Failed Failed Media Project. I’d originally conceived this as a series of studies that would hang together as a history of 20th century media technology that wasn’t driven by a narrative of progress. IE, as a book. Alas, the project itself seems to have stalled for now. An essay on computer obsolescence will be appearing in an edited volume called Residual Media and an essay on an attempt to deliver mail by cruise missile will be finished sometime after I get the current book and collection off my desk.

4. Media and the Good Life. Actually, this project doesn’t have a real name. In a wide range of projects and publications I’ve been considering the question of how one thinks normatively and progressively about the form of media in large-scale societies. An early statement of this line of thought can be found in the conclusion to The Audible Past and more recent versions can be found in my contributions to the edited volumes Communication As… and The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies.

Other emerging interests:

the postal system
new work in long-term historiography (work that covers 100 or more years)
the cultural politics of time and the status of leisure in cultural critique