a list of books, articles, projects, and other things
by grant bollmer
THE INFLUENCER FACTORY: A MARXIST THEORY OF CORPORATE PERSONHOOD ON YOUTUBE
(COAUTHORED WITH KATHERINE GUINNESS)
“Influencers...achieve wealth, fame, and luxury by imagining themselves and acting not as individuals but as if their existence is equivalent to that of a vertically integrated corporation, a context in which rights and abilities are denied human citizens and transferred to corporate entities...”
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(COAUTHORED WITH KATHERINE GUINNESS)
“Influencers...achieve wealth, fame, and luxury by imagining themselves and acting not as individuals but as if their existence is equivalent to that of a vertically integrated corporation, a context in which rights and abilities are denied human citizens and transferred to corporate entities...”
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APRIL 2024
THE AFFECT LAB: THE HISTORY AND LIMITS OF MEASURING EMOTION
“Knowledge of the affects exists only as bodies are processed through a medium. Yet techniques of observation, inscription, and identification serve to invent that which is observed, inscribed, identified. The techniques of the Affect Lab precede and produce the affects they identify.”
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“Knowledge of the affects exists only as bodies are processed through a medium. Yet techniques of observation, inscription, and identification serve to invent that which is observed, inscribed, identified. The techniques of the Affect Lab precede and produce the affects they identify.”
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AUG 2023
MATERIALIST MEDIA THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
“Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding media's materiality.”
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“Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding media's materiality.”
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SEPT 2019
신유물론과 유물론: 미디어의 물질성에 대하여
[New Materialism and Materialism: On the Materiality of Media]
Korean translation of Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction
Translated by Kim Soo-cheol
[New Materialism and Materialism: On the Materiality of Media]
Korean translation of Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction
Translated by Kim Soo-cheol
MAY 2024
THEORIZING DIGITAL CULTURES
“[D]igital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment.”
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“[D]igital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment.”
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SEPT 2018
INHUMAN NETWORKS
“[C]ontemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where ‘the human’ is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.”
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“[C]ontemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where ‘the human’ is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.”
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AUG 2016
NETWORKED LIMINALITY
“Rather than networked connectivity, networked liminality allows us to foreground the thresholds, oppositions, processes, and movements that make up networked subjectivity.“
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“Rather than networked connectivity, networked liminality allows us to foreground the thresholds, oppositions, processes, and movements that make up networked subjectivity.“
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SEPT 2020