a list of books, articles, projects, and other things
by grant bollmer

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.”
Read more...
“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.”
Read more...
AUG 2023
MATERIALIST MEDIA THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
“Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding media's materiality.”
Read more...
“Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding media's materiality.”
Read more...
SEPT 2019
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.”
Read more...
“[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.”
Read more...
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.”
Read more...
“[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.”
Read more...
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.“
Read more...
“Rather than networked connectivity, networked liminality allows us to foreground the thresholds, oppositions, processes, and movements that make up networked subjectivity.“
Read more...
SEPT 2020