Author: Jonathan Sterne

I am teaching COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication (and a secret reading course). I am hoping to send off an imperfect draft of Diminished Faculties for review mid-semester. I am starting a new project on AI and culture. My cancer drug adventures continue.

Research leave! I am mostly in Montreal. I am working on my book Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. Summer 2019, I will return to my co-authored book with Mara Mills, Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed, and plan to spend June 2019 in Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for the History… Continue reading Summer 2019

Research leave! I am mostly in Montreal, with side trips to New York City (AI Now), São Paulo (Sonologia), and Los Angeles (UCLA talk and NAMM). I am working on my book Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. Summer 2019, I will return to my co-authored book with Mara Mills, Tuning Time: Histories of… Continue reading Winter 2019

I am mostly in Montreal teaching COMS 411: Disability, Technology, and Communication. There will be trips to Penn State, the University of Chicago, Northwestern (Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies), Atlanta (American Studies), Oslo. I am submitting a SSHRC Insight Grant application on artificial intelligence and culture. Winter term, I will be returning full time… Continue reading Fall 2018

Mostly in Montreal with a 2 week tour of Europe in June and some vacation. I’m working on a paper on AI and mastering (co-authored with Elena Razlogova), a SSHRC grant application, and an essay on my voice, among other things. I will return to Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed (co-authored with Mara… Continue reading Summer 2018

I am in residence as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in the Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Group. With Mara Mills, I will be completing a co-written book manuscript tentatively titled The Speed of Sound: Sequences from the History of Time-Stretching and Pitch Shifting (or is it Tuning… Continue reading Fall 2017

I am in Montreal mostly, transitioning into sabbatical, which officially begins on 1 July. In fall term I will be in residence as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in the Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Group. There, with Mara Mills, I will be completing a co-written book manuscript… Continue reading Summer 2017