Mark B.N. Hansen (University of Chicago)
Mark B.N. Hansen is Professor of English and Cinema/Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan 2000), New Philosophy for New Media (MIT 2004), and Bodies in Code (Routledge 2006), as well as numerous essays on cultural theory, contemporary literature, and media. He has co-edited (with Taylor Carman) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty and is currently co-editing two volumes: Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W.J.T. Mitchell) and Neocybernetic Emergence (with Bruce Clarke).
His current projects include: The Politics of Presencing, a study of embodied human agency in the context of realtime media and computing, Becoming-Human, an ethics of the posthuman, and Fiction After Television, a study of the novel in the age of digital convergence.
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