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Mark B. N. Hansen teaches cultural theory and comparative media studies in the English department and is on the Committee for Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology beyond Writing (Michigan 2000) and New Philosophy for New Media (MIT 2004), as well as numerous essays on cultural theory, contemporary literature, and media. His essay, "The Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life" appeared in Critical Inquiry in Spring, 2004. He has coedited (with Taylor Carman) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty and is currently coediting two volumes: Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W. J. T. Mitchell) and Neocybernetic Emergence (with Bruce Clarke). His current projects include: The Politics of Presencing, a study of embodied human agency in the context of real-time media and computing, Becoming Human, an ethics of the posthuman, and Fiction after Television, a study of the novel in the age of digital convergence.
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