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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

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