Critique as Care: David Golumbia and the Forms and Functions of Digital Studies
April 11, 2025
Start time: 1:00 p.m.
End time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: STEM Building, Room 202 (817 W Franklin St) and via Zoom
Description
Join the HRC and the Department of English in honoring David Golumbia (1963-2023) through a discussion of his book, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology, and the new projects his works have inspired. Zoom option is available.
David Golumbia (1963–2023) taught in the English Department and the Media, Art, and Text PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was the author of The Cultural Logic of Computation, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology, and many articles on digital culture, language, and literary studies and theory.
Discussants
- Adin Lears, “Cryptocurrency and the Elixir of Life”
- Rian Johnson, “There Are No Good Games: Deconstructing Canonicity in Video Game
Studies” - Caddie Alford, “Corecore and the Epideictic Call to Care”
- Paul Robertson, “Blood and Soil in the Mountains: Appalachian Ethnic Identification and
the Alt-Right” - Norberto Gomez, “TV Buddha and the Algorithmic Self: Post-Anarchist, Buddhist, and Queer Ecological Critiques of Digital Necropolitics”
- Frankie Mastrangelo, TBA
- Jonathan Nichols, TBA