Author: Jonathan Sterne

I can’t believe it! I’m actually on sabbatical! I’m in residence at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, MA September 2024-May 2025. I’m working on The Sound of AI: Audio, Culture, and the Politics of Machine Learning and Tuning Time: A History of Sound and Speed. There’s also a secret bonus text.… Continue reading Fall 2024

I’m working on getting some essays out the door before digging in on Tuning Time and The Sound of AI for sabbatical in the fall. I’m also taking July mostly off. In Sept 2024-May 2025 I’ll be on sabbatical and at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard.

I am teaching COMS 611: Critical Perspectives on Machine Listening and COMS 411: Disability, Technology, Communication. I am working on two coauthored books: The Sound of AI (coauthored with a group of people ) and Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed (co-authored with Mara Mills). I’m also slowly starting a new project on disabled… Continue reading Winter 2024

The pandemic continues but people pretend that it isn’t. I am teaching COMS 648: At the Interface and COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication. For my AI and Culture project I am working on papers about constructs of the human in sonic AI and a new approach to interfaces. I’m also starting a couple new… Continue reading Winter 2023

The pandemic continues but lost of people are pretending it isn’t. I am teaching COMS 210: Intro to Communication Studies in person for the first time in a long time and happy to be back in the classroom. I am giving talks related to my new book Diminished Faculties as well as on my project… Continue reading Fall 2022

Diminished Faculties is out in mid-December. In the meantime, you can read the introduction here. Pre-order it here. The pandemic continues. I am teaching COMS 210 online. Current projects include a couple papers on AI and culture, and my Tuning Time book with Mara Mills. I am not currently traveling for talks, though I am… Continue reading Fall 2021

Page proofs for Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment should be here in June-July, and the book will be available in December. I am working on a series of essays on AI, sound, and technology this summer; and with Mara Mills, Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. I cannot yet travel, but Montreal… Continue reading Summer 2021

It’s Covid time! And boy teaching online is a lot of work. Fall 2020 had me teaching COMS 210: Intro to Communication Studies (which I return to after a hiatus) and COMS 608: Sound Studies (this year’s topic: Instruments and Instrumentalities–cotaught with Emily Dolan at Brown). Winter 2021 I am teaching my course on Disability… Continue reading Fall 2020 and Winter 2021

Still on sabbatical, but now thanks to Covid, it’s a staybbatical. Compared to most of the world, I am very fortunate. I am revising Diminished Faculties and hope to get it back to the publisher by July. I am working on Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed with Mara Mills. I am trying to… Continue reading Summer 2020

I am on sabbatical! I am working on Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed with Mara Mills. I will spend a few weeks at the AI Now Institute in New York where I will learn some stuff. I will make, record, and mix music (not always in that order). When I get reviews back… Continue reading Winter 2020