Bio

Dominic Pettman (PhD) is a writer and college professor, specializing in cultural theory and media. Over the past decade or so, he has taught his own undergraduate and (post)graduate courses at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Geneva, the University of Melbourne, and the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. He is currently Chair of the Culture and Media Department at Eugene Lang College, and also an Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research (New York City). In addition to academic work, Dominic writes and consults for animation studios and media companies, including Psyop and SelectNY.

His first book After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion was published by the State University of New York in 2002.

His second book, Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (co-written with Justin Clemens) was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2004.

His third book, Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age was published by Fordham University Press in 2006.

His fourth book, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines will be published in the Posthumanities Series of the University of Minnesota Press in 2011.

His fifth book, The Technopoetics of Capture will be published by Fordham in 2013 (Mayan apocalypse permitting).

He can be contacted at pettmand {at} newschool {dot} edu.