C Ingraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 45668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Ingraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ingraham |
| SIGNATURE | INGRAHAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9093-340X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asignifying Animacies in the Home
This article considers some ways that encounters with everyday objects in a home can generate a feeling of intimacy. The emerging range of “smart” devices marketed to exploit personal connections with the appurtenances of domestic spaces, we argue, effectively make the home into a platform for such intimacy. That intimacy is often achieved through the implied animacy of objects that might otherwise be regarded as asignifying, thereby enabling mea…
Tree Pose (Affect Theory as Media Theory)
This essay engages with Lauren Berlant’s scholarship by considering its contributions to media theory. Despite Berlant’s beloved following and many key impacts on critical theory, affect theory, and otherwise, media theory is not typically among the first things that come to mind about her work. By reading Berlant’s interest in affect as conceptually homologous with the interest of more material media theorists in media as conditions of being, th…
The privilege of taken for grantedness
This essay makes a case for more critical inquiry in mobile media research around the privilege of taken for grantedness. As a critical supplement to Richard Ling’s important work on the taken for granted dispersion and embedment of technologies such as the mobile phone or automobile into everyday life, we examine the precarity that such reliance involves. Taking certain media for granted makes other, more invisible vulnerabilities harder to see …
Immersive storytelling and affective ethnography in virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) storytelling, particularly in its nonfictional modes, promises a sensory immersion among others whose lives and ways of being a privileged viewer might not otherwise experience. In this essay, by focusing on the Emmy-nominated 2018 VR film Traveling While Black, we explore how the immersive power of VR storytelling can enact ethnographic encounters premised less on the impulse to extract meaning from other people and their wa…
New normals, from talk to gesture
Despite all the news coverage and online chatter about the repercussions of COVID-19, the pandemic has underscored the material limitations of public discourse to redress a health crisis of such magnitude. No amount of talk or deliberation will cure a virus of this scale. If part of the work of cultural studies is to identify the ways a given conjuncture shapes and delimits the felt experience of everyday life, then one charge of our work now is …
The Present as Platform
Recent interest in platform studies has called attention to the ways technologies both afford and constrain creative ways of participating in social and cultural life. Digital platforms have become adept at collecting historical data and using it not just to predict future outcomes, but to produce the present through cultivated expectations of what it will have been. By exploring the case of amateur sound-recording media such as the mixtape, the …
Notes from the Polar Night
Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time. Each entry is composed of 113 words to reflect the number of days without light in Longyearbyen during the winter of my visit. Through a mixture of ethnographic obs…
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Serendipity as cultural technique
In a time when personalised newsfeeds and automated recommendations foreclose the exposure people have to political, cultural and social encounters outside their existing predilections, it is more important than ever to think about the ways we come across the unexpected, online and off. This essay accordingly explores the shape of serendipity in a time so bent on personalisation and findability that our techniques of discovery have attained great…
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
Competition or exhibition? The Olympic arts and cultural policy rhetoric
Though they are widely forgotten today, the modern Olympic Games once offered competitive medals for art. This tradition, which lasted through the seven summer Games held from 1912 to 1948, found artists competing for gold much as athletes do now. These artists represented their nation in judged competitive events showcasing artistic works. In its initial form, the ‘pentathlon of the muses,’ as it was called, included competitive events in Archit…
The Archivist and Autobiographer
Drawing from its author's experience as Wayne Booth's archivist, this essay explores the rhetorical and performative relationship between an archive and its subject's legacy. Archives are fixed collections of historical artifacts that preserve an evidentiary “truth” about their subjects; meanwhile, they are unstable and dynamic spaces where the past is only imperfectly reanimated through a researcher's rhetorical invention. Using Booth's archive …
Serendipity as cultural technique
In a time when personalised newsfeeds and automated recommendations foreclose the exposure people have to political, cultural and social encounters outside their existing predilections, it is more important than ever to think about the ways we come across the unexpected, online and off. This essay accordingly explores the shape of serendipity in a time so bent on personalisation and findability that our techniques of discovery have attained great…
The privilege of taken for grantedness
