Adam Nocek
Assistant professor in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University
I am interested in being considered for the position of member at large in the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. I have been presenting papers and chairing panels at the SLSA since my first years in graduate school at the University of Washington; this experience has helped me to build strong networks (of scholars and practitioners) that have been vital to my academic career. It is thanks to enriching and sustained intellectual engagements at the SLSA that I was able to land my first tenure-track position in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University in 2015. Since that time, I co-organized the 2017 SLSA in Tempe, Arizona and continue to present papers, chair panels, and participate on roundtables at annual conferences. In 2018, I became the founding director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies at ASU (which works at the intersection of STS, design, and art methods). If elected, I would leverage this administrative position to help foster new intellectual and institutional partnerships with the SLSA organization.
He has published widely on the philosophy of media and science; speculative philosophy (especially Whitehead); design philosophy, history, and practice; and critical and speculative theories of computational media. In his creative practice, Nocek draws on social and speculative design and the material arts and sciences to design techniques for activating collective critique and imagination. His work has been performed and exhibited internationally.
Nocek is the co-editor of The Lure of Whitehead and has just completed a manuscript titled "Molecular Capture: Biology, Animation, and the Design of Governance." Nocek is currently working on two book projects: the first project addresses computational governance and the emergence of new regimes of design expertise, and the second project reimagines the role of mythology within speculative design philosophy. Nocek is a Visiting Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Study and is the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Visiting Professor.