• Selected articles & chapters

• “Representation-Simulation-Generation,” Informatics of Domination, eds. Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee (Duke UP, forthcoming)

• “Borges and AI,” Poetics Today (forthcoming)

• “Rocket Theory,” for Left Theory and the Alt-Right, with Russell Samolsky (2023)

• “How to Do Things with Deep Learning Code,” with Minh Hua, Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue on Critical Code Studies (2023) [arXiv preprint]

• “Critical AI: A Field in Formation,” with Jennifer Rhee, American Literature 95:2 (2023)

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• “K-streams: Global Korea and the OTT Era,” with Eunjin Choi, Post45: Contemporaries, special issue on the “Hallyu Project” (2023)

• “Translation Degree Zero,” Time, Space, Matter in Translation, eds. Pamela Beattie, Simona Bertacco, and Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe (2022)

• “Does AI Have a Future?”, with Russell Samolsky, Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism (2021)

• “Playing With Unicorns: AI Dungeon and Citizen NLP,” with Minh Hua, Digital Humanities Quarterly 14.4 (2020)

• “Out of Control,” symplokē 28:1-2 (2020)

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• “Red Dot Sight,” with Colin Milburn, The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk, eds. Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar (2020)

• “Inter Alia: Aliens and AI,” with Russell Samolsky, Public 59 (2019)

• “Algorithmic Translations,” CR: The New Centennial Review (2016)

• “The Ordinary Arts of Political Activism,” Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21^st Century, ed. Peter Weibel (2015)

• “Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes,” differences (2014)

• “Dataveillance and Countervailance,” “Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron, ed. Lisa Gitelman (2013)

• “TXTual Practice,” Comparative Textual Media, eds. N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman (2013)

• “Another Kind of Global English,” minnesota review (2012)

• “‘Living Letterforms’: The Ecological Turn in Contemporary Digital Poetics,” Contemporary Literature (2011)

• “Walk This Way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience,” Beyond the Screen, eds. Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla (2010)

• “Mobile Media Poetics,” Digital Arts and Culture (2009)

• “List(en)ing Post,” Literary Art in Digital Performance, ed. Francisco Ricardo (2009)

• “Code.surface || Code.depth,” dichtung-digital (2007)

• “eEmpires,” Cultural Critique 57 (2004)

• “Machine Translation and Global English,” The Yale Journal of Criticism (2003)

• “Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework,” ebr (2002)

• “Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance,” Postmodern Culture (2001)

• “A Teleology of Letters; or, From a ‘Common Source’ to a Common Language,” Romantic Circles (2000)

• “Cadmus Britannicus: Between Language and literature in British India,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (2000)

• “On Global English and the Transmutation of Postcolonial Studies into ‘Literature in English‘,” Diaspora (1999)

• Selected editorial work

• With Jennifer Rhee, co-edited special issue of American Literature on “Critical AI” (2023)

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• With Paul Benzon, co-edited special issue of ASAP/Journal on “Inscriptive Studies” (2022)

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• With Christine Mitchell, co-edited special issue of Amodern on “Translation-Machination” (2018)

• With Louise Amoore, co-edited special issue of Security Dialogue on “Securing with algorithms: Knowledge, decision, sovereignty” (2017)

• Editor: “Writing.3D,” The Iowa Review Web (September 2006) [introduction]

• Selected interviews & dialogues

• Interview with Squid Game production designer Chae Kyoung-sun (Carsey-Wolf Center Global TV series, 2022)

• “50% Laughter, 50% Despair: A Dialogue with Jarett Kobek,” ASAP/Journal 5:3 (2020)

• “Love.abz and the Task of the Machine Translator” (interview with Otso Huopaniemi), Amodern (2018)

• “Tactical Humanities”: interview with Roy Christopher (2017)

• Dialogue with John Cayley for “white cube blue sky” (2005)

• “Of Dolls and Monsters: An Interview with Shelley Jackson,” The Iowa Review Web (2002)

• Selected reviews, responses, short-form publications

• “Against AI?” (with Russell Samolsky), for Critical Inquiry online, Again Theory: A Forum on Language, Meaning, and Intent in the Time of Stochastic Parrots (2023)

• The Book: 101 Definitions, ed. Amaranth Borsuk (Anteism, 2021)

• “Delete Your Accounts” (review of Jaron Lanier), American Book Review (2019)

• The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities (MLA 2013), in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 (U Minnesota)

• “Outsourced Poetics” (review of Nick Thurston), American Book Review (2014)

• “Hypermarks Revisited,” “Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process,” MediaCommons: The New Everyday (2012)

• Selected projects, initiatives, and grants

• Critical Machine Learning Studies, with Fabian Offert, UCHRI working group (2021-2023)

• Reading and Attention, Arnhold Undergraduate Research Project (2019)

• Cross-institutional reading project: The Familiar, Volume 1 (Winter 2015) [review of The Familiar in LARB, June 2015]

• Prototyping Futures/Occupying the Present (Piet Zwart Institute, 2015)

• Humanist Enterprises: Institutions, Practices, Media (Scalar, 2013) [no public link]

• Speculative Futures: Critical Perspectives on Risk, Uncertainty, and Security (2011-12)

• Speculative Globalities (UCHRI, 2009)

• Archived courses

• Machine Reading & Writing (Fall 2016)

• Media Theory of/for the Present (Winter 2016)

• Distracted Reading (Spring 2015)

• Bookwork after New Media (Spring 2012)

• Narratives of War (Winter 2012)

• Literature & Biotechnology (Winter 2011)

• Social Media (Winter 2010)

Selected Lectures

• • “The Asemic at the End of the World” (MLA 2017)
• • “Machine Writing: Translation, Generation, Automation,” Electronic Literature Organization, University of Porto (July 2017)
• • “Courseware.com,” Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (May 2013)
• • “Disintegrated Reading,” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities” (February 2013)
• • “The Time of Codework” (PechaKucha), Softwhere 2008, UC San Diego