Greg Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The 400 Genders
This article offers an analysis and critique of Kadji Amin's 2022 article "We Are All Nonbinary: A Brief History of Accidents." Drawing on Tim Dean's theorization of the difference between sexual categories and types, and Leo Bersani's theorization of sociability, this article argues that gender need not be understood as genealogical, as Amin asserts, but rather can be understood as (increasingly) sociable, presenting a challenge for coalitional …
Lust Room
Over the past decade, liberals have rallied around the cause of gender-inclusive public restrooms, putatively as a way to provide trans and gender-nonconforming people with access to safe facilities, while also building a social movement for gender freedom. At the same time, liberals have remained largely silent on the ongoing surveillance, harassment, assault, arrest, and public shaming of men who cruise public restrooms. How might we make sense…
Antisocial Media
This book addresses popular and academic concerns that the institution of work is being irreparably damaged by digital/media technologies. The book considers three specific concerns (each in a separate chapter): 1) that all jobs may soon be automated out of existence, 2) that the sharing economy will degrade the few jobs that remain, and 3) that services like Facebook and Instagram are turning leisure into work, exploiting users in their so-calle…
Antisocial Media
Through the Looking Glass
A number of scholars have recently argued that the selfie needs to be understood outside of the discourse of narcissism. Rather than leaving this discourse behind, this article focuses on the 'hype' of selfies as narcissistic in order to identify and ultimately trouble the political unconscious of this diagnosis, and to ask, what is the problem of narcissism such that it can serve as a means of devaluing, and what kind of politics might we find i…
Antisocial media
This article examines the normative underpinnings of dystopianism in popular writing about the internet. Through textual analysis, dystopian concerns are shown to be motivated by shared normative preoccupations: that internet users are irresponsible, that they do not sufficiently value work, and that the pursuit of pleasure online interrupts and impedes users’ desire and ability to become responsible subjects. Building on the antisocial thesis in…
Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies
Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies Greg Goldberg (bio) Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010 Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect Washington: Zero Books, 2010 Jussi Parikka’s Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 Media/cultural studies occupies a rare methodological position within and between the humanitie…
Rethinking the public/virtual sphere
Responding to the long-standing interest of new media scholars in online participation as a mechanism for political and cultural democracy and empowerment, this article elaborates a critique of online participation. It examines the ways in which online participation has been economized at a fundamental level — the level at which data is transmitted — and argues that this economization draws into question the viability of a public/virtual sphere p…
Losses and Returns
Rethinking the public/virtual sphere
Responding to the long-standing interest of new media scholars in online participation as a mechanism for political and cultural democracy and empowerment, this article elaborates a critique of online participation. It examines the ways in which online participation has been economized at a fundamental level — the level at which data is transmitted — and argues that this economization draws into question the viability of a public/virtual sphere p…
Antisocial media
This article examines the normative underpinnings of dystopianism in popular writing about the internet. Through textual analysis, dystopian concerns are shown to be motivated by shared normative preoccupations: that internet users are irresponsible, that they do not sufficiently value work, and that the pursuit of pleasure online interrupts and impedes users’ desire and ability to become responsible subjects. Building on the antisocial thesis in…
The 400 Genders
This article offers an analysis and critique of Kadji Amin's 2022 article "We Are All Nonbinary: A Brief History of Accidents." Drawing on Tim Dean's theorization of the difference between sexual categories and types, and Leo Bersani's theorization of sociability, this article argues that gender need not be understood as genealogical, as Amin asserts, but rather can be understood as (increasingly) sociable, presenting a challenge for coalitional …
Through the Looking Glass
A number of scholars have recently argued that the selfie needs to be understood outside of the discourse of narcissism. Rather than leaving this discourse behind, this article focuses on the 'hype' of selfies as narcissistic in order to identify and ultimately trouble the political unconscious of this diagnosis, and to ask, what is the problem of narcissism such that it can serve as a means of devaluing, and what kind of politics might we find i…
Losses and Returns
Rethinking the public/virtual sphere
Responding to the long-standing interest of new media scholars in online participation as a mechanism for political and cultural democracy and empowerment, this article elaborates a critique of online participation. It examines the ways in which online participation has been economized at a fundamental level — the level at which data is transmitted — and argues that this economization draws into question the viability of a public/virtual sphere p…
Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies
Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies Greg Goldberg (bio) Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010 Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect Washington: Zero Books, 2010 Jussi Parikka’s Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 Media/cultural studies occupies a rare methodological position within and between the humanitie…
Antisocial media
This article examines the normative underpinnings of dystopianism in popular writing about the internet. Through textual analysis, dystopian concerns are shown to be motivated by shared normative preoccupations: that internet users are irresponsible, that they do not sufficiently value work, and that the pursuit of pleasure online interrupts and impedes users’ desire and ability to become responsible subjects. Building on the antisocial thesis in…
Through the Looking Glass
A number of scholars have recently argued that the selfie needs to be understood outside of the discourse of narcissism. Rather than leaving this discourse behind, this article focuses on the 'hype' of selfies as narcissistic in order to identify and ultimately trouble the political unconscious of this diagnosis, and to ask, what is the problem of narcissism such that it can serve as a means of devaluing, and what kind of politics might we find i…
Antisocial Media
Antisocial Media
This book addresses popular and academic concerns that the institution of work is being irreparably damaged by digital/media technologies. The book considers three specific concerns (each in a separate chapter): 1) that all jobs may soon be automated out of existence, 2) that the sharing economy will degrade the few jobs that remain, and 3) that services like Facebook and Instagram are turning leisure into work, exploiting users in their so-calle…
The 400 Genders
This article offers an analysis and critique of Kadji Amin's 2022 article "We Are All Nonbinary: A Brief History of Accidents." Drawing on Tim Dean's theorization of the difference between sexual categories and types, and Leo Bersani's theorization of sociability, this article argues that gender need not be understood as genealogical, as Amin asserts, but rather can be understood as (increasingly) sociable, presenting a challenge for coalitional …
Lust Room
Over the past decade, liberals have rallied around the cause of gender-inclusive public restrooms, putatively as a way to provide trans and gender-nonconforming people with access to safe facilities, while also building a social movement for gender freedom. At the same time, liberals have remained largely silent on the ongoing surveillance, harassment, assault, arrest, and public shaming of men who cruise public restrooms. How might we make sense…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business & Economics (2 works)