Undead Labor: Capitalism’s Zombie Workers

University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming November 2026.

“Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois”

In “Surplus Data: On the New Life of Quantity,” special issue of Critical Inquiry, vol. 48, no. 2 (Winter 2022)

“Analogy in Ruins: Populism, Transgression, and the Zombie”

Culture Machine 19 (2020)

“Loops within Loops: Reflections on the Work of Marco Brambilla”

Flow, vol. 23, Special Issue: Loop Media. University of Texas Austin.

“The automaton in all of us: GIFs, cinemagraphs, and the films of Martin Arnold”

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2014), pp. 178–192

“Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive”

Flow, vol. 7. University of Texas Austin.

“A Philosophy of Refraction: Vilém Flusser’s Speculative Biology and the Study of Paramedia”

In Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, ed. Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael Miller. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

“Boutique Ethnicity: On African Ancestry and Neoliberal Economies of the Self”

In The Postcolonial World, ed. Jyotsna Singh and David D. Kim. New York and London: Routledge.

“In the Grip of the Past: Haunting, Possession, and Repetition in the Culture Industry”

Calibano no. 7: The turn of the screw / dove abita la paura

“Media Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19”

Themed week on “Pandemic Media,” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (April 2020)

“White Nostalgia”

In “Stranger Things and Nostalgia Now,” special cluster ed. Joel Burges and Jason Middleton, Post45 Contemporaries (July 2019)

“Necrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art” (parts I & II)

All the Russias, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (February 2018)

“Consuming Ourselves: Capitalism, Media, and the Zombie Apocalypse”

Los Angeles Review of Books, Special Issue (Fall 2013)

Review of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity by Brenda R. Weber

The Information Society, vol. 28, no. 1