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Conference Papers and Academic Presentations
“Miraculous Birth, Symbolic Murder: The Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence,” presented at the 25th Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, May 3, 2001.
“The Virtual Reality Novel and the Dynamics of the Virtual,” presented at the 22nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 23, 2001.
“A User’s Manual for Machinic Art,” presented (by invitation) at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 22, 2001.
“Vectors of the Virtual in New Media Theory,” presented (by invitation) to the departments of English and Comp Lit at Northwestern University, Evanston, Il., Feb. 9, 2001.
“When Machines Begin to Read: Information, Chaos and Complexity in Finnegans Wake,” The XVII International James Joyce Symposium, Goldsmiths College, June 26, 2000, London.
“Influencing Machines and Aufschreibesyteme: The Recording of Delirium,” presented (by invitation) at the University of California at Los Angeles on June 5, 2000, and Art Center Pasadena on June 6, 2000.
“Lacan and Cybernetics,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference on “Social Symptoms,” Columbia University, New York City, Oct. 29, 1999.
“Digital Darwinism: Artificial Life and Machinic Becoming,” presented (by invitation) at The University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 24, 1999.
“The Lure of the Post-Natural,” presented (by invitation) at Eyedrum Artists’ Collective, Atlanta, GA, June 3, 1999.
“Trajectories of the Posthuman: From Philip K. Dick to Linda Nagata” at the 20th International conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 19, 1999.
“Complexity Theory in Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction” at the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at the University of California, Riverside, Jan. 15, 1999.
“Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics,” presented (by invitation) to the Atlanta Institute of Psychoanalysis, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 18, 1998.
“Narratives of the Posthuman,” presented (by invitation) at the Nexus Center for Contemporary Art at Atlanta, GA, Nov. 17, 1998.
“Machinic Vision,” presented at the annual conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature at the University of California, Irvine, CA, May 6, 1998.
“Nanotech and Hive Mind in The Diamond Age,” presented at the annual Conference of American Culture/Popular Culture Association on April 8, 1998 in Orlando, FL.
“Human-Machine Systems in Contemporary Fiction,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 21, 1997.
“The Complexity of Bodies: Pat Cadigan’s Synners” 25th Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, Feb. 21, 1997.
“Computer Fiction: Narratives of the Machinic Phylum,” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 10, 1996.
“Cyberspace and the Machinic Phylum,” presented (by invitation) at the “Journee d’etude” on Literature and Cognition at the Universite de Lille III, France, May 4, 1996.
“Fictions of the Culture Medium: The Novels of Don DeLillo,” presented (by invitation) at the Universite de Paris VIII, Department d’etudes des pays anglophones, April 6, 1996.
“Media Assemblages in Contemporary American Fiction,” presented at the Society for Literature and Science Conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 3, 1995.
“Literature, Technology, Mediality,” presented at the “Interart: Studies: New Perspectives” Conference at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 18, 1995.
“Media and Mediality in Vineland and Neuromancer,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 18, 1995.
“James Joyce and Edouard Dujardin: Monologue Interieur Revisited,” presented (by invitation) at the Institut d’Anglais, Université de Paris VII, Nov. 24, 1994.
“Media Assemblages in Vineland,” presented (by invitation) at the Conference on
From Nervensprache to Fiber Optics: Literature Between Knowledge and Delirium,” presented (by invitation) to Public Domain, March 29, 1993, Atlanta, GA.
“Foucault’s Passions,” presented (by invitation) at “The Thinker from the Thought,” a colloquium sponsored by the Center for Language, Literature and Culture at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 3, 1993.
“Cool Delirium: Baudrillard’s Challenge to Cultural Theory,” presented (by invitation) at Pasadena Art Center, June 4, 1992.
“Jameson’s Hyperspace, Heidegger’s Rift, Frank Gehry’s House,” presented (by invitation) to the Atlanta Society of Architects, Feb. 4, 1993, Atlanta, Ga.
“Corporal and Conceptual Limits,” presented (by invitation) at the “Reassessing Postmodernism” Conference at the University of Washington, May 22, 1992.
“Genealogies of Modernity: Benjamin, Nietzsche, Foucault” (Part II of the above), presented at the Persons, Passions, Powers Conference at University of California at Berkeley, CA, May 2, 1992.
“Jameson’s Hyperspace, Heidegger’s Rift, Frank Gehry’s House,” presented (by invitation) at KLANG (an association of artists, art critics, and architects), Atlanta, GA, Nov. 22, 1991.
“Out of Bonds: The Decoded Couple,” presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 15, 1991.
“Theoretical Invention and the Contingency of Critique,” presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference on “Change” at the University of Montreal, May 17, 1991.
“Retreat and Return of the Origin,” presented (by invitation) at the Conference on “Discourses of/on Modernity” at the University of California at Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 1991.
“The Postmodern Novel as Multiplicity,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting at San Diego State University, CA, March 7-9, 1991.
“Wrapping Heidegger’s Rift: Displacement and Reinscription in Postmodern Theory amd Practice,” presented (by invitation) at the Pasadena Arts Center, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 20, 1990.
“Criticism and Theory,” presented (by invitation) at the Southeastern Conference on Regional Arts Criticism at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Oct.6, 1990.
Invited “Respondant” to the Conference on “The Voice in Contemporary American Fiction” at the University of Orleans (France), June 15, 1990.
“Corporal and Conceptual Limits: The Body Without Organs,” Conference on “Bodies: Image, Writing, Technology” at the University of California at Irvine, CA, April 28, 1990.
“The Semiotics of the Subject,” Chaired panel at Internation Association of Philosophy and Literature Convention at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, May 5, 1989.
“The Figure in Contemporary French Theory,” presented (by invitation) at the Pasadena Arts Center, Pasadena, CA, March 30, 1989.
“Visual and Discursive Inscription in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” presented (by invitation) to Atlanta High School English Teachers at Pope Pius IX High School, Atlanta, GA, on March 9, 1989.
“Self-Reflexive Pattern and Authorial Design in Muriel Spark’s Novels,” presented (by invitation) to Atlanta High School Teachers at Pope Pius X High School, Atlanta, GA, March 22, 1988.
“Post-cinematic Fiction: Pynchon, McElroy and DeLillo,” Conference on Film and Inter textuality, Florida State University, FL, January 29, 1988.
“Postmodern Directions in Theory and Fiction,” Conference on “Postmodernism texts, Politics, Instruction” sponsored by the International Association for Philosophy and Literature and the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, May 2, 1987.
“Ideolology, Post-structuralism and the Postmodern Subject,” Annual Convention of Southern Sociologists, Atlanta, GA, April 11, 1987.
“Generic Promiscuity in the Fiction of Don Delillo,” Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, Atlanta, GA, March 21, 1987.
“Pynchon’s Zone: A Postmodern Multiplicity,” English Department Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 3. 1986.
“Translation as Simulacrum,” delivered at the Modern Language Association convention at Chicago, IL, Dec. 29, 1985.
“Some Versions of Postmodernism,” delivered at Brown University, Providence, RI, Jan. 29, 1985.
“Walter Benjamin’s Allegorical Method,” delivered at California Institute of the Arts,” Nov. 9, 1984.
“The Use and Abuse of French Theory in Contemporary Art Criticism,” delivered at California Institute of the Arts, Jan. 31, 1983.
