talks

Forthcoming

‘TLDR: The Failure of the Internet Novel.’ Platform Blues: The Sad States of Social Media, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (University of Canberra) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), University of Canberra, Australia (November)

recent

‘Gimmick Surveillance: Espionage, Exposure, Entertainment.’ The 6th CRISP online seminar, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance & Privacy (November 2024)

Alice’s Adventures, Ambiguity & AI.’ AI & Other Scientific Fables. School of Cybernetics, Australian National University (July 2024)

‘The Eco-Algorithmic Unconscious: Borders, Surveillance, Contemporary Fiction.’ (with Keyvan Allahyari). Borders as Both Site and Method Conference, University of Melbourne (July 2024)

‘Internet, Novel, Form.’ Australian Literary Studies Convention, Order and Chaos, Sydney, Australia (July 2024)

‘Cute Surveillance: Intimacy Crisis and Loveable Machines in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes.’ The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference, Surveillance in an Age of Crisis, Ljubljana, Slovenia (May 2024)

‘I’m a dragon!’: Surveillance as Play.’ Center for Digital Narrative, Seminar Series. University of Bergen, Norway (May 2024)

‘Surveillant Subjectivity & Distributed Cognition in the Contemporary Social Media Novel.’ Literature & Science: Medical & Digital Humanities Seminar Series, Stuttgart University, Germany [online](May 2024)

‘Surveillance Aesthetics & Machinic Poetics in Contemporary Literary Fiction.’ Surveillance Imaginings Seminar Series, Sorbonne Université, Paris [online] (December 2023)

‘Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Facial Recognition in Contemporary Speculative Fiction.’ Panel on The Face as Setting: Virtuality and Embodiment of Affect. Presence of Virtuality Conference, Leipzig, Germany (October 2023).