About Me

I am a scholar of the contemporary, with special interests in how literature and film work together with current events and popular culture to articulate the terms by which reality is perceived. 

I have published on the Holocaust, American Slavery, the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, online activism, hacking, and the contemporary extreme. More about me

 

  • Naomi Mandel. Photo by Bruno Shalit. Used with permission.

    Naomi Mandel

    Photo by Bruno Shalit. Used with permission.

  • Spacewar! Image by David K. Stone

    Spacewar! (1962): the first interactive computer game

    David K. Stone's image of Spacewar! accompanied Joseph P. Goodavage's article about the game in Saga Magazine (1972)

  • The Hacker Ethic. Steven Levy's codification of the values of hacker culture in his 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

    The Hacker Ethic

    Steven Levy's codification of the values of hacker culture in his 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

  • "Earth Slaves To Space." Amazing Stories 20.6 cover painting by Robert Gibson Jones.

    "Earth Slaves To Space." Painting by Robert Gibson Jones

    The front cover of Amazing Stories (1946) depicts interaction with screen images decades before the technology became mainstream

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