postmedieval Forum II: The State(s) of Review published
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11:37AM 
Rethinking the Digital Humanities in the Context of Originary Technicity
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 12:12PM Upcoming presentation: Network Archaeology Conference at Miami University
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 11:43AM The Distributed Sovereign: Political Affect and Network Protocols
This presentation excavates a more textured understanding of the concept of "the protocol." In contemporary networks and network studies, protocols refer to the horizontal and vertical translations that make possible the material enactments of data between hardware and software platforms (TCP/IP). The historical dimensions of social and political protocol reveal a performance of the power of sovereign control as a threshold of immediacy between the somatic and the social -- not in terms of slowed down forms of representation and communication but as a kind of reproductive, albeit momentary, immanence. An intersecting swerve between the above historical and contemporary registers of protocol is pursued through the specific framing protocol of "packet-switching": beginning with the atom as a fleshy, affectively transformative "packet" in 17th-century epicurean poetics, with a brief turn toward Marx's appropriation of this epicurean data-unit in his dissertation, and ending with some observations on contemporary network packet-switching in terms of political affect.
Lecture on crowd review @ HASTAC 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 11:17AM I will be giving a talk on the crowd review process for the postmedieval, becoming media, issue and the future of scholarly publishing at HASTAC 2011: Why Not Invite a Crowd?: The Open Scholarly Review Experiment for Postmedieval’s “Becoming Media.” More on the journal issue and the upcoming Forum on open/crowd peer revew here and here.
HASTAC 2011 Round-up (blogs, tweets, and video archives of keynotes)