This essay makes a case for more critical inquiry in mobile media research around the privilege of taken for grantedness. As a critical supplement to Richard Ling’s important work on the taken for granted dispersion and embedment of technologies such as the mobile phone or automobile into everyday life, we examine the precarity that such reliance involves. Taking certain media for granted makes other, more invisible vulnerabilities harder to see …
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
The Archivist and Autobiographer
Drawing from its author's experience as Wayne Booth's archivist, this essay explores the rhetorical and performative relationship between an archive and its subject's legacy. Archives are fixed collections of historical artifacts that preserve an evidentiary “truth” about their subjects; meanwhile, they are unstable and dynamic spaces where the past is only imperfectly reanimated through a researcher's rhetorical invention. Using Booth's archive …
The Archivist and Autobiographer
Drawing from its author's experience as Wayne Booth's archivist, this essay explores the rhetorical and performative relationship between an archive and its subject's legacy. Archives are fixed collections of historical artifacts that preserve an evidentiary “truth” about their subjects; meanwhile, they are unstable and dynamic spaces where the past is only imperfectly reanimated through a researcher's rhetorical invention. Using Booth's archive …
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
Competition or exhibition? The Olympic arts and cultural policy rhetoric
Though they are widely forgotten today, the modern Olympic Games once offered competitive medals for art. This tradition, which lasted through the seven summer Games held from 1912 to 1948, found artists competing for gold much as athletes do now. These artists represented their nation in judged competitive events showcasing artistic works. In its initial form, the ‘pentathlon of the muses,’ as it was called, included competitive events in Archit…
Serendipity as cultural technique
In a time when personalised newsfeeds and automated recommendations foreclose the exposure people have to political, cultural and social encounters outside their existing predilections, it is more important than ever to think about the ways we come across the unexpected, online and off. This essay accordingly explores the shape of serendipity in a time so bent on personalisation and findability that our techniques of discovery have attained great…
The Present as Platform
Recent interest in platform studies has called attention to the ways technologies both afford and constrain creative ways of participating in social and cultural life. Digital platforms have become adept at collecting historical data and using it not just to predict future outcomes, but to produce the present through cultivated expectations of what it will have been. By exploring the case of amateur sound-recording media such as the mixtape, the …
Notes from the Polar Night
Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time. Each entry is composed of 113 words to reflect the number of days without light in Longyearbyen during the winter of my visit. Through a mixture of ethnographic obs…
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Immersive storytelling and affective ethnography in virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) storytelling, particularly in its nonfictional modes, promises a sensory immersion among others whose lives and ways of being a privileged viewer might not otherwise experience. In this essay, by focusing on the Emmy-nominated 2018 VR film Traveling While Black, we explore how the immersive power of VR storytelling can enact ethnographic encounters premised less on the impulse to extract meaning from other people and their wa…
New normals, from talk to gesture
Despite all the news coverage and online chatter about the repercussions of COVID-19, the pandemic has underscored the material limitations of public discourse to redress a health crisis of such magnitude. No amount of talk or deliberation will cure a virus of this scale. If part of the work of cultural studies is to identify the ways a given conjuncture shapes and delimits the felt experience of everyday life, then one charge of our work now is …
Tree Pose (Affect Theory as Media Theory)
This essay engages with Lauren Berlant’s scholarship by considering its contributions to media theory. Despite Berlant’s beloved following and many key impacts on critical theory, affect theory, and otherwise, media theory is not typically among the first things that come to mind about her work. By reading Berlant’s interest in affect as conceptually homologous with the interest of more material media theorists in media as conditions of being, th…
The privilege of taken for grantedness
This essay makes a case for more critical inquiry in mobile media research around the privilege of taken for grantedness. As a critical supplement to Richard Ling’s important work on the taken for granted dispersion and embedment of technologies such as the mobile phone or automobile into everyday life, we examine the precarity that such reliance involves. Taking certain media for granted makes other, more invisible vulnerabilities harder to see …
Asignifying Animacies in the Home
This article considers some ways that encounters with everyday objects in a home can generate a feeling of intimacy. The emerging range of “smart” devices marketed to exploit personal connections with the appurtenances of domestic spaces, we argue, effectively make the home into a platform for such intimacy. That intimacy is often achieved through the implied animacy of objects that might otherwise be regarded as asignifying, thereby enabling mea…
Art (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Internet privacy (4 works)