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Andrew Lison

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About

I am a theorist and historian of digital media, currently Assistant Professor of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. I have begun to explore Geminispace out of some strange combination of professional curiosity and personal nostalgia for a time before the web (or at least a time before the web came to dominate the Internet out of which it came into being).

My present work focuses on a contemporary sense of letdown with the promises of the Internet and digital media more broadly. I’ve explored this from a number of angles, including the effacement of action by symbolic encoding via information theory, the enervating effects of a proliferation of digitized multimedia information, melancholy for the rave culture of the early ’90s, and the looming end to Moore’s Law and with it the vertiginous ride on which the growth of silicon-based computing has taken us over the past sixty years.

I explore the history that has lead us to this present conuncture while (hopefully) avoiding the trap of straighforward nostalgia. Gemini seems like a particularly good platform for doing this, given both its minimal and what might even be called “retro” approach to information presentation and its simultaneous insistence on incorporating some of the latest developments in communication technology, e.g. encryption and character set encoding—😉. While the main avenue for me to explore these themes is the book I am currently writing, I will also occasionally make notes addressing these and other topics in a gemlog I will start as soon as I get some free time!

Selected Publications

Computational Culture article link

Recent Talks

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Many thanks to the Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency for hosting

Updated 07.15.2021