EUGENE THACKER
Associate Professor
School of Literature, Communication & Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
eugene[DOT]thacker[AT]lcc[DOT]gatech[DOT]edu

VITA


NEWS

• I wrote an essay with Alex Galloway entitled "On Narcolepsy" that is included in the anthology Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture, edited by Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson.

• My essay "Biophilosophy for the 21st Century" has been translated into Spanish for the magazine Aminima. Also, my essay "Networks, Swarms, Multitudes" has been translated into German and is included in the anthology Schwärme - Kollektive ohne Zentrum, edited by Eva Horn and Lucas Marco Gisi. Both essays were originally published in the journal Ctheory.

• I was commissioned by the Sala Parpalló gallery to write an essay for a catalogue on the work of Daniel Canogar. The essay, entitled "Exobiologies," is now published in English and Spanish in the catalogue Daniel Canogar - Otras Biologías.

• My short reviews for Leonardo continue. The most recent is a review of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay.


PUBLICATIONS

"After Life: De anima and Unhuman Politics", Radical Philosophy vol. 155 (2009).

"Swarming: Number vs. Animal?" Deleuze and New Technology, ed. David Savat and Mark Poster. University of Edinburgh Press, 2009.

"Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror", Collapse vol. IV, "Concept Horror" (2008). The entire issue can be downloaded here.

"Biophilosophy for the 21st Century," Critical Digital Studies, ed. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, University of Toronto Press, 2008. View the book info here.


THE EXPLOIT, co-authored with Alexander Galloway, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
The book is now in its third printing. View the publisher's info here.
The Exploit was recently reviewed by Tiziana Terranova for Radical Philosophy
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TEACHING

FALL 2009
Supernatural Horror | ENGL1102 | syllabus
Biomedicine and Culture | LCC3318 | syllabus

SPRING 2008
The End of the World | LCC3214 | syllabus
Haunted Media | LCC6316 | syllabus