happenings


  • Haptic ambiguities: tracing touch in medical media technologies

    On Thursday, July 18th, I will present work on haptics and surgical robotics as part of the panel, “Haptic revolutions: sensory futures and phenomenologies of expertise in medical worlds” organized by Denisa Butnaru (University of Konstanz) and Taina Kinnunen (University of Oulu) for EASST/4S in Amsterdam, NL.

  • the da Vinci: A (Dis)abling machine of 21st century medicine

    Excited to have this piece on disability, media, and technology published in PuntoOrg International Journal https://www.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/article/view/188 Abstract: This paper analyzes the da Vinci surgical system as a media technology situated intrinsically, while not expressively, as an assistive media technology, marketed and designed with an “ideology of ability” (Siebers, 2008) at its core. From trademarks to…

  • Human Machine Culture

    As part of the Institute of Policy, Ethics, and Culture at Michigan Technological University, I am starting a research group called Human Machine Culture focused on the historical and developing dynamics between humans and machines: the ways humans and communicative machines sense and make sense of the world together, and the cultural impacts of those…